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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published June 1951
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Credits from atlastales.com (added July 2009).

Cover Details - "Trapped in Space!"

Genre science fiction
Reprinted in Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Bell Features, 1951 series) #40 [cover]

5 page story "Look -- If You Dare"

Synopsis A man buys a telescope with a powerful lens from an alien spy. The man sees an impending invasion fleet through the telescope. The alien spy tracks him down and knocks him out and switches the telescope with a normal one so that no one knows the man got the powerful telescope by accident.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Ed Winiarski
Inks Ed Winiarski
Reprinted in Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Bell Features, 1951 series) #40

8 page story "Trapped in Space"

Synopsis The Master of Zodus captures Earth people for slaves by setting up The Room of No Return in carnival attractions.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks Mike Sekowsky
Notes A skier in the last panel who finds the protagonist's account of his horrible ordeal says in part, "I'm going to show it to the editor of 'Unknown Worlds'! I bet he can use it!"
Reprinted in Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Bell Features, 1951 series) #40

2 page text story "Mantrap!"

Genre horror
Letters typeset
Notes Story has 2 spot illustrations. Title originally given here as "Manhunt!" but changed based on info from Atlastales and other internet sites.
Reprinted in Adventures Into Terror (Marvel, 1951 series) #4 (June 1951) [as "Vampire Ship"]

4 page story "The Last Plunge"

Synopsis Suicides who leap off bridges must pay the penalty of being transformed into fish.
Genre horror
Script Hank Chapman
Inks Jack Abel ?
Notes Lead character commits suicide.
Reprinted in Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Bell Features, 1951 series) #40

6 page story "Two Worlds in One!"

Synopsis When a man passes through a time machine to the year 2049, he is told that he can only remain for thirty days in one era before returning to the other, else he will die.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jay Scott Pike ?
Inks Jay Scott Pike ?
Reprinted in Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Bell Features, 1951 series) #5