Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #1

In "The Strange Men," a captured Navy pilot finds himself face-to-face with Doctor Lemut, a sinister figure from Saturn plotting Earth's conquest. As the pilot narrowly escapes, he races to warn his superior—only to discover the man is already in league with the alien threat.

In "A Call in the Night," a TV repairman is haunted by a dream in which his wife is captured and encased in bronze by a mysterious figure. When he wakes, the dream’s chilling details begin to mirror reality with terrifying precision.

In "Trapped in the Tomb!", a scientist's mysterious invention—a box capable of teleporting a person's spirit—becomes the centerpiece of a deadly game of deception and desperation. When his friend borrows it to fake an alibi for a murder, the plan unravels in terrifying ways as both men and their wives confront the consequences of their choices.

In "The Pin!", a desperate scientist’s quest to reverse aging leads to a terrifying transformation—when he becomes an infant, he devises a deadly method to reclaim his youth by transferring years onto others through a blood-matched pin. Now, with no body to call his own, he hunts his victims with cold precision, leaving only the faintest trace of a pin in their skin.

In "The Shadow!", a man wakes to the chilling realization that something is wrong—his shadow is missing. After a brutal fall leaves him dead, he stumbles through the world unaware, only noticing the absence of his own reflection. When he finally sees his shadow darting away, he gives chase, drawn through the quiet streets and into a forgotten cemetery, where the truth of his new existence begins to unravel.

In "Voodoo," a man's desperate gamble with dark magic unravels when he tries to undo a spell he cast to kill his wife—only to learn she’s inherited a fortune. When she discovers his betrayal, she turns the tables, enlisting the same voodoo practitioner to deliver a chilling lesson.

In "The Evil Eye," a desperate man named Chambers unleashes a colossal, otherworldly eye with the power to kill with a single glance. As he uses its terrifying might to sow chaos, the eye begins to turn on its summoner, resenting its forced servitude on Earth.

In "The Man on the Beach!", Robert finds himself thrust into the distant future, where he’s tasked with saving humanity from the mysterious Greenies. After Zord shrinks the entire Earth to microscopic size and places it in Robert’s care, he returns to his own time—only to accidentally drop the tiny world onto a beach, setting off a chain of unraveling realities.

In "The Room Without a Door," a disillusioned scientist abandons reason for the occult, drawn to a woman whose lineage ties her to a witch executed in 1692. After witnessing her summon her ancestor’s ghost, he seizes her home to uncover the legend of a time-warping chamber known only as "the room without a door." When he opens a mysterious box lined with wallpaper that mimics a room, he’s thrust into the past—bound to a stake at the very moment of her execution.

In "The Little Man Who Was There," Dennis Ames finds himself haunted by a peculiar, fleeting figure just before each near-fatal accident—until he begins to suspect the truth behind the apparition. As the line between coincidence and inevitability blurs, he faces a chilling realization that the little man isn't just a harbinger, but something far more inescapable.

In "My Brother Harry," a man's fragile grip on reality unravels when his brother claims to hear their dead mother’s voice—something that ignites a violent rift between them. After a brutal beating and a failed murder attempt by his wife, Philip returns home convinced he’s escaped death, only to find his brother’s calm, knowing presence more terrifying than any ghost.

In "The Eyes of March!", a man’s life unravels when he acquires a pair of strange glasses that make everyone around him appear to have his own face. When he shatters them in desperation, seeking a replacement, the next pair he receives twist reality again—this time forcing everyone to look like the mysterious lenscrafter who made them.

In "The Back Door!", a desperate salesman knocks on the door of a funeral parlor, hoping to close a deal—only to find the customers already dead. They tell him they buy nothing and stay for free, but when he insists on joining their ranks, they lead him to a coffin of his own.

In "The Killers!", a paranoid reporter becomes convinced his boss is a mindless killer after she removes all mirrors from the office—only to discover her reason is far more mundane than the horror he imagines. As his grip on reality slips, he begins to suspect everyone around him, unaware that he himself may be the true monster, driven by a virus that warps the mind and erases reflection.

In "Fame!", a desperate aspiring actor, broken by endless rejection, takes a final, reckless stand on a city building’s ledge, donning a tuxedo bought with his last dollars to deliver a performance that might just make him known—forever.

In "Blind Date," a man’s chance encounter at a bar takes a terrifying turn when a striking redhead in a convertible offers him a ride—though not the one he expects. As she speeds toward a cliffside, the truth of her identity begins to unravel, revealing a chilling secret that turns the night into a desperate race against fate.

In "The Man from Mars," a broke dreamer stumbles upon a rocket labeled "Be the First to See Mars" and, thinking it's a movie promotion, climbs aboard in hopes of free entertainment. What follows is a wild plunge into the unknown—when he wakes, he's no longer on Earth, but trapped in a Martian zoo, far from home and utterly out of his depth.

In "The Voice of Doom!", a ruthless publisher installs listening devices in every cubicle to monitor his employees, ready to fire anyone who speaks ill of him. But when a chilling voice from the speaker system warns him of eternal torment in Hell, his smug control begins to unravel—until a grinning skull emerges from the device to claim him.

In "The Hidden Head," a desperate plastic surgeon in the collapsing ruins of Berlin is forced by a ruthless Nazi officer to alter his appearance—transforming the officer into a chilling likeness of Adolf Hitler to escape justice. With the stakes rising and the line between identity and deception blurring, the surgeon must confront the monstrous consequences of his own skill.