Issue Details

Issue	#23
Published	August 1959
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Jack Schiff, Murray Boltinoff, George Kashdan (both assoc)

Cover Details

Pencils	Bernard Baily
Inks	Bernard Baily

7 page Mark Merlin story "I Scout Earth's Strangest Secrets!"

Characters	Mark Merlin (intro, later Prince Ra-Man)
Pencils	Mort Meskin
Inks	Mort Meskin
Reprinted	in The Phantom Stranger (DC, 1969 series) #15 (September-October 1971)

Half page Professor Eureka filler "The Discovery"

Genre	gag
Script	Henry Boltinoff
Pencils	Henry Boltinoff
Inks	Henry Boltinoff
Letters	Henry Boltinoff

7 page story "The Creeping Creatures of Steel"

Pencils	George Roussos
Inks	George Roussos
Reprinted	in Big Boy (Artima, 1956 series) #44 (May 1960)

1 page text story "The Brief Life of Mr. Mechano"

Letters

typeset

1 page story "The Crazy House"

Pencils	Mort Drucker
Inks	Mort Drucker
Reprinted	from ?; in Unexpected, The (DC, 1968 series) #108

1 page Peter Porkchops [public service page] public service announcement "Tips on Summer Fun!"

Genre	funny animal
Script	Jack Schiff
Pencils	Rube Grossman
Inks	Rube Grossman
Letters	Ira Schnapp

7 page story "The Curse of the Prophetic Pencil!"

Pencils	Bernard Baily
Inks	Bernard Baily