Who is…The Octopus? All of Manhattan trembles at the mention of the name cloaking the most malevolent mastermind since Fu Manchu. Leader of the Purple Eyes Cult. Master of a legion of deformed monsters that were once men. Would-be conquer of the world. A titan of tentacled terror. Who could defeat such a fiend? Only a hero as ruthless as he! Out of the ghetto emerges the kindly Dr. Skull, healer of the impoverished. Few suspect that Dr. Skull is by night the dreaded Skull Killer, crusher of criminals. And no one knows that a third identity lurks behind those artificial faces…

In The City Condemned to Hell, these strange antagonists meet in a duel to their mutual destruction! Plus three bonus terror tales torn from the pages of the February-March, 1939 issue of The Octopus!—“The Little Dolls of Death”, “Detour to the Grave” and “Locked in With Murder.”!