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Issue Details

Issue #12
Published February 1953
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Index revised with data from atlastales.com.

Cover Details - "My Friend the Ghost!"

Pencils Russ Heath
Inks Russ Heath

5 page story "What Happened to Mister Snively?"

Script Stan Lee
Pencils Russ Heath
Inks Russ Heath
Notes The same story as the Ditko story in Tales of Suspense #30
Reprinted in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #5

2 page text story "M'Batu -- Giant Jelly Fish"

Letters typeset

5 page story "On the Spot"

Synopsis An actor kills the man who directs the spotlight on stage when he finds out his girlfriend is seeing him. He gets condemned to the chair and escapes, but the spotlight pins him to the wall and the cops open fire. Only after his lifeless body slumps to the ground do the cops realize that there is no one at the spotlight.
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Reprinted in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #5

4 page story "The Diet of Donald Moore"

Synopsis A man uses a chlorophyll spray as a health tonic until he develops plant-like qualities.
Pencils Sam Kweskin
Inks Sam Kweskin
Reprinted in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #5

3 page story "The Gas Man"

Pencils Louis Zansky

6 page story "My Friend the Ghost"

Synopsis A doctor and his friend cook up a plot to acquire the family fortune by the doctor declaring the man dead and then he pretends to return as a ghost and scare the remaining members to death. But the doctor wants all the money and betrays the man by injecting poison into him rather than a drug to make him appear dead, and so he realizes at the end of the story that he actually is a ghost. He kills the doctor.
Pencils Tony DiPreta
Inks Tony DiPreta
Reprinted in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #5