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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published February 1959
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in November 1958. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person unless otherwise specified. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "I Was a Prisoner on the Planet of Plunder!"

Genre science fiction
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko

5 page story "I Was a Prisoner on the Planet of Plunder!"

Characters Rick Dugan
Synopsis An interstellar detective takes a cargo pilot's place to find out how ships are being robbed without anyone remembering anything. On an unarmed planet, the natives try to take his cargo and hypnotize him with sound waves, it doesn't work because the detective is deaf.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Notes Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #2 (1963)

2 page text story "Strange Mission"

Characters Alfred Pook; Harold; Dr. Smith
Synopsis A man becomes confused over directions to the dentist and as a result accidentally pilots an expedition to claim a new planet.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #45 (September 1956)

5 page story "I Was the Miracle Man"

Characters Bruno Storme; Henry Stubbs
Synopsis A brilliant but cruel businessman sets out to conquer an alien world. When he finds one he discovers that the inhabitants are far more mentally advanced then humans, possessing psychic powers. He is little more than an animal to them, and is displayed in a zoo.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Al Williamson
Inks Al Williamson
Notes Penciler credit, inker credit, and job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

4 page story "I Saw the Day the World Ended!"

Characters Prof. Grath; Gen. Kane; Craig; Mr. Kane
Synopsis A machine seems to show the end of the world when the Sun burns out in the future. Panic and dispair spread until it is realized that the machine actually showed the creation of the sun in reverse.
Genre science fiction
Notes Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

4 page story "The Little Lost Planet"

Synopsis A tiny lost planet does good deeds on Earth until it is located by its mother planet and returned to its home galaxy.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes Narrated in the third person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

5 page story "I Am the Scourge of Atlantis!"

Characters Ogarth; Cnidos
Synopsis The king of Atlantis is convinced that life still exists on the surface and leads an invasion fleet to make war on the world above. He finds that in the centuries since Atlantis sunk the pressures of the sea have made his people tiny as insects compared to surface humans, and they must return beneath the waves.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #2 (1963)