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Issue Details

Issue #8
Published February 1957
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Information for this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion group

Cover Details - "Bullet-Proof Man! / The Disappearance! / Who Dwells Below?"

Pencils Carl Burgos
Inks Carl Burgos
Notes Information for this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion group

4 page story "Who Dwells Below?"

Synopsis Undersea men leave statues floating upon the surface to act as bait to capture surface men.
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman

4 page story "The Too-Perfect Crime!"

Synopsis Police arrest a chemist for murdering his partner when they find his body at the bottom of the stairs and he had left a note indicating that they had quarreled. The thing is, he did not kill him. He was busy using his invisibility potion to rob the bank but he is unable to convince the police to believe his alibi since he burned the money and formula when he saw the police approaching.
Pencils John Tartaglione
Inks John Tartaglione

4 page story "The Disappearance"

Synopsis A pilot flies a new plane that is so fast it goes 5000 years into Egypt's past and he marries Pharaoh's daughter. He mysteriously pops back into the present, but the plane stays in the past. The court martial is going to throw the book at him for telling such a preposterous story, but archeologists in Egypt uncover the plane in a burial crypt.
Pencils Mort Drucker
Inks Mort Drucker

4 page story "Nobody Will Ever Know!"

Synopsis A nobody gets struck by cosmic rays and they give him super powers which he uses to combat various menaces. The powers wear off after a time, but his experience has given him a new positive outlook on life.
Pencils Ted Galindo
Inks Ted Galindo

2 page text story "Invisible Friend"

Letters typeset
Reprinted from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #35 (April 1955) [originally titled "My Friend Koogelie"]

3 page story "You Must Not Pass"

Synopsis Various motorists pass a detour sign which cause them to rethink the paths which their actions have taken them down.
Pencils Sol Brodsky [as "Solly"]
Inks Sol Brodsky [as "Solly"]

4 page story "The Bullet-Proof Man"

Synopsis A convict develops a shield that will protect him from bullets but he finds that he cannot dissolve it.
Pencils Vic Carrabotta
Inks Vic Carrabotta