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Issue Details

Issue	#20
Published	July 1953
Frequency	monthly
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Stan Lee

Cover Details - "The Race That Vanished!/The Son of Rasputin!/Bwana Brown!/The Secret of Asteroid #85!"

Pencils	Carl Burgos
Inks	Carl Burgos
Letters	typeset
Notes	Art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

5 page story "Bwana Brown!"

Synopsis	Bwana Brown, a member of the Explorer's Club, gives a talk at their meeting of an African tribe who will give gold and diamonds to one who can prove they are immortal. The explorers ask for the location of this tribe, figuring to impress the natives with modern gadgets and pass the test, but Bwana Brown refuses to tell them. One of the hunters follows him back to his apartment and attempts to kill him with a spear, and afterward, steals the map. He finds the tribe and agrees to their test, but they cut off his head. Bwana Brown says to his friends "Pity he didn't ascertain that I actually was immortal before he tried to kill me."
Pencils	Gene Colan
Inks	Gene Colan
Notes	Art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

2 page text story "The 'Genie'"

Letters	typeset
Notes	Sequence added per Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

6 page story "The Son of Rasputin"

Synopsis	A man uses Pavlovian conditioning on his actress beloved in order to get her to automatically shoot his rival when he rings a bell. Things go well for him until a fire breaks out in his domicile, and when his wife hears the bells she shoots at the firemen, so they leave him to burn to death.
Pencils	Russ Heath
Inks	Russ Heath
Notes	Job number and art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

3 page story "The Secret of Asteroid #85!"

Script	Stan Lee
Pencils	Gil Evans
Inks	Gil Evans
Notes	Retold as V-562 "The Secret of the Black Planet" (5 pp.) in Tales of Suspense #28 (April 1962). Job number and credits from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

4 page story "A Monument to Mortimer!"

Synopsis	This is sort of a "Ransom of Red Chief"-type story where, after the rotten kid dies and is taken by Death, he goes to work on Death himself and kills him so he's remembered by immortal humans as a hero.
Pencils	Hy Fleischman
Inks	Hy Fleischman
Notes	Job number and art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

5 page story "The Race That Vanished"

Synopsis	A few years after 2439 a time capsule is unearthed that was buried in 1939 on some islands that previously had demonstrated no record of human habitation.
Pencils	Don Perlin
Inks	Don Perlin
Notes	Anachronism: A time capsule buried in 1939 contains a copy of "Unknown Worlds." Job number and art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.