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Issue Details

Issue #8
Published May 1953
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "He Who Hesitates!"

Pencils Russ Heath
Inks Russ Heath

6 page story "The Tough Guy"

Synopsis A muscleman gets pistol whipped and winds up in the hospital. He overhears a conversation between two doctors about a serum that toughens the body so he decides to take it and turn to crime with his powerful body. After he collapses the doctors inform him he has a throat infection that will kill him shortly now that his body is too powerful for medicine to effect.
Genre horror
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely
Reprinted in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #6 (August 1973)

5 page story "Indoor Sport"

Synopsis A female ghost acquires pictures of men from potential suitors and throws darts into them to inflict pain and death upon the men in revenge for a man who once jilted her.
Pencils Sam Kweskin
Inks Sam Kweskin
Reprinted in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #6 (August 1973) [-1 page]

3 page story "Willie Brown Is Out To Get Me!"

Synopsis People tell a thug that Willie Brown is after him, which terrifies him, since he shot Willie Brown a week ago and he is now a zombie.
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Al Luster
Inks Al Luster
Reprinted In Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #22, June 1974

2 page text story "Time Reversal"

4 page story "He Who Hesitates"

Synopsis A hesitant professor finally decides to kill the romeo who's moving in on his wife, but as usual, he waits a little too long and the other man pushes him off the cliff instead so that he can marry the professor's wife.
Reprinted in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #6 (August 1973)

5 page story "The Strange Case of Mr. Wimple"

Synopsis A thief attacks a man who always carries a box around on his shoulder with a blackjack and kills him. When he gets the box open, he is startled to see that he has killed one head but not the other and runs into the path of an oncoming train. His intended victim gets up and procures a box for the dead head.
Reprinted in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #6 (August 1973)