Issue Details

Issue	#4
Published	April 1949
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Stan Lee

Cover Details

Genre	superhero; fantasy; romance
Pencils	Ken Bald ?
Inks	Ken Bald ?

12 page Venus story "Whom the Gods Would Destroy!"

Characters	Venus; Apollo; Mars; Bacchus; Sampson (introduction)
Genre	superhero; fantasy; romance
Pencils	Ken Bald ?
Inks	Pete Riss ?
Notes	Inker credit from Dr. Michael Vassallo, via the GCD Error List (21 Dedcember 2004), challenging the original indexer's crediting of Inks: Jim Mooney.

1 page text article "A Letter to Our Readers and Their Parents!"

Synopsis	Pro-comics editorial. Information on this sequence from the Atlas Tales website.
Letters	typeset

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "The Greatest Romance Tales Ever Told!"

Synopsis

House ad for Marvel's romance titles; includes cover logos for My Own Romance, Love Tales, and Ideal Love and Romance. Information on this sequence from the Atlas Tales website.

1 page text story "Out of This World"

Genre	humor
Script	Stan Lee ?
Letters	typeset

6 page Venus story "It's All In the Mind!"

Characters	Venus; Dr. Dingle (villain; introduction)
Genre	superhero; fantasy; romance
Pencils	Dan DeCarlo ? (p 1); Ken Bald ? (pp 2-6)
Inks	Dan DeCarlo ? (p 1); George Klein ? (pp 2-6)
Notes	Art credits from Dr. Michael Vassallo via the GCD Error List (21 December 2004), challenging the original indexer's crediting of Inks: Syd Shores.

1 page Hey Look! story

Genre	satire
Script	Harvey Kurtzman
Pencils	Harvey Kurtzman
Inks	Harvey Kurtzman
Letters	Harvey Kurtzman

6 page Venus story "Oh, Doctor!"

Characters	Venus
Genre	superhero; fantasy; romance
Pencils	Ken Bald ?
Inks	George Klein
Notes	Art credits from Dr. Michael Vassallo via the GCD Error List (21 December 2004). Original indexer credited Pencils: Syd Shores and Inks: Jim Mooney.