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Issue Details

Issue #41
Published May 1956
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett
Letters typeset

4 page story "Out of the Darkness"

Synopsis Leonardo Da Vinci builds a spacecraft and sends it off to populate an entire planet with robots.
Pencils Mort Drucker
Inks Mort Drucker
Notes Features Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).

4 page story "The Mystery of the Doomed Derelict!"

Synopsis A cruel sea captain is cursed until he can find a crew that will serve under him willingly and respect him but the leopard seems unable to change his spots.
Pencils John Romita
Notes Features a sea captain named Josiah Wedgwood; no relation to the English potter Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795).
Reprinted in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #4

4 page story "The Man in the Mirror!"

Synopsis When a timid fellow buys a mirror at an auction, it turns him into a real man.
Pencils Ed Winiarski
Inks Ed Winiarski

3 page story "While the Town Sleeps!"

Synopsis The statue of the Dutch boy plugs the hole in the dike with his finger.
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger
Notes Inspired by the story of the "Hero of Haarlem," the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike, first told in "Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates" by Mary Mapes Dodge (1865).
Reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #20

2 page text story "New Century"

Letters typeset

4 page story "Behind the Mask"

Synopsis When a man tries to use a handsome mask to get rich women to marry him they keep dissolving as he proposes. When he has a change in attitude and tries to help a poor girl, he is honest with her that he is only wearing a mask, but when he removes it he finds his homely face has now come to resemble the handsome mask.

4 page story "This Primitive Planet!"

Synopsis A new metal worker at the shop builds a flying saucer out of scraps during his spare time to leave Earth.
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman