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Issue Details

Issue #63
Published June 1958
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in January 1958. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. 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 - "The Melting Pot!"

Characters Sam Barlow
Genre science fiction
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett

4 page story "He Never Came Out!"

Characters Joe Morse; Pete Atkins; Mr. Cartel
Synopsis A wax museum owner claims that his statues are criminals petrified by the head of Medusa. When a thief ignores this warning and tries to rob him, the museum gains a new statue.
Genre occult
Pencils Alphonso Greene
Inks Alphonso Greene

4 page story "Uncork It...If You Dare!"

Characters Harold Simpson; Flora Simpson
Synopsis A meek man is left a bottle of gas that changes personalities. Instead of using it to become more daring, he uses it on UN diplomats. The gas has unexpected effects, but in the end he uses all of it to avert war, though no one knows the sacrifice he made.
Genre occult
Pencils Howard O'Donnell
Inks Howard O'Donnell

3 page story "The Drowning Man!"

Characters Joe Fulsom; Hirala
Synopsis A cafe owner comes across Atlanteans exiling some of their criminals. The guards save him from drowning and he is offered citizenship.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Christopher Rule
Inks Christopher Rule
Notes Pencil credit of J. Makowski? and ink credit of Hy Fleishman removed based on information from Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion list.

4 page story "Flight Number Thirteen!"

Characters Franz; Ivan
Synopsis Two criminals hijack an airplane full of strangely emotionless passengers. The airplane is piloted remotely into the parallel world that the passengers came from, where the air will drain the pilots' emotions.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Ruben Moreira
Inks Ruben Moreira

4 page story "The Melting Pot"

Characters Sam Barlow
Synopsis A convict creates a melting pot to free himself from jail to steal gold, but the pot melts the gold and leaves him trapped in molten metal.
Genre science fiction
Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte

2 page text story "The Free Ride"

Characters Chuck; Gus Farrell; Capt. Zingle
Synopsis A teenager working at an amusement park to help support his family is kind to a mysterious boy, and finds himself rewarded with a real trip to outer space.
Genre science fiction
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustrations. All future reprints of "Rocket Time" are under this title.
Reprinted from World of Suspense (Marvel, 1956 series) #3 (August 1956) [originally titled "Rocket Time"]; in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #15 (January 1961); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008)

4 page story "Too Good To Be True!"

Characters Danny; Uncle George
Synopsis A young boy imagines that he has a rich uncle who suddenly appears, but when he begins to doubt, the uncle fades away.
Genre occult
Pencils Don Perlin
Inks Don Perlin