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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: Marvel
Title: Strange Tales
Page Count: 36
Genre: Horror-suspense
Era: Golden
Cover Price: 0.10 USD
Cover Date: April 1954
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Country: United States
A Demon offers a simple man sweeping up in a bar a wish. Knowing that the usual price for this type of offer is his soul or life, he starts to turn the Demon down. But the Demon assured him that neither of those things would be the price. So he agrees and asks for the love of a beautiful woman. When he brings this woman back to the bar, the Demon showed up and demanded his price...the life of the woman or he can go back to his simple life. He chooses to go back and the woman is left wondering why the simple man sweeping up in the bar has a strange smile while working.; When a hermit refuses to vacate his property and plants mines to halt state bulldozers, they construct the highway with a tunnel going beneath his property. This causes his house to collapse and when he investigates, he's struck and killed by a car.; A woman develops claustrophobia after she and her husband smother her aunt in a closet for her money.; Death views the Earth as a garden and finds the mushroom cloud of the atomic bomb a beautiful addition to his garden.