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Issue Details

Issue #54
Published September 1959
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in June 1959. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. From this issue to issue #63 (December 1960), virtually all new stories in this series are narrated in the first person. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "I Unleashed Monstro on the World!"

Characters Monstro; Spellbinder [Sam Binder]
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Christopher Rule
Notes Cover inks credit added by Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors list, December 2008.

5 page story "I Unleashed Monstro on the World!"

Characters Spellbinder [Sam Binder]; Moko; Monstro
Synopsis A hypnotist brings a giant albino gorilla to America, but causes a near calamity when he finds that the beast is blind, and so immune to hypnosis.
Genre monsters
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

2 page text story "Music Master"

Characters Joe; Gus; Angelo
Synopsis A struggling band takes on a poor but talented young harp player who turns out to be a young angel studying on Earth.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #39 (October 1955)

5 page story "I Dared to Defy...the Idol's Curse!"

Characters Dunstan Blake
Synopsis A mercenary tries to steal a sacred diamond from a mysterious idol, only to find that the idol is actually a trap set by aliens to collect a human sample for study.
Genre occult
Pencils Joe Sinnott
Inks Joe Sinnott
Notes Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

4 page story "My Other Face!"

Characters Jason Gibbs; Professor Rectorus
Synopsis A space pilot in the year 2010 is convinced that his appearance is holding him back, and seeks out a new Martian beauty serum, which he is horrified to find turns him into a handsome Martian.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Al Williamson
Inks Al Williamson
Notes Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

4 page story "I Know The Gargoyle's Secret!"

Characters Jacques-Pierre Duval
Synopsis A Frenchman fascinated with gargoyles joins the resistance in WWII. When he is captured a strange beast saves him, and after the war he sees tell-tale bullet holes on the gargoyles he loves.
Genre occult
Script Carl Wessler?
Pencils John Severin
Inks John Severin
Notes Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Script attribution by Dr. Michael Vassallo on www.atlastales.com.

5 page story "I Am the Menace from the Purple Planet!"

Characters Gxenu; Mark VIII
Synopsis An alien arrives on Earth on a mission of peace. The humans are suspicious of him and try to hold him hostage, but they find they have only captured a robot, while the disappointed alien returns home.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Christopher Rule
Notes Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.