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Issue Details

Issue #13
Published October 1952
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes All information on this issue from www.atlastales.com.

Cover Details - "The Witch Woman!/It Waits in the Box!/The Thing in the Graveyard!/The Bookworm!"

Genre horror
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett
Notes Art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

7 page story "Witch Woman"

Synopsis A witch curses her killer with the stipulation that her spirit will enter the body of each maiden that his male descendants fall in love with.

2 page text story "The Thread"

Characters Matt Anderson; Midget Morgan/Count Morgan; Dr. Waynne
Synopsis The mysterious death of a scientist reveals a mystical device and leads to the death of a centuries-old Italian count.
Genre horror
Letters typeset
Notes The events of this story are dated January 8, 1952.
Reprinted in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #21 [as "The Cylinder"]; in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959) #11 (September 1960); in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #73 (October 1961); in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #99 (December 1963); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010)

5 page story "The Thing in the Graveyard"

Synopsis A man marries a woman for ten thousand dollars in insurance money coming from her dead son, but she buys a monument with the money and when he tries to kill her, the monument strangles him.
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Jack Keller

6 page story "It Waits in the Box"

Synopsis An atomic blast creates a horrible monster immune to guns and poison gas so they try to dump it in the sea but curious sailors open the crate against orders.
Pencils Manny Stallman
Inks Manny Stallman
Notes Art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

5 page story "The Bookworms"

Synopsis A man murders a relative for her inheritance but she leaves him nothing but an old book. He sells the book to a dealer for six hundred dollars who neglects to tell him that there are thousand dollar bills throughout the pages.
Script Hank Chapman
Pencils Ed Robbins
Inks Ed Robbins