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Issue Details

Issue #52
Published April 1957
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "The Mystery of the Silent Fog!"

Pencils John Severin
Inks John Severin
Letters typeset

4 page story "Mystery of the Silent Fog!"

Synopsis When a typical American small town finds itself being transported through space the mayor hits upon the idea of ordering all the townspeople to dress outlandishly and do crazy things in the street so that they won't be typical and the aliens will lose interest in studying them. It works.
Pencils Bernard Baily
Inks Bernard Baily

4 page story "The Fish Men!"

Synopsis Fish men plot to take over the surface, but when they actually venture up there, they find the limitless space psychologically discomforting and the sun burns their skin. They return to the home beneath the waves that they are familiar with.
Pencils Marvin Stein
Inks Marvin Stein
Notes Features the legendary city of Atlantis, first described in Timaeus and Critias by Plato (360 BC).

2 page text story "The Broken Statue"

Letters typeset
Reprinted from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #147 (June 1956) [originally titled "The Boaster"]

4 page story "The Betrayer"

Synopsis A soldier who had amnesia in the war feels driven to find out the name of the one who betrayed his squad to the Germans so he pulls a gun on the mayor of the town the ambush occurred in to make him talk. The mayor begs him to let the past rest, but the man insists. The mayor tells him that his amnesia has prevented him from recalling that he is the betrayer.
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Dick Ayers

3 page story "The Too-Perfect Crime!"

Synopsis A car thief invents a camera that allows him to shrink cars. The police become suspicious of him when multiple cars that he has photographed are reported as stolen and pay him a visit. He turns the camera on himself and after he has shrunk down, realizes that he has no way to activate the camera to restore himself to normal size.
Pencils Pete Morisi
Inks Pete Morisi

4 page story "The City That Died!"

Synopsis A man stumbles over a 'light image' of an Aztec city that died hundreds of years ago. The image disappears, and the man misplaces his treasure.
Pencils Ed Winiarski
Inks Ed Winiarski

4 page story "Midnight on the Moor!"

Pencils Mort Drucker
Inks Mort Drucker
Notes A "Hound of the Baskervilles"-type story.