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Issue Details

Issue #47
Published November 1956
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Something Strange about Smithtown!"

Pencils Carl Burgos
Inks Carl Burgos
Letters typeset

4 page story "The Man with No Face!"

Synopsis A mind-reading detective pursues a criminal until he falls in love with his daughter and resolves to turn himself in.
Pencils Robert Q. Sale
Inks Robert Q. Sale

4 page story "At the Stroke of Midnight!"

Synopsis An alien from another dimension volunteers to share knowledge of atomic energy, but the humans are suspicious that he is a spy so he returns to his own world.
Pencils Reed Crandall
Inks Reed Crandall

2 page text story "The King of the Lions"

Letters typeset
Reprinted from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #137 (August 1955) [originally titled "Courage"]

4 page story "The Only Woman!"

Synopsis A man steals a pendant from a museum hoping that it get him a girlfriend, but the mummy's undead guards retrieve it from him.

3 page story "A Knock at the Door"

Synopsis A man has a doll made to resemble a relative so he can torment it hoping that the man will feel pain as well but the other dolls from the shop that it was made come to the doll's rescue.
Pencils Bob Powell
Inks Bob Powell

4 page story "Something Strange about Smithtown!"

Pencils Joe Certa
Inks Joe Certa
Notes a similar motif to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"

4 page story "When They Wake Up!"

Synopsis Cave explorers find men in suspended animation who possess advanced technology from an ancient civilization and lie to them that present day humanity is evil so they will help them conquer. The sleepers simply drug the two explorers so that they will join them in their sleep until they are awakened in a civilized era.
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko