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Issue Details

Issue #56
Published January 1960
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in October 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.

Cover Details - "I Brought Zog the Unbelievable Back to Life!"

Characters Zog
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Jack Kirby ?
Notes Cover inks suggestion by Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors List (December 2008).
Reprinted in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #6 (May 1971) [partial]

6 page story "I Brought Zog Back to Life!"

Characters Charles Burton; Zog
Synopsis An alien giant is found in a glacier, causing fear of what might happen if it gets free. A scientist thinks that the fear is dangerous and frees it, finding that the alien is harmless.
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 Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #6 (May 1971)

2 page text story "Underground"

Characters Doyle Fairless; Sandy Clark
Synopsis A man is thought mad for designing underground homes, until everyone moves underground and surface-dwellers are thought mad.
Genre science fiction
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #34 (January 1957)

6 page story "I Spent the Night in the Haunted Lighthouse!"

Characters John
Synopsis A man visiting a coastal town is stranded in an abandoned lighthouse during a storm and sees a ghostly ship and pirates arrive. Next morning he finds a life preserver from the Flying Dutchman.
Genre occult
Pencils Joe Sinnott
Inks Joe Sinnott
Notes Information on this sequence from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #4 (July 1971)

6 page story "I Planted the Seeds of Doom!"

Characters Hank Garnett
Synopsis A space explorer sells the seeds of an alien plant, before finding to his horror that the plants spawn monsters. He uses the monster’s need for water to escape and stop the growth of more like it.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Christopher Rule
Notes Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #6 (May 1971)

5 page story "I Shrunk Away to Nothing!"

Characters Brad; Prof. Ace
Synopsis A man needs to raise money for his brother's medical treatment and so he answers an ad from a scientist seeking to test a shrinking ray. He agrees to be the subject and the ray works. He finds himself shrinking past microscopic objects and finally finds himself in a new world. When he asks a native what this world is called, he receives the answer 'Earth'.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes This story is retold in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #82 (March 1961) as "The World Beyond" (also drawn by Ditko). Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #6 (May 1971)