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Issue Details

Issue #51
Published October 1956
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Some information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion list.

Cover Details - "The Insects!"

Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett

4 page story "The Insects!"

Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman

4 page story "Inside the Black Box"

Pencils Herb Familton
Inks Herb Familton

4 page story "No Place On Earth!"

Pencils Harry Lazarus
Inks Harry Lazarus

4 page story "He Stalks By Night!"

Synopsis A planter in India is nearly convinced of superstitions concerning were-tigers after he slays its mate, but it turns out to be a plot by one of the locals to seize control of the village.
Pencils Bob Powell
Inks Bob Powell
Reprinted in Giant-Size Man-Thing (Marvel, 1974 series) #2 (November 1974)

2 page text story "Over the Moon"

Characters Mr. Collins; Jim
Synopsis A science fiction movie director gets some help from a real alien and flying saucer, but the film bombs when the footage of the saucer is dismissed as too phony-looking.
Genre science fiction
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #58 (June 1957) [as "The Little Green Man"]; in Strange Worlds (Marvel, 1958 series) #4 (June 1959); in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #93 (June 1963)

3 page story "Blackout!"

Pencils Hy Fleischman
Inks Hy Fleischman

4 page story "The Thing in the Jungle!"

Characters Cliff Morgan
Synopsis A man arrives at a hidden temple deep in the jungle to find three others ahead of him. The temple informs him that they are really aliens and the temple is a rescue ship that broadcast images of the temple onto movie screens that only they could see which is why they felt compelled to seek out the temple. The man realizes that he is not one of the aliens since he has not been to the movies, but is undecided whether he should reveal himself or go along with the aliens and leave Earth.
Genre Occult
Pencils Bernard Baily
Inks Bernard Baily
Reprinted in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #16 (April 1975)