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Issue Details

Issue #39
Published November 1955
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Escape to Nowhere!"

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

5 page story "Escape to Nowhere"

Synopsis When a slothful man climbs a rope and finds himself in a world where excess labor and noise are punished with death, he escapes back down the rope into his own world, and resolves to turn over a new leaf.
Pencils Gene Colan
Inks Gene Colan

2 page text story "The Money Tree"

Characters Billy Anderson; Tom Anderson; Amy Anderson
Synopsis A young boy's father scoffs when his son tries to grow a money tree, but the world is astonished when he succeeds.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Mystic (Marvel, 1952 series) #55 [as "The Amazing Money Tree"]; in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #7 (January 1960); in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #18 (June 1961); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008)

5 page story "The New Gimmick"

Synopsis A sci fi writer tries to interest a TV producer three times in a script about life on the moon. The producer fires him because he knows the moon is lifeless. When rocket travel to the moon becomes feasible, the producer gets the idea of filming a TV special of the trip, and when he arrives on the moon he is shocked to find the writer there who says he was born there.
Pencils Bob Forgione
Inks Jack Abel

4 page story "The Red World"

Synopsis The first arrivals on Mars are surprised to find that Jonathan Swift was there before them.
Pencils Mort Lawrence
Inks Mort Lawrence
Notes Inspired by the passage in Jonathan Swift's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World in Four Parts ... by Lemuel Gulliver (1726), in which reference is made to the discovery by Laputian astronomers of two moons orbiting Mars. The two actual moons, Phobos and Deimos, were not discovered until 1877. Note and change of page count from 5 to 4 per Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

4 page story "Under His Hat!"

Synopsis An angel who does charitable works refuses to remove his hat until a dying old woman asks him to doff his hat out of respect for a lady. He does so, but only after everyone else has left the room, as he does not want to reveal his halo.
Pencils Ed Winiarski
Inks Ed Winiarski
Notes Art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

5 page story "The Mystery that Couldn't be Solved!"

Synopsis Scientists send up monkeys into space twice and both times the rocket comes back empty. The scientists draw the erroneous conclusion that space disintegrates physiological matter and give up on space travel, but what actually happened was that the monkeys were taken prisoner by hostile aliens who plan to invade until they realize the monkeys are of limited intelligence. If such creatures could build and pilot a rocket, they reason, the Earth men must have many advanced weapons and so they call off the invasion.
Pencils Joe Sinnott
Inks Joe Sinnott