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Issue Details

Issue #56
Published April 1957
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "The Wrong Choice!"

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

4 page story "The Man Who Went Too Far!"

Synopsis A scientist invents a cosmic magnet which brings down a ghost-like inhabitant of space. His partner thinks that capturing such a being for study is cruel and he knocks the magnet so that it tilts downward and pulls a similar dense creature up to the surface from the Earth's core.
Pencils Richard Doxsee
Inks Richard Doxsee
Notes Job number and art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

4 page story "They Won't Die!"

Synopsis A man finds that he and his friends all have Wolverine's healing factor. These humans with incredible healing powers are called the "other men.".
Pencils Pete Morisi
Inks Pete Morisi
Notes Job number and art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

4 page story "Your Life for Mine!"

Synopsis A scientist builds a time travel device that requires someone from the present return to the past if one from the past is brought forward. He switches places with an alchemist just as a mob is coming for him.
Pencils Marvin Stein
Inks Marvin Stein
Notes Job number and art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

1 page text story "It All Adds Up"

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Notes This sequence from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.
Reprinted from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #31 (May 1955) [originally titled "The Ice Age"]

4 page story "The Wrong Choice!"

Synopsis A pirate captain finds himself in Atlantis and granted one wish. He wishes to be seven feet tall and strong as a bull so he can strong arm the Atlanteans but they are all much bigger and more powerful than that.
Pencils Werner Roth
Inks Werner Roth
Notes Job number and art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010. Features the legendary city of Atlantis, first described in Timaeus and Critias by Plato (360 BC).

4 page story "The Voice in the Night!"

Synopsis In 1944 a captured US soldier hates the German sergeant who goads him into attempting an escape after he finishes carving a wooden doll for his daughter. During the attempt, the man hears a voice coming from the doll giving instructions on how to elude the enemy patrols, and many years later sees the German sergeant giving a ventriloquist performance. He realizes the sergeant had aided him in gaining his freedom.
Pencils Frank W. Bolle
Inks Frank W. Bolle
Notes Job number and art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

statement of ownership "Statement of Ownership"

Script Monroe Froehlich, Jr.
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Notes For 1 October 1956. Stan Lee, Editor; Martin Goodman, Managing Editor; Monroe Froehlich, Jr., Business Manager.

3 page story "The Impossible"

Synopsis Once a ship-in-a-bottle is pulled out of a tub of water it had fallen into, radio S.O.S. signals that had been received cease.
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett
Notes Job number and art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.