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Issue Details

Issue #61
Published February 1958
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in September 1957. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Some information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion list. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "Laundry Machines!"

Genre occult
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett
Notes This cover does not depict the story within.

4 page story "The Laundry Machines!"

Characters Nicholas Flood
Synopsis A landlord squeezes a Haitian laundress for more rent and is made ill by voodoo. He has her deported, but the box holding the pills to cure him contains only more boxes, one within the next.
Genre occult
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman

4 page story "The Spectre"

Characters Burt Malone; Mysto the Mystic
Synopsis A race car driver refuses to drive after he sees a ghost. His manager thinks it is a hallucination, and pays a mystic to convince him it is safe, but the reappearance of the ghost after the mystic’s crystal breaks suggests that it is real.
Genre occult
Pencils Dick Giordano ?
Inks Dick Giordano ?
Notes Art identified as Dick Giordano by Dr. Michael Vassallo, some other sources credit Doug Wildey.

2 page text story "The Miracle Painting"

Characters Franz; Mr. Joseff; Marianne Le Brun
Synopsis A shy and artistic tour guide wins the love of a wealthy girl when an unknown force alters his painting to make it a proposal.
Genre occult; romance
Letters typeset
Reprinted from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #149 (August 1956) [originally titled "Palace of Truth"]

4 page story "The Disappearing Man!"

Characters Farrell; Ellis; Clay
Synopsis A scientist who disappeared years ago returns, explaining that he is now king of an alternate dimension. His greedy friend hopes to take over the dimension for himself, but ends up imprisoned indefinitely.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Ed Winiarski
Inks Ed Winiarski

3 page story "Menace of the Mirror"

Characters Raynor; Garson
Synopsis A scientist thinks he has invented a machine to give life to reflections in a mirror, but when he tests it he realizes that he himself is a reflection.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Bernard Baily
Inks Bernard Baily

4 page story "Fear Walks on Four Feet!"

Characters Lester Morse; Jim Andrews; Ruth Andrews; Hampton
Synopsis A man tries to ruin his partner and romantic rival. He overpowers a ray intended to capture a lion and it explodes. He seems to be blown into the past and hides for a year, but actually the ray's malfunction created a dinosaur out of a fossil, and his partner became rich in his absence.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Al Eadeh
Inks Al Eadeh

4 page story "The Eyes That Never Close!"

Characters Jeff Corley; Leo Hutten
Synopsis A prisoner tries to escape using a mystic idol, but it will only take the evil on doomed journeys through time, and he is trapped in Hiroshima just before the bomb falls.
Genre occult
Pencils Bernie Krigstein
Inks Bernie Krigstein