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Issue Details

Issue #42
Published January 1957
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett

4 page story "Farley's Other Face"

Synopsis A man steals a thousand dollars from a recluse that he had pretended to befriend, then pays to have his looks altered and fingerprints removed to avoid trouble with the police. It turns out that the wealthy recluse died shortly after the theft and left the thief his money, but he has no way to convince authorities that he was that man.
Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte

4 page story "Life Sentence"

Synopsis A man gives a prisoner time-traveling pills in exchange for the knowledge of where the bank roll is hidden because he knows the past can't be changed. The prisoner thinks he will be able to go back in time and behave differently, so he agrees to the deal, but finds that he does the exact same things and will have to serve his sentence all over again.
Pencils Robert Sale
Inks Robert Sale

3 page story "The Curse of Ojiir"

Synopsis When two jewel thieves attempt to steal a cursed diamond they find themselves aged prematurely.
Pencils Pete Morisi
Inks Pete Morisi

2 page text story "He Saw the Future"

Letters typeset
Reprinted from Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #43 (November 1955) [originally titled "The Jack Pot"]

4 page story "Humans...Keep Out!"

Synopsis Scientists are driven off the moon by lifeforms that they themselves engineered to live without oxygen so as to colonize the moon.
Genre Horror; Mystery

4 page story "The Savages"

Synopsis This story postulates that the first humans were actually Martians whose spaceship developed engine trouble.
Pencils Angelo Torres
Inks Angelo Torres

4 page story "The Disappearing Man"

Synopsis A fight manager has his wife stolen from him when he signs up a Venusian who can disappear in the ring at will.
Pencils Gray Morrow
Inks Gray Morrow