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Issue Details

Issue #41
Published November 1955
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "The Test!"

5 page story "The Test!"

Synopsis An experimental psychologist conducting tests on hamsters has a dream wherein they become so intelligent that they escape their cages and turn the tables on him subjecting him to electric shocks whenever he attempts to leave the house. When he awakes from the dream, he terminates his intelligence enhancing experiment and gives the hamsters away as pets.
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Dick Ayers
Reprinted in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #9

2 page text story "The Genius"

4 page story "They Pass By Night!"

Synopsis This story attempts to build drama by leading the reader to believe that a bus and a car are going to collide during the night but the last panel reveals the bus was traveling on the planet Mercury and so there was no danger of collision between the two vehicles.
Reprinted in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Cass, 1962 series) #231

5 page story "I Can Hear You Think!"

Synopsis After the first atomic bomb explodes children are born with the ability to read minds, which the government put to use as a tactical defense against the Communists.
Pencils Vic Carrabotta (signed)
Inks Vic Carrabotta (signed)
Reprinted in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #9; in Suspense Stories (Alan class, 1963 series) #161

4 page story "The Man Who Took A Walk!"

Synopsis A man from Atlantis tours the scientific achievements of the surface world.

5 page story "One Who Dared"

Synopsis Mankind retreats from atomic horror to live underground for so many years that the past is forgotten and no one recalls why they had to leave the surface. One boy finds that he cannot be like the others and simply accept the situation so he takes the last remaining shaft up to the surface world. Opening the hatch sets off an alarm and the rest of the security detail follow him up to the surface where they discover a new paradise.
Pencils Mort Lawrence (signed)
Inks Mort Lawrence (signed)
Notes Signed M.L. on first page.
Reprinted in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #9; in Suspense Stories (Alan Class, 1963 series) #161