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Issue Details

Issue #24
Published October 1953
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "How Many Times Can You Die?"

6 page story "The Gargoyle!"

Synopsis When the only person who is nice to him is murdered by gargoyles, Quasimodo is blamed and hanged.

4 page story "The Stranger from Space"

Synopsis When a spacecraft lands and a creature emerges, two scientists are at odds with each other on what to do with the being. One thinks it is a threat and should be destroyed but the other stops his attack and helps the creature back to his ship where the two of them blast off. The irony is provided by the fact that the creature is, indeed, hostile.

2 page text story "The Mysterious Painting"

5 page story "Another Man's Shoes"

Synopsis A janitor has a witch cast a spell which will exchange bodies with a man whom he thinks is well off, but the man's beautiful wife divorces him, he finds out he's bankrupt, and finally he gets shot.

3 page story "His Wife Throws Things"

Synopsis This story postulates that all of the flying saucers that humans have been seeing are the results of a giant alien getting mad at her husband and throwing dishes at him which go through the window and head toward Earth.

5 page story "How Many Times Can You Die?"

Synopsis A man has dreams about killing his wife but he gets arrested and executed the same way in the dreams and so loses his nerve. He thinks that he'll take her out on the lake and drown her as there is no capital punishment method analogous to that, but she turns the tables on him, and informs him as he drowns that he talks in his sleep.