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Issue Details

Issue #51
Published March 1957
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "untitled"

Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett
Letters typeset

4 page story "Inside the Mummy Case"

Characters Joe Waters; Mr. Stern
Synopsis An undead mummy attempts to slay a museum guard by using telepathic suggestion to get him to open a booby-trapped section of the mummy case.
Genre Occult
Pencils Joe Orlando (signed)
Inks Joe Orlando (signed)
Reprinted in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #16 (April 1975)

4 page story "The Lizard"

Pencils Al Williamson
Inks Ralph Mayo

3 page story "What World Is This?"

Synopsis A thief hiding from his pursuers makes a wish that time would stand still. After he succeeds in evading his pursuers, he comes upon a town where the people appear to be frozen and he thinks this is due to his wish, until he hears a plane. He goes outside to look at the plane and notices a sign reading 'atom city' and recalls reading an article in the paper about a mock city constructed by scientists in order to gauge the devastation of the atom bomb and realizes that the people he saw must be dummies. He looks up at the plane, and sees a small object drop from the bombbay doors.
Pencils Ross Andru
Inks Mike Esposito

4 page story "The Strange Seeds!"

Pencils Ed Winiarski
Inks Ed Winiarski
Notes Anti-communism story.

1 page text story "All In The Mind"

Letters typeset
Notes Job number suggests a reprint from an unknown source.

4 page story "I'll Get You Later"

Pencils Davy Berg
Inks Davy Berg

Half page text article "Statement of Ownership"

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

4 page story "Four Empty Chairs!"

Synopsis A man's family disappears one evening and a stranger explains to the town sheriff that they are from another dimension waiting for a lightning bolt of sufficient strength to send them all back to their home dimension. The sheriff thinks the story is nonsense but suddenly a powerful lightning bolt flashes and both the stranger and the man have disappeared as well.
Pencils Marvin Stein
Inks Marvin Stein
Reprinted In Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #9