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Issue Details

Issue #43
Published February 1956
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Pencils Russ Heath
Inks Russ Heath

5 page story "The Man Who Lived Twice"

Synopsis A man dying on the operating table finds that time has stopped for everybody but him. He intuits that eventually time will start back up, but he uses the time he has been given to do good deeds for people.
Pencils Tony DiPreta
Inks Tony DiPreta

2 page text story "The Swami"

Characters Rijak Lobar; John McDermott
Synopsis A greedy man misinterprets a fortune-teller's prediction and spends money that he'll never have.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #58 (April 1957) [as "The Crystal Ball"]; in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #60 (September 1960)

4 page story "I Saved Mankind"

Synopsis A man drives off aliens that were attempting to pour canisters into water reservoirs but the contents would have made people immune to disease.
Pencils John Forte

5 page story "Behind the Mask"

Synopsis A clown who can't have children finds an abandoned baby and takes him in only to discover the seeming infant is an alien spy. He is about to turn the creature in until he overhears the spy give his report to his superiors and requests that he be able to remain a human infant since he loves his adoptive parents.
Pencils Bob Brown
Inks Bob Brown

4 page story "The Mysterious Machine"

Synopsis A man invents a machine that changes his wife from harping shrew to devoted haus frau.
Pencils Larry Woromay
Inks Steve Kirkel

5 page story "The Unbelievable Man"

Synopsis A man from 1793 uses a time machine to bring electronic parts from 1956 into the past for his experiments until he is interrupted by researchers. They force him to return to the past without the last component he needs for his work and all the electric lights around the world go out.
Pencils Bob Forgione
Inks Jack Abel