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Issue Details

Issue #37
Published August 1956
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "The Volcano"

Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett

4 page story "The Deep Freeze"

Synopsis Three crooks place themselves in suspended animation for 200 years after stealing 150,000 dollars. Not only is the money still good in 2156, not only is 150,000 still alot of money in 2156 (gasp!), but the only reason they run afoul of the law is that the suitcase of money they stole was counterfeit to begin with.
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck

4 page story "Volcano"

Synopsis A man introduces technology to a primitive people living at the base of a volcano and the volcano becomes angry at their new competitive and mistrustful nature so wipes out their society.

4 page story "Inside the Whirlpool"

Pencils Herb Familton
Inks Herb Familton
Notes This story's plot is similar to Star Trek's "Mirror, Mirror" but the depicted events are used to make a thief feel shameful of his behavior.

4 page story "The Voice In the Night"

Synopsis When a man slugs an elderly man collecting donations for the poor and steals the poor box, his conscience bothers him so much that he hears a clock accuse him of being a thief.
Pencils Robert Sale
Inks Robert Sale

2 page text story "The Old Shop"

Characters Mrs. Gerrity; Tom Gerrity; Officer O'Malley; Logarithm
Synopsis An old-fashioned shopkeeper unwittingly saves the life of a boy from Mechanica when her remedy oil lubricates the gears in his brain.
Genre science fiction
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #54 (April 1957) [as "The Remedy Oil"]

3 page story "The Sea Serpent"

Synopsis A sailor sees a sea serpent arise when there is a disaster to be averted.
Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte

4 page story "The First Man"

Synopsis The author of this story postulates that a series of satellites will be required to use as refueling stations on the way to the moon. Once they are built, and rockets make it to the moon, men find that the moon itself is an inhabited satellite built by alien beings.