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Issue Details

Issue #7
Published June 1957
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "The Haunted Picture!"

Pencils John Severin
Inks John Severin
Notes Cover pencils and inks credits from Steve Grant via the GCD Error List (11 August 2007)

4 page story "The Secret of the Haunted Picture"

Synopsis An artist sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for one year of success. At the end of that year, he finds himself entrapped in one of his own paintings.
Pencils Angelo Torres
Inks Angelo Torres
Notes Art credits from www.atlastales.com.
Reprinted in Beware (Marvel, 1973 series) #7 (March 1974)

4 page story "Hide and Shriek"

Characters George Karus; Joe Ricardo; Rita; Bill; Khala
Synopsis A voodoo priest takes his revenge on a man who got him expulsed from his tribe by playing a practical joke.
Genre Occult
Pencils John Forte (signed)
Inks John Forte (signed)
Notes Forte credits by Michael J. Vassallo, 2002-12-03 (Per Sandell ed.), Job number and signature of artists from the Atlas Tales website.
Reprinted in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #12 (August 1974)

4 page story "The Living Shadows!"

Synopsis A medium brings the spirits of two living people, a smuggler and his intended bride, to meet with men who want to dig up his hidden gold. The smuggler's body follows its spirit and snatches the gold out from under the men's noses and disappears but the spirit of the intended bride falls in love with one of the men. She meets up with him years later in the flesh during the London blitz.
Pencils Joe Orlando
Inks Joe Orlando
Reprinted in Frankenstein (Marvel, 1973 series) #8 (January 1974)

3 page story "It Happened in the Attic!"

Synopsis A man goes back in time and kills his ancestor.
Pencils Frank Bolle
Inks Frank Bolle
Reprinted in Marvel Chillers (Marvel, 1975 series) #1 (October 1975)

2 page text story "Mystery Within The Walls"

Characters Sam Catlett; Caspar; Ben Rump; Bill Rump
Synopsis A local millionaire secludes himself from his old bowling buddies as he becomes wealthier, but they discover that he misses them so much that he has invented a robotic bowling alley.
Genre science fiction
Letters typeset
Reprinted from Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #45 (January 1956) [originally titled "Mystery Mansion"]

4 page story "Too Smart to Live!"

Synopsis A criminal comes across a prospector who develops amnesia from a fall and convinces the fellow that he's the wanted crook by switching wallets with him. His ruse works too well, however, as the prospector begins to act like the hunted fugitive he believes himself to be.
Pencils Ed Winiarsky
Inks Ed Winiarsky

4 page story "The Man Who Can't be Stopped"

Synopsis A man builds a machine that will let him experience the thoughts of all people everywhere in order to gain power, but his mind can't handle the overload and shuts down.
Pencils Joe Orlando
Inks Joe Orlando