Marvel Tales #99

Marvel Tales #99 promises four tales of the strange and unsettling, headlined by "The Secret of the Wax Museum!" — and the cover by Sol Brodsky and Christopher Rule sets the mood perfectly. The main scene depicts a violent confrontation inside a wax museum, where a man in a red shirt grapples with another figure while a sinister blue-coated man raises an axe nearby and a woman in red looks on — all surrounded by eerie wax figures, including one labeled "The Ax Fiend." Sidebar panels tease three more stories — "Terror in the Streets," "The Brain," and "The Man Who Could Not Die" — making this 1951 ten-cent anthology a genuinely creepy little package of Marvel mystery.