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Issue Details

Issue #55
Published January 1957
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Contents from www.atlastales.com.

Cover Details

Pencils Bill Everett (signed)
Inks Bill Everett (signed)
Notes Forte credits by Michael J. Vassallo , 2002-12-03 (Per Sandell ed.) Everett credits by Stéphane PETIT (signed).

4 page story "Out of the Fog!"

Synopsis A man goes back in time to Arthur's court and attempts to make himself king, but he lacks the knowledge of metallurgy and chemistry to build 20th century weapons and gadgets so he becomes Arthur's sorcerer Merlin.
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck

4 page story "The Empty Cell!"

Synopsis A man from Uranus attempts to recruit Earth convicts to leave on his home planet but they can't alter their criminal behavior and the king sends them back to their cell on Earth.
Pencils Ted Galindo
Inks Ted Galindo

4 page story "The Man Everybody Feared!"

Synopsis A scientist working on biochemical weapons hallucinates that the people he comes across in a small town are real when they are in fact a model created for an atomic bomb test.

4 page story "What Happened to Alice Prim?"

Synopsis A fortune teller makes a prediction that a tall, dark man will be the end of Miss Prim...and it is when he makes her Mrs. Smith.

2 page text story "The Amazing Money Tree"

Characters Billy Anderson; Tom Anderson; Amy Anderson
Synopsis A young boy's father scoffs when his son tries to grow a money tree, but the world is astonished when he succeeds.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Reprinted from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #39 (November 1955) [originally titled "The Money Tree"]

3 page story "Whirlpool!"

Synopsis A man finds himself in a strange city beneath the whirlpool that exists only for those brave enough to challenge the whirlpool, but when he steals some of their gold, they condemn him to return to the outside world moments before he plunges into the whirlpool.

4 page story "The Folks Who Faded Away"

Synopsis A new bobsled goes so fast that its riders find events in time have to catch up to them.
Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte