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Issue Details

Issue #9
Published April 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 - "They Meet at Night!"

Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett

4 page story "They Meet at Night!"

Synopsis A Martian arrives to capture an Earth man, but he mistakenly abducts another Martian who had arrived a thousand years ago and disguised himself as a human.
Pencils Mac Pakula
Inks Mac Pakula

4 page story "Prophet of Doom!"

Synopsis A bank robber who thinks he can foresee the future brings about his own capture when he foresees the train he is on being in a wreck and pulls the emergency cord to exit. Since he stopped the train while it was on the tracks, it is indeed struck by another train and he gets clipped by a flying piece of debris which gives the authorities time to catch up and apprehend him.
Pencils Jim Mooney
Inks Jim Mooney

3 page story "A Matter of Life or Death!"

Synopsis A gardener buys a can of pesticide that the chemical company had accidentally filled with Nitro instead.
Pencils Sol Brodsky [as "Solly"]
Inks Sol Brodsky [as "Solly"]
Reprinted in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #32 (November 1974)

4 page story "Mind Reader!"

Synopsis A Nazi saboteur with the ability to read minds makes friends as a cover with an American who can read minds as well, so when he tries to plant his time bomb at the munitions factory, the American wraps it up as a gift and gives it back to him so that it will detonate killing him and the submarine crew that has picked him up.
Pencils Bernie Krigstein
Inks Bernie Krigstein

2 page text story "Image in the Mirror"

Characters Bruce Morton; Miss Coleman
Synopsis A wealthy but unhappy man is motivated to change his life by the vision of his past that he sees in his mirror.
Pencils Gene Colan
Inks Gene Colan
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #143 (February 1956) [originally titled "The Mirror"]

4 page story "Stowaway In The Sky"

Synopsis A man foils spies attempting to steal his plane made of gravity defying metal by outfitting his crew with safety harnesses made of the same material and having them bail out. The spies think the men have been killed, but as they hang motionless, they turn the plane around so that when it lands the spies are captured.
Pencils Ed Winiarski
Inks Ed Winiarski

4 page story "Captured By The Cave Men!"

Synopsis Two scientists discover a race of people living underground who hunt surface people. They destroy their equipment so that they no longer have access to the surface.
Pencils Tony Dipreta
Inks Tony Dipreta