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Issue Details

Issue #56
Published September 1957
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Pencils Fred Kida?

4 page story "The Glass Man"

Synopsis When a man buys a can of radioactive re-silvering paint, his evil image escapes from the mirror.
Script Stan Lee?
Pencils Bob Powell
Inks Bob Powell

4 page story "The Thing In the Sky"

Synopsis A scientist builds a miniature representation of the solar system which somehow allows him to observe events in the past and future. When his cat jumps into the device, it becomes suspended and people outside on the street see an image of the animal. He dismantles the device as he is concerned about the possible effects damage to the model Earth could have on the real Earth.
Script Stan Lee?
Pencils Ruben Moreira
Inks Ruben Moreira

4 page story "False Face"

Synopsis An impersonator picks the wrong man to use as a disguise for a heist when the police pick him up because the bank president he's disguised as has been jailed on embezzlement charges.
Script Stan Lee?
Pencils Ed Winiarski (as Win)
Inks Ed Winiarski

3 page story "A Cry For Help"

Synopsis Three punks try to mug an organ grinder but regret it when his monkey turns out to be a large gorilla.
Script Stan Lee?
Pencils Sol Brodsky
Inks Sol Brodsky

2 page text story "Maestro Ricardo"

Letters typeset
Reprinted from Strange Stories of Suspense (Marvel, 1955 series) #6 (December 1955) [originally titled "The Baton"]

4 page story "Out of This World"

Synopsis Thieves interrupt scientists conducting an experiment so that they can steal uranium, but they wind up in another dimension.
Script Stan Lee?
Pencils Bernie Krigstein
Inks Bernie Krigstein

4 page story "Confession of Murder"

Synopsis A destitute man confesses to manslaughter, but the police tell him that he saw a ghost and give him a job referral.
Script Stan Lee?
Pencils Frank Bolle
Inks Frank Bolle