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Issue Details

Issue #19
Published June 1953
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Credits for this issue supplied by www.atlastales.com.

Cover Details - "The Long Wait!"

Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely
Editing Stan Lee ?

5 page story "The Man with a Knife"

Synopsis A knife grinder who only works for hated nobles uses blood on the grindstone to curse the blades so that they will kill with a mind of their own. When he is arrested on suspicion because he is in the area of the stabbing, the jail cook uses the grindstone to sharpen the knife that the grinder will use for his jail meal, and the grinder stabs himself to death with it.
Pencils Gene Colan
Inks Gene Colan

2 page text story "Grim Victory"

Letters typeset

5 page story "Beelzebub!"

Synopsis A man spends twenty years looking for a book that will make the Devil his slave, but he doesn't know that Satan has joined his expedition to make sure he acquires the book first.
Pencils Larry Woromay
Inks Matt Fox

4 page story "The Rivals"

Synopsis Two circus performers despise each other so one makes it so the highwire snaps and the other drains the water out of the barrel underneath the plunge.
Pencils Al Luster
Inks Al Luster

4 page story "The Man from Another World!"

Pencils Robert McCarty
Inks Robert McCarty
Notes The same plot as the first story in Amazing Adult Fantasy #11 except for alien mistakes a convict breaking jail as the dominant form of life and is shot by the guards.

5 page story "The Long Wait"

Pencils Sam Kweskin
Inks Sam Kweskin
Notes The same plot as the last story in Amazing Adult Fantasy #11 except instead of the civil war setting, the story depicts a Russian anarchist who leaves his family's house with the wrong briefcase and the time bomb he was working on blows up his family.