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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published April 1951
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "The Train To Nowhere!"

Characters Mr. Collins
Genre horror

7 page story "Return from Mars"

Synopsis Martians want to take over Earth, but they don't invade because even their weakest weapons are so powerful that they would destroy Earth and make it useless to them, so they place agitator spies among the population to incite war.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Russ Heath
Inks Russ Heath
Notes All information except synopsis from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

4 page story "The Man in the Crowd"

Synopsis An evil entity gives a struggling artist a hand, which makes the artist paint well, but also commits murders while the artist is asleep.
Notes Job number and page count from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

2 page text story "The Witch Doctor"

Letters typeset
Notes All information for this sequence from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.
Reprinted from Suspense (Marvel, 1949 series) #2 (February 1951) [originally titled "The Clay Pipe"]

6 page story "The Lost Land"

Synopsis A man becomes ruler of an underground civilization, but when weapon tests for a planned invasion of the surface go awry and destroy his subjects, he finds himself trapped underground with an immortal lifespan due to radiation treatments he has received.
Notes Job number and page count from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

5 page story "The Train to Nowhere"

Synopsis A man sees a black train at midnight which presages his death.
Script Hank Chapman
Notes Job number, script credit and page count from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.