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Issue Details

Issue #54
Published January 1957
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 Long Sleep!"

Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett

4 page story "A Witch By Night"

Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte
Notes A story that shares plot elements with The Twilight Zone's "It's A Good Life".

4 page story "The Long Sleep!"

Synopsis A criminal thinks he has shot a night watchman and goes into suspended animation for forty years so that the police will forget about him, but when he comes out of the suspended animation, he reads in the old newspaper that his partner was the one who wounded the night watchman earlier in the evening and the police never suspected him.
Pencils Gray Morrow
Inks Gray Morrow

4 page story "Something Strange On the Sand!"

Synopsis A man finds a city with a treasure that only appears once every several years and attempts to steal the treasure but fails.
Pencils Doug Wildey
Inks Doug Wildey

4 page story "Trapped In the Dark!"

Synopsis A swindler whose conscience is bothering him finds himself locked in an amusement park fun house where he sees visions of the people he has cheated.
Pencils Robert Sale
Inks Robert Sale

2 page text story "Robot Inventor"

Characters Ned Carter; Mr. Jonas
Synopsis A disgruntled janitor's obsessive effort to create a sweeping robot costs him his job and ends in failure, but only because he sees no use for a perpetual motion machine.
Genre science fiction
Letters typeset
Reprinted from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #32 (June 1955) [originally titled "The Inventor"]

3 page story "The Man Who Talked!"

Synopsis A ventriloquist loses his dummy overboard and the island natives are about to destroy it when the ventriloquist speaks for the dummy many miles away.
Pencils Bob Powell
Inks Bob Powell

4 page story "The Punishment of Paul Phillips!"

Synopsis When a man testifying in court dreams of being executed due to circumstantial evidence he changes his attitude.
Pencils George Roussos
Inks George Roussos