| Issue | #15 |
| Published | April 1954 |
| Frequency | bi-monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Phil Kaltenbach, via the GCD Error List (15 March 2006) challenges the original indexer's crediting of Russ Heath with the pencils and inks. |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2009) |
| Synopsis | When a man enters a bar and, as a gag, offers a skeptic a contract for his soul for one million dollars the skeptic signs it. No one sees the stranger leave, but a coincidence leaves the signer one million dollars from a will. As time goes by, the contract worries away at him distorting his personality from likable to hostile. His employees hate him and his family leave him. One day he receives a visitor and it turns out to be the man with the contract looking for work. The skeptic is so angered that his life has been changed so dramatically by a practical joke that he seizes a heavy candlestick and kills the stranger. Now he feels that he has sold his soul to the Devil in actuality and walks out into the dark for Satan to claim him. |
| Pencils | Paul Reinman |
| Inks | Paul Reinman |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2009) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Reprinted | from Amazing Detective Stories (Marvel, 1950 series) #13 (July 1952) [originally titled "The Strange Fingerprints"] |
| Synopsis | A man finally works up the nerve to strangle his cheating wife but an atomic war breaks out, and the two of them find their bodies fused together by atomic radiation. |
| Pencils | Vic Carrabotta |
| Inks | Vic Carrabotta |
| Reprinted | in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #4; in Curse of the Weird (Marvel, 1993 series) #3 (February 1994); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2009) |
| Synopsis | An escaped convict vows to haunt a hermit who has murdered him after ascertaining where the stolen loot was buried. When the police show to the hermit's hut they gun him down because, unknown to him, his face is now that of the man he killed. |
| Pencils | Al Luster |
| Inks | Al Luster |
| Reprinted | in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #4; in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2009) |
| Synopsis | In 1686 a man asks a woman to marry him and is turned down so he plants evidence to get her condemned as a witch. They pursue her through the forest and the man hurts his leg so they leave him behind to pursue her. She returns to the man to get revenge and says "So you called me a witch? Well, you were close!" as she bares her vampire fangs. |
| Pencils | Mannie Banks |
| Inks | Mannie Banks |
| Reprinted | in Vampire Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #2 (October 1973) [re-titled "Witch Hunt"]; in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2009) |
| Synopsis | A Martian sleeper agent is eradicated when his usefulness is ended due to incarceration in an asylum. He was committed because he had tried to obtain a passport and could provide no official documentation that he existed. |
| Reprinted | in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #8 (December 1973); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2009) |