Issue Details

Issue	#78
Published	November 1956
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Richard E. Hughes
Notes	Indicia states "published Monthly except March and May ... by Best Syndicated Features".

Cover Details - "Beware the Ides of March!"

Genre	Horror
Pencils	Ogden Whitney (signed)
Inks	Ogden Whitney (signed)
Notes	Indicia states "published Monthly except March and May ... by Best Syndicated Features".

8 page story "Rosie and Red Russia!"

Characters	Rosie; Vanya Tchekov
Synopsis	Russian scientists capture an alien with special powers, but it turns out the alien was studying the scientists just as much as the scientists were studying the alien.
Genre	Science Fiction
Pencils	Ogden Whitney (signed)
Inks	Ogden Whitney (signed)

1 page text story "Fabulous Animal"

Characters	Adam Collier
Synopsis	Adam Collier, an archeologist, proves that unicorns existed.
Genre	Science Fiction
Letters	Typeset

3 page Uncanny Mysteries story "The Case of the Vanishing Indian"

Characters	Ed Morris; Os-Kee-Da
Synopsis	Ed Morris, a rancher, gets into an accident and is saved by the ghost of an Indian with a withered arm.
Genre	Science Fiction
Pencils	Pete Costanza ?

8 page story "Beware the Ides of March"

Characters	Tony Blake [Julius Caesar]
Synopsis	Tony Blake goes through life having accidents on the 15th of March every year, and knows Latin without having been taught it. He becomes a brilliant military strategist and everything he does echoes the life of Julius Caesar.
Genre	Science Fiction
Pencils	John Rosenberger [as John R]
Inks	John Rosenberger [as John R]

1 page letters page "Let's Talk It Over!"

Synopsis	Letters to the editor.
Letters	Typeset

4 page story "The Second Mrs. Manion!"

Characters	Bill Manion; Lady Cynthia Conway
Synopsis	Lady Cynthia Conway gets into a car accident on her way to meet Bill Manion and can't meet him. Strangely, though, her spirit somehow gets split in two and half of her lies in a hospital bed in England, the other half goes to the United States and marries Mr. Manion.
Genre	Science Fiction
Pencils	Creig Flessel ?
Inks	Creig Flessel ?
Reprinted	In Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #130

3 page What's Behind That Superstition story "What's Behind That Superstition? No. 1: The Broken Mirror"

Characters	Dr. Orin Blakely; Al Barrone
Synopsis	Dr. Orin Blakely of the Institute of Psychic Research explains the origins of the superstitions surrounding breaking mirrors.
Genre	Fact; Science Fiction
Pencils	Pete Costanza ?; ?
Inks	Pete Costanza ?; ?