Issue Details

Issue	#53
Published	July 1959
Frequency	bi-monthly
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Stan Lee
Notes	Distributed to newstands in April 1958. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "He Made the Machines Go Mad!"

Pencils	Jack Kirby
Inks	Christopher Rule
Notes	Cover inks ID from Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors list, December 2008.

5 page story "Only Twelve of Us May Live!"

Pencils	Joe Sinnott
Inks	Joe Sinnott
Notes	Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

2 page text story "The Spirit"

Characters	Bobby Davis; Tom Davis; Alice Davis;
Synopsis	A young boy cleans out the attic of the old house his family moved into and meets a ghost from the Revolutionary War era.
Genre	occult
Letters	typeset
Notes	Text story with illustration.
Reprinted	from Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #49 (May 1956)

5 page story "Beware of Tomorrow!"

Pencils	Steve Ditko
Inks	Steve Ditko
Notes	Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

4 page story "The Stranger in Space!"

Characters	Frank Mason
Synopsis	A space traveller leaving for a distant star meets himself returning, since he had travelled back in time due to faster than light speeds.
Genre	science fiction
Pencils	John Forte
Inks	John Forte
Notes	Narrated in the first person.
Reprinted	in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (1962); in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #20 (August 1975)

4 page story "Shadows in the Night!"

Pencils	Joe Sinnott
Inks	Joe Sinnott
Notes	Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

5 page story "He Made the Machines Go Mad!"

Characters	XTT-4; Prof. Jonas Weems
Genre	science fiction
Pencils	Don Heck
Inks	Don Heck
Notes	Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.