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Issue Details

Issue #8
Published July 1957
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Mr. Mason's Strange Problem!"

Pencils John Severin
Inks John Severin
Notes Cover pencils and inks credits from Steven Grant via the GCD Error List (11 August 2007).

4 page story "The Man Who Couldn't Be Killed!"

Synopsis A man is going to be hanged on Monday so he escapes from jail and gets a potion from a witch doctor that will remove all Mondays from his life. He forgot that he was born on a Monday.
Pencils Jimmy Infantino
Inks Jimmy Infantino
Notes Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #176 (October 1974)

4 page story "The Voice from Nowhere"

Synopsis A man at the airport picks up a suitcase containing a ventriloquist's doll by accident and it gives life-saving advice to the pilot.
Pencils George Woodbridge
Inks George Woodbridge
Notes Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

4 page story "Effigy!"

Synopsis A painter paints a painting of a dead man he dislikes who shoots him in the shoulder.
Pencils Angelo Torres
Inks Angelo Torres
Notes Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #16

3 page story "We the Jury"

Synopsis When a man on trial for murder suddenly finds himself within the jury room as a mental projection, he possesses one juror and argues forcefully for a second degree conviction so he will not be sent to the chair. What he doesn't know until after the verdict is read is that the other jurors actually wanted to acquit him.
Pencils Ruben Moreira
Inks Ruben Moreira
Notes Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

1 page text story "Man of History"

Letters typeset
Notes Job number suggests this is an unpublished inventory story or a reprint from an unknown source a year previous.

4 page story "The Night of March 5th"

Synopsis A spy steals a time machine that moves him forward one year. When people he knows react with fear when they see him, he sets the machine to take him back one year. As his boss brings in gunmen to liquidate him, he realizes his friends were afraid because he is dead one year hence.
Pencils Robert Q. Sale
Inks Robert Q. Sale
Notes Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Newspaper on page 3 is the Daily Bugle.

Half page text article "Statement of Ownership"

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Notes For 1 Oct 1956. Stan Lee, Editor; Martin Goodman, Managing Editor; Monroe Froehlich, Jr., Business Manager.

4 page story "Mister Mason's Strange Problem"

Synopsis A man insults a fakir and is punished by gradually being removed from existence.
Pencils John Giunta ?; Dick Giordano ?
Inks John Giunta ?; Dick Giordano ?
Notes Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.