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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published February 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes All art credits for this issue confirmed with Dick Ayers by Gary Watson, May 2008.

Cover Details - "We'll camp in this valley tonight...

Synopsis Adventurers are camped in a giant footprint that they think is a valley.
Genre horror; adventure
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes All art credits for this issue confirmed with Dick Ayers by Gary Watson, May 2008.

1 page story "To Be Young Again!"

Characters Henry Forrest; Ainsley
Synopsis Scientist Ainsley invents a youth serum at the Forrest Research Foundation. Owner Henry Forrest secretly injects the serum and is turned into a newborn baby.
Genre horror
Script Paul Newman [?]
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Inside front cover; black and white

8 page story "Too Late!"

Characters Emanuel Maxwell; Gretchen; Hans
Synopsis Emanuel Maxwell, a brilliant scientist, goes to a mountain resort for rest. He falls in love with Gretchen. Her companion, Hans, taunts Maxwell into climbing a mountain with him. They are falling into a crevasse when Maxwell wakes from a dream with a climbing rope around his waist. He plans to lead a rescue party to Hans, then propose to Gretchen.
Genre horror; occult
Script Paul Newman [?]
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Dick Ayers

5 page story "Don't Throw That Switch!"

Characters Frank; Lester
Synopsis Mad scientist Lester invents a "Gravity Suspendor". His college friend Frank rushes to stop him. A flash of lightning supposedly stops Lester from activating the device. Lester gets a mental block and forgets the whole project. In the last panel, Lester's house and Frank's car are slowly settling back to Earth.
Genre science fiction
Script Paul Newman [?]
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Confusing plot

2 page text story "The First"

Characters Bill Jensen [captain]; Marie Jensen [chemist]; Dr. Brant ; Helen Brant [zoologist]; Sally Marks [biologist]; Frank Marks [navigator]
Synopsis A space ship carrying three married couples, all scientists, overshoots the moon and lands on Mars. They discover that Mars is habitable.
Letters typeset

5 page story "They Come to the Canyon"

Characters Mr. Baxter; Mr. Hodges
Synopsis Mr. Baxter, a circus owner, hires Mr. Hodges, a guide, to find a race of giants. The search is actually part of a giant's nightmare.
Script Paul Newman [?]
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Cover story; confusing plot

1 page story "Strange"

Synopsis A man who casts no shadow marries a woman who casts no shadow, then leaves her when he discovers that she also has no mirror reflection.
Genre occult; horror
Script Paul Newman[?]
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes nonsensical plot

5 page story "Gratitude on a Very Dark Night"

Characters John Dunn
Synopsis Old John Dunn is kind to everyone, even his scarecrow. He withdraws all of his savings to give to his granddaughter for her wedding. A robber who plans to steal it fails when he is terrorized by the scarecrow's shadow -- on a moonless night!
Genre horror; occult
Script Paul Newman[?]
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Dick Ayers

6 page story "Both of Me in Budapest!"

Characters Ivan Kreisler
Synopsis Mad scientist Ivan Kreisler invents a beam that makes a duplicate of himself that he can telepathically direct by staying perfectly immobile. While directing the duplicate to rob a bank, he is struck by a police van driven by a technician who is tracking the telepathic waves.
Genre science fiction; horror
Script Paul Newman[?]
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes silly plot!

1 page story "Rendezvous"

Synopsis An automobile makes its rendezvous with a speeding train. The driver is a crash test dummy, demonstrating to the four shadowy figures (and the reader) not to ignore the stop signs at railroad crossings.
Genre horror; fact
Script Paul Newman [?]
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes inside back cover; black and white

1 page story "The Last Robot"

Synopsis A bald, monocled leader destroys the special investigator robot that was manufactured to destroy all other robots, saving mankind from robotic dominance.
Genre science fiction
Script Paul Newman [?]
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Back cover