Notes:
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1949, 3rd Series, Vol. 3, No. 1, p. 4, Copyright number: B186409.
Notes:
Story features versions of Stan Lee (Lee Hart) and Martin Goodman (Martin Mansfield) and is an unauthorized (and slightly modified) adaptation of The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H. P. Lovecraft. Other interesting characters are John St. Stengel a publishing partner of Martin Mansfield (possible take off on (Archer St. John). Martin Mansfield's secretary was referred to as Miss Lieber (Stan Lee's birth name was Lieber.)
First Line:
Outside the window a chill wind howled, blowing gusts of rain in sheets down the darkened streets of Long Beach.
Synopsis:
On his deathbed a dying amusement park owner warns his son about something evil occurring at the site of a destroyed fun house that was once a part of the park. That night the son goes to investigate the area and sees large groups of people marching towards the ruins. (The ruins feature a giant demon head on a crumbling cliffside). It turns out that a fortune teller who worked for the father is using the ruins as a base to amass followers through hypnosis. Eventually an earthquake occurs destroying the fortune teller and what is left of the ruins.