Marvel Tales July/August 1934, Volume 1 Number 2. Featuring James Allison. This is the first appearance of THE GARDEN OF FEAR.

This publication came with two different covers. (1) a white and green design (2) an orange with green design. The latter contains 4 more pages (a table of contents and editorial scribblings).

Contents

• i • Table of contents (only in the orange edition)
• iii • Editorial Scribblings (Marvel Tales, #2 July/August 1934) • essay by The Editors (only in the orange edition).
• 1 • The Dark Beasts • short story by Frank Belknap Long [as by Frank B. Long, Jr.]
• 1 •  The Dark Beasts • interior artwork by Baziotes
• 11 • The Garden of Fear • [James Allison] • novelette by Robert E. Howard
• 11 •  The Garden of Fear • interior artwork by Frederick Ian Cortiandt
• 30 • Synthetic • short story by Harl Vincent
• 37 • From the Log of the Space-Ship Flammarian • poem by Manly Wade Wellman
• 38 • Antidote • short story by Robert M. Hyatt
• 43 • Conquest • poem by H. Donald Spatz
• 44 • The Torch of Life • short story by Joe W. Skidmore
• 44 •  The Torch of Life • interior artwork by Ferguson
• 51 • A Horror in Profile • short story by Wilfred Blanch Talman

Notes

Editor: William L. Crawford

Saddle stapled, wraps. Page numbers do not include covers.
There is a printing error: pp.13-16 from “The Garden of Fear” were printed as pp.33-36 from “Synthetic”, so the four pages from former story are missing.

Associate Editor and Art Director, L. A. Eshbach.
Artwork credited by initials or signature on the illustrations.