| Issue | #55 |
| Published | November 1959 |
| Frequency | bi-monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in July 1959. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Characters | Prof. Dunn |
| Genre | occult |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | George Klein |
| Notes | Cover inks credit from Nick Caputo, via the GCD Errors list, December 2008. |
| Characters | Prof. Dunn |
| Synopsis | A homely professor discovers the cloud kingdom of the giants and finds happiness there with a beautiful princess. |
| Genre | fantasy |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Notes | Only "T-" visible in story, job number surmised from other stories in issue. |
| Reprinted | in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (1962) |
| Characters | Andre Corday |
| Synopsis | An American tourist in Paris is unwittingly targeted by a spy as an intelligence courier and is nearly killed. |
| Genre | spy |
| Pencils | Joe Maneely |
| Inks | Joe Maneely |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. Narrated in the first person. |
| Reprinted | from Spy Thrillers (Marvel, 1954 series) #4 (May 1955) |
| Characters | Dunstan Blake |
| Synopsis | Blake lands on an alien world, where the telepathic natives look like cavemen. He is afraid of being dissected, but is instead is scanned with rays and sent back to Earth as uninteresting. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Joe Sinnott |
| Inks | Joe Sinnott |
| Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Characters | Henry; Marge |
| Synopsis | A scientist studies redwoods looking for the secret of eternal life. He nearly meets disaster when he tests the formula on himself, and finds that to become immortal he must become immobile. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee ? |
| Pencils | John Forte |
| Inks | John Forte |
| Notes | This story is retold in issue #74 (November 1961) as "Forever is a Long Long Time!" drawn by Don Heck, and in issue #103 (April 1964) as "To Live Forever!" by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber. Stan Lee is tentatively credited as writer on the basis of his plot credit for the version in issue #103. |
| Characters | Sam; Noah |
| Synopsis | An eccentric moves into a desert town and begins building a boat. Shortly afterwards, it begins to rain constantly and the man’s neighbour is shocked to discover his name is Noah. |
| Genre | occult |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | George Klein ? |
| Notes | Inker credit and job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Synopsis | A man dreams of a monster growing from an alien spore that is killed when it is eaten by a garter snake, a snake that he found in his yard as a boy. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Don Heck |
| Inks | Don Heck |
| Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (1962) |