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Issue Details

Issue #45
Published July 1956
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Pencils Sol Brodsky?
Inks Sol Brodsky?

4 page story "An Hour To Live"

Synopsis A man given three months to live builds a time machine which takes him to a point in the future where Earth's oxygen is diminishing with only a few hours left.
Pencils Bill Benulis
Inks Bill Benulis

4 page story "Behind the Wall"

Synopsis A man who resents the Great Wall of China as taking up resources that could have accelerated scientific progress finds himself back in time at its construction. He confronts the emperor who reveals that the wall was not built to keep out the Tartars, but rather alien invaders who ride dragon-like beasts and use gunpowder weapons.
Pencils Gene Colan

4 page story "The Men With Green Blood"

Synopsis A doctor treats a wounded patient with green blood, but the patient dies and the blood color reverts to red. After he leaves the clinic, two people tail him but he manages to give them the slip and follow them back to a house where he learns they are mutants. A fire starts, and he escapes, but he suffers a cut during the experience and learns that he is a mutant as well.
Pencils Herb Familton
Inks Herb Familton

4 page story "Inside the Pit"

Synopsis A woman berates her husband for not being ambitious and he has an accident at the power plant which changes his personality. He attempts to extort the city by threatening to detonate the power plant, but another accident is arranged which puts his personality back the way it was and his wife is content.
Pencils Pete Morisi
Inks Pete Morisi

4 page story "The Hand"

Pencils George Roussos
Inks George Roussos

2 page text story "Movie Marvel"

Letters typeset
Reprinted in World of Fantasy (Marvel, 1956 series) #9 (December 1957) [as "Movie Maker"]

3 page story "The Cure"

Synopsis A doctor uses a time machine to try and wipe out the common cold virus in the past, but when he returns to the present he finds it overrun with beetles that the cold virus had destroyed before he mucked with time.
Pencils Robert Sale
Inks Robert Sale