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Issue Details

Issue #32
Published June 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Jack Schiff (Editor); Murray Boltinoff (Associate Editor); George Kashdan (Associate Editor)

Cover Details - "We Battled the Hand of Doom!"

Pencils Bob Brown
Inks Bob Brown

7 page story "We Were Trapped in Freak Valley!"

Synopsis Hunters Steve and Jed while trying to locate an elephant for a zoo, find a full grown elephant in miniature size, and an entranceway to a hidden valley. In the valley an active volcano is spewing a gas that appears to alter the size of living things. Thinking they'll make money selling the animals, they start collecting them. But when it's time to leave, the animals have other ideas.
Genre Fantasy
Pencils Doug Wildey
Inks Doug Wildey

Half page advertisement "Tootsie Roll ad"

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "House of Mystery #87 and Strange Adventures #104"

1 page public service announcement "Fred Finds a Way!"

Characters Fred; Jimmy; baseball coach
Synopsis Fred finds that there are other ways to participate in his favorite activity of baseball, despite physical limitations or being rejected for the team.
Genre fact
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Bernard Baily
Inks Bernard Baily
Letters Ira Schnapp

7 page story "The Day I Deserted to Earth!"

Synopsis A group of raiders bungles an attack on a Venusian freighter, and then seeks refuge on Earth. Lor doesn't land so much as crash, and ends up being rescued by an elderly couple. When he locates his teammates, they've decided to set up a permanent base on Earth, and eliminate anyone that discovers their presence. But Lor decides he must protect the elderly couple that saved him.
Genre Science fiction
Pencils Mort Meskin
Inks Mort Meskin
Notes Title: Correction "to" by Hank Heyman, 2005-05-13, (Per Sandell ed.)

Half page advertisement "Tootsie Roll Pop ad"

1 page advertisement "Clyde Beatty and Cole Bros Circus at Palisades Amusement Park"

Characters Superman; Emmett Kelly

1 page text story "I Led a Super Safari"

Script Jack Miller
Letters typeset

1 page Professor Eureka filler "At last I have finished my electronic brain"

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

8 page story "We Battled the Hand of Doom"

Synopsis A giant disembodied hand terrorizes the town of Mesa-ville, and it's up to Dr. Gaunt to save the town.
Genre Occult
Pencils Bob Brown
Inks Bob Brown

Half page advertisement "Tootsie Roll Fudge ad"

Half page Shorty filler "Everybody's got girls' names tattoed on their chests."

Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff