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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published June 1959
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in March 1959. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person unless otherwise specified. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "Manhunt on Mars!"

Characters Anton Volochek
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Christopher Rule

5 page story "Journey to Jupiter!"

Characters Glenn Scott; Julie Scott
Synopsis In the future the only planet closed to the others is Jupiter, surrounded by an impenetrable force field. A space pilot gets through the field by tempting the inhabitant's curiosity with a black box, which turns out to be empty.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Joe Sinnott
Inks Joe Sinnott
Notes Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

2 page text story "Over the Moon"

Characters Mr. Collins; Jim
Synopsis A science fiction movie director gets some help from a real alien and flying saucer, but the film bombs when the footage of the saucer is dismissed as too phony-looking.
Genre science fiction
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #51 (October 1956)

5 page story "A Magician Walks Among Us!"

Characters Prof. Dolen ["Merlin"]; King Arthur
Synopsis A time traveler journeys into the past seeking Merlin and ends up becoming Merlin.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes Narrated in the third person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

4 page story "The Man Without a Past!"

Synopsis A man working on a futuristic assembly line panics when he realizes that he has no memory. The factory foreman deactivates him, since this is a common malfunction of overly-advanced robots.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Notes Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

4 page story "I Was the Changing Man!"

Characters Duncan Sloane; Emmerich Fabius; Vincent Stalwart; Alfonso Galvez
Synopsis A man invents a machine that allows him to take over anyone's body and tries to use it to gain the perfect life, but finds that he cannot predict what misfortunes may befall the people he takes the place of.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Al Williamson
Inks Al Williamson
Notes Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

5 page story "Manhunt on Mars!"

Characters Anton Volochek
Synopsis A dissident in a communist country escapes to Mars, but barely escapes from the hostile Martians. When he returns home he is a hero for his journey, and is able to escape to the West, where he warns them of the aliens, and explains that he convinced the communist leadership to go to Mars unarmed, hoping they will be killed.
Genre science fiction
Pencils John Buscema
Inks John Buscema
Notes Job number speculative based on other stories' number.