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Issue Details

Issue #49
Published August 1956
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett

4 page story "Inside the Black Bag"

Pencils Mac Pakula
Inks Mac Pakula

4 page story "The Girl Who Saved the World"

Pencils Joe Orlando
Inks Joe Orlando

4 page story "Not Quite Human"

Pencils Christopher Rule
Inks Christopher Rule

4 page story "What Happened To Mr. Smith"

Pencils Harry Lazarus
Inks Harry Lazarus

2 page text story "The Weatherman"

Characters Willie Wimms; Hugh Wimms
Synopsis In the future, young boy's afternoon is nearly ruined by a scheduled rainstorm, but when he runs into the rainmaker's magical assistant, he gets a delay.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #53 (May 1957) [as "The Rainmaker"]; in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959) #3 (May 1959); in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #64 (January 1961); in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #26 (December 1961); in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #118 (March 1964); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)

3 page story "The Animal"

Pencils Bob Brown
Inks Bob Brown

4 page story "The Man Who Cried"

Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte