MENACE "Walking Dead!"

"Walking Dead" didn't always refer to zombies...

...but it sure does here!

This cover-featured story from Atlas' Menace #9 (1954) came at the tail-end of the horror comic craze.
Dr. Wertham's crusade against those magazines had already taken it's toll as entire comic companies folded due to falling sales and public outcry.
Menace itself only lasted two more issues.
Luckily, Atlas (which already had a predilection for jumping onto whatever current fad was selling) had such a diverse line, that it was easy for Stan Lee and company to simply "switch gears" and replace the disgraced horror genre with other types of books.
For example, When MAD comics took off in the mid-1950s, Atlas had four MAD-clone comics; RIOT!, CRAZY!, WILD!, and SNAFU!!
None lasted more than five issues!
With the Silver Age dawning only a couple of years later, Atlas hung on long enough to become Marvel, and the rest is history...
Illustrated by John Forte with a cover by Gene Colan, the story's writer is unknown.

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MYSTERY TALES "Lady Vanished"

Though it doesn't have "Valentines Day" in the title...

...the holiday and it's effects on people's lives is the focal point of the story!

This story from Atlas' Mystery Tales #30 (1955) has only been reprinted once, in Marvel's Weird Wonder Tales #8 (1975).

We thought 47 years was too long for this little bit of graphic fluff to go unseen by comic aficionados!
Illustrator John Forte was a journeyman who worked for almost every company in the field at one point or another, though he's best-known to current comics fans as the main artist throughout most of the Silver Age on DC's Legion of Super-Heroes during it's run in Adventure Comics!