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Issue Details

Issue #36
Published March 1955
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Hands of the Clock!"

5 page story "The Warning!"

Synopsis A creature from Jupiter in disguise as a human warns of an invasion from Venus. After the humans succeed in nuking the Venusians the creature gives a coast clear for the invasion from Jupiter.

2 page text story "How Many Others"

Characters Anthony Jones; Johnny
Synopsis A man runs into the descendant of gorillas that immigrated from the jungle to America.
Genre science fiction
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration. Narrated in the first person.
Reprinted from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #4 (December 1952) [originally titled "Out of the Jungle"]

5 page story "Which Wish, Dish...?"

Synopsis An evil woman gets her wish to be a beautiful, wealthy queen. However, as they lead her up the stairs to her fate, she protests that she did not wish to be...Marie Antoinette.
Pencils J. Scott Pike
Inks J. Scott Pike
Notes Art credits from atlastales.com.
Reprinted in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #15

4 page story "The Hands of the Clock!"

Synopsis A clock maker is arrested for breaking and entering when he tries to feed clocks oil that are being neglected by their owners, but he starves to death in jail because he needs oil for his internal components.

4 page story "The Eavesdropper!"

Synopsis Tony Neely is in a bar and overhears a couple planning a murder. The woman, Rose, intends on killing her husband for the insurance money. Her lover conspires with her and they leave the bar to seek out her husband. Tony decides that he can use what he knows to blackmail them. He tries following them through the shadowy streets as they search for Rose's husband. As Tony creeps closer, he accidentally kicks a discarded can alerting them to his presence. Rose turns around and Tony stares in horror as he realizes that the would-be murderess is his own wife. He is her intended victim.

5 page story "The World Champion"

Synopsis A Martian enters the Olympics and breaks records for every event, but when a human girl kisses him, he drops dead from bacterial infection.