Issue Contents:
Afraid to Open the Door!
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee
- Pencils: Joe Maneely
- Inks: Joe Maneely
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Artie Simek
Story Notes
John Hayes is a ghost on the cover, but not in the story.
Afraid to Open the Door!
Storyline
A thief trying to rob a reclusive scientist finds him in a room with two doors. The scientist tells him if he leaves through the wrong door he will be trapped in a shadow world of strange creatures so the criminal decides to wait until someone else enters by one of the doors so that he knows which one leads back to the ordinary world.
Credits
- Pencils: Dan Loprino
- Inks: Dan Loprino
- Script: Jack Oleck
- Letters: Joe Letterese
The House That Cried!
Storyline
A hobo tries to rob an old woman in a dilapidated house who turns out to be a ghost.
Credits
- Script: Carl Wessler
- Pencils: Christopher Rule
- Inks: Christopher Rule
- Letters: Artie Simek
Story Notes
Wessler script per Biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol. 31, No. 2, February 2020. Pencil and ink credits of J. Makowski ? changed based on information from Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion list.
The Ragged Man
Storyline
A heartless businessman gets what's coming to him when the geiger counter he keeps on his yacht goes off and he spends all his money buying worthless land because he thinks that there is a fortune in uranium underwater. It turns out that there was a nuclear sub under his yacht at the time.
Credits
- Pencils: Richard Doxsee
- Inks: Richard Doxsee
The Terrible Tree!
Storyline
A man weakens a large redwood tree so that it will fall on his farm and he can collect on the insurance policy. Objects made from the tree pursue vengeance upon him, until he finds himself trapped on a boat made of the tree out at sea.
Credits
- Pencils: John Forte
- Inks: John Forte
The Perfectly Frightened Man
Storyline
A man is convinced by his wife that he is the victim of a hoax designed to make him think he has inherited sorcerous powers, but when he says "I'll be a monkey's uncle", he turns into one.
Credits
- Pencils: Robert Q. Sale
- Inks: Robert Q. Sale
- Letters: Ray Holloway
Story Notes
Robert Q. Sale’s signature appears on the cake mix packet in the first panel.
The Missing Film
Storyline
A government agent retrieves a classified microfilm stolen to be given to enemy agents, and is helped by a magic bridge.
Credits
- Pencils: John Severin
- Inks: John Severin
Story Notes
Text story with illustration.
When the Curtain Falls!
Storyline
A jealous stagehand swaps a real dagger for a rubber prop hoping that his actor rival will stab himself and he will be free to pursue his love interest without competition. The actor only scratches himself, however, and when the stagehand becomes trapped he fails to free himself in time armed with merely a rubber dagger.
Credits
- Pencils: Bernard Baily
- Inks: Bernard Baily