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Issue Details

Issue #14
Published April 1953
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Love Story!"

Genre Horror
Pencils Bill Everett (signed)
Inks Bill Everett (signed)

5 page story "Love Story"

Synopsis The wife of an African guide plots with a doctor to murder her husband.
Genre horror
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely
Reprinted in Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #12 (January 1975)

2 page text story "The Whirlpool Of Gairloch"

Characters John Potts; McPherson; Capt. Breslow
Synopsis A jewel thief ignores local superstitions to cross a haunted strait but finds that his disastrous voyage was only a dream when he wakes up with police at the door.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #74 (April 1960)

4 page story "The Saddest Story Ever Told!"

Characters An unnamed research scientist; Martha (his wife); Donald (his son); an unnamed police officer.
Synopsis A scientist discovers a cure for baldness which he claims will "grow hair on a billiard ball". When the men who try the formula remain bald, the scientist loses everything and ends up sleeping rough in a park. Telling his story to a policeman, the scientist claims that the cure DOES work, but not on men. To prove it, he produces a handful of billiard balls - all covered in hair!
Genre Fantasy
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Ed Winiarski
Inks Ed Winiarski
Notes Ed Winiarski credited as "Ed Win".

5 page story "The Revolt of Wilbur Bixby!"

Characters Wilbur Bixby (a henpecked husband); his wife Griselda.
Synopsis A man becomes free of his shrew wife when they travel to Greece and he drinks from a fountain that transforms him into a centaur so he can eat grass and no longer has to depend upon her favor to buy him meals.
Genre occult
Reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #34 (March 1975)

4 page story "The Heat's On!"

Characters Rock Zucco; Gertie Zucco; Crawford; Sam; other members of the crew on the ship Zucco serves on
Synopsis A succubus uses a mirror to blind a sea captain on leave as he attempts to push his homely wife out the top story window so that he tumbles out instead and winds up in Hell stoking the flames the way he used to torture his men.
Genre horror
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Russ Heath
Inks Russ Heath
Reprinted in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #13 (September 1974)

5 page story "Close Shave!"

Characters Crawfish Cobbs; his wife Matilda.
Synopsis A shrew wife finds an electric razor annoying so she demands her husband use a straight razor. She demands he kiss her before he leaves for work, but each time he attempts to do so, she complains of beard stubble and sends him back into the bathroom to shave again. Ultimately, he cuts off his face with the straight razor.
Genre horror
Pencils Fred Kida
Inks Fred Kida
Reprinted in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #12 (August 1974)