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Issue Details

Issue #70
Published August 1959
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in April 1959. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Some information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Timely/Atlas discussion list. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "When Wakes the Sphinx!"

Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers ?

5 page story "A Giant Walks the Earth!"

Characters Wilbur Fiske
Synopsis A short lab assistant works on a growth serum to gain a normal man's height. The serum works too well, and he continues to grow so tall his life is endangered when the air becomes too thin to breathe. Just as he is about to black out, the serum wears off, and he is restored to his original height having learned to be satisfied with the way he is.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Christopher Rule
Notes Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #7 (December 1974)

2 page text story "The Comic"

Characters Stan Wepp
Synopsis A bored television comedian is mysteriously transported back to the small mining town and small theatres that he loves.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #45 (May 1956)

5 page story "Earth in Chains!"

Characters Xmmp; Knnj; Gyyypo
Synopsis Aliens from the planet Regulus colonize Earth, treating humans as little more than animals. They must withdraw only because of their vulnerability to Earth's germs.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Notes Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

4 page story "Ghost Ship!"

Characters Dan; Ralph
Synopsis The US Coast Guard finds an abandoned Soviet submarine. The log book shows that they mistook an alien craft for an experimental American ship and tried to ram it. The aliens boarded the submarine, and the fate of the crew is unknown.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Carl Burgos
Inks Carl Burgos
Notes Pencil/Ink credits of "Bob Forgione ?" changed based on information from Tom Lammers and the Timely/Atlas discussion list.

4 page story "Escape to Tomorrow!"

Characters Joe Palmer; Prof. Alvin Whitehead
Synopsis A criminal hears of the invention of a time machine. He robs a bank and then escapes 50 years into the future. Once there, he discovers that under the new world government, US money is useless. The technology of the police makes crime impossible, so he is forced into hard labour to survive.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Notes Narrated in the second person. Set in 1960. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

5 page story "When Wakes the Sphinx!"

Characters Ahmend; Okzik; Zokae
Synopsis An Egyptian and a tourist see the Sphinx come to life and chase off Alien invaders.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #14 (December 1974)