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Issue Details

Issue #18
Published March 1953
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "The Russian Devil!"

6 page story "In Old Baghdad"

Synopsis A woman brought to the city as a slave schemes to become the wife of the Sultan but she is unaware of the the custom of that country to throw the Sultan's wife to the lions when he dies.

3 page story "The Drowning Man"

Synopsis A thief cast overboard mistakes the back of a whale for a raft.

2 page text story "The Perfect Mold"

Letters typeset

4 page story "Tom-Tom!"

Synopsis Natives skin a cruel plantation owner and use him for their drums.

5 page story "Charley's Crime"

Synopsis A thief comes back as a ghost to rob a bank but the ghost of the guard he killed stops him.

5 page story "The Russian Devil"

Synopsis The communist overseer of a labor camp is glad when he is told by his doctor that he has not long to live because he has spent his whole life killing and is weary. Death wants an assistant however and refuses to allow him to rest in peace.