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Issue Details

Issue #10
Published March 1952
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Inks Christopher Rule ?
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5 page story "The Man Who Owned a Ghost!"

Synopsis A dead man summons a ghost to haunt his wife's house so her guests will leave and he can kill her, but she confesses to him that he is already dead because she killed him the previous evening and he realizes that the ghost he has summoned is his own.
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett
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Reprinted in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #6; in Curse of the Weird (Marvel, 1993 series) #1

2 page text story "Time-Stream Rescue"

Characters Harold Bevinson; Prof. Rall; Gen. George Washington (cameo)
Synopsis A scientist and his friend build a time machine and witness several historical events, almost accidentally killing George Washington in the process.
Genre science fiction
Letters typeset
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Reprinted in Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #23 (December 1953) [as "The First Time Machine"]; in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #9 (May 1960); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

5 page story "I Solved the Problem"

Pencils Mac Pakula
Inks Mac Pakula
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3 page story "The Walking Dead!"

Synopsis A scientist succeeds in reanimating the dead and then kills himself out of regret.
Genre Horror
Pencils Al Eadeh (signed)
Inks Al Eadeh (signed)
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Reprinted in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #31; in Book of the Dead (Marvel, 1993 series) #3

5 page story "Melvin and the Martian"

Pencils Joe Sinnott
Inks Joe Sinnott

5 page story "Only an Insect"

Synopsis A scientist's assistant who tortures insects for kicks gets his just deserts when he knocks over a shrinking compound which then affects him.
Pencils Pete Morisi
Inks Pete Morisi
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