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Kill, Clown, Kill!
Credits
- Pencils: Bill Everett
- Inks: Bill Everett
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
Story Notes
Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
Kill, Clown, Kill!
Storyline
A clown kills his clown rival so he can have his fame and his girlfriend. He tries to find a plastic surgeon to alter his looks so he will appear as the dead man, but fails. The police track him back to circus where he is shot resisting arrest. He dies at the foot of the woman he professes his love to as he realizes she is blind.
Credits
- Pencils: Harry Anderson
- Inks: Harry Anderson
The Witch of Landor
Storyline
A duke forces a witch to call up his ancestor so that he can ask the ghost where the castle's hidden treasure is. When the witch does as she is bidden, the ghost replies that the treasure location was a secret even in his time and that the duke will have to seek further back. The witch calls up several spirits in succession without the knowledge of the treasure's location until she calls up a gorilla which strangles the duke.
Credits
- Pencils: Rebecca Shiets
- Inks: Rebecca Shiets
- Letters: Morrie Kuramoto (uncertain)
The Twins
Statement of ownership (1)
Credits
- Script:
Story Notes
Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912: For 1 October 1952. Stan Lee, Editor; Martin Goodman, Managing Editor; Monroe Froehlich, Jr., Business Manager.
The Gal Who Talked Too Much!
Storyline
A (mad?) scientist looking for 'volunteers' to spend the rest of their lives buried in a time capsule gives two sleeping pills to a husband and his blabber-mouth wife, lying to the both of them that they can be rid of each other if they administer the pill to their spouse. While they are asleep, he transfers both of them to the time capsule.
Story Notes
Possible Brown pencils per Nick Caputo, July 2013, who notes that while the inking obscures the pencils there are a number of figures and poses that look like Brown's style. Art identification confirmed by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Planet of Death!
Storyline
Aliens find Earth air poisonous so they observe a man haranguing a crowd about flying saucers through a telescope.
Credits
- Pencils: Howie Post
- Inks: Howie Post
- Letters: Ben Oda (uncertain)
I Was Locked in a... Haunted House!
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee
- Pencils: Joe Maneely
- Inks: Joe Maneely
Story Notes
Plot is similar to the Ditko story "I Speak of the Haunted House", in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #42 and the Heck story "I Spent a Night in a Haunted House", in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #80. Appearing are boys reading comic books including Marvel Tales, Mystic, Uncanny Tales; others appear on a newsstand, including [Adventures into] Weird Worlds, Battle, Combat Casey, Combat Kelly, [Journey into] Unknown Worlds, Man Comics, Spy [Cases], Strange Tales, Suspense and War Comics Most notes by Tom Lammers.