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Issue Details

Issue #13
Published August 1958
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in April 1958. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "When Marty Moves!"

Characters Mary Kurth; Rocco Goore
Genre occult
Pencils Bill Everett [signed]
Inks Bill Everett [signed]

4 page story "The Unsolid Man"

Characters Arnold Benson; Roy Carnell; Martha Corbett
Synopsis A commie agitator flees the authorities on a rocket sled that is so fast it outdistances time and briefly allows him to him to walk through walls until time catches up with him.
Genre science fiction
Script Carl Wessler
Pencils Joe Orlando
Inks Joe Orlando
Notes Writer credit from the Timely/Atlas list.
Reprinted in Giant-Size Werewolf (Marvel, 1974 series) #5 (July 1975); in Curse of the Weird (Marvel, 1993 series) #2 (January 1994)

3 page story "What Happened on the Mountain!"

Characters George Randolph; Ed Harway; Ti-Beru
Synopsis A monk sells a mountain rich in uranium to two prospectors, but when one ignores his warning and tries to kill his partner, he is stranded on the peak when the bottom of the mountain vanishes.
Genre occult
Pencils Richard Bassford
Inks Richard Bassford

4 page story "The Man In The Cyclotron"

Characters Joe Ryzik; Rena Ryzik; Peter Ryzik; Luke Ryzik; Mr. Clauss; Dr. Kohazi
Synopsis An accident in a cyclotron gives a man knowledge of future weaponry. When he shares this knowledge with political authorities the country is put on a war footing and his sons are drafted, causing him to have misgivings. He reverses the accident which gave him his abilities and destroys the weapon plans.
Genre science fiction
Script Carl Wessler
Notes Writer credit from the Atlas/Timely list.

4 page story "The Chance I Took!"

Characters Mr. Fleming
Synopsis Aliens convince a cereal manufacturer to dope his product with a chemical that will make humans unaggressive and then tell him they will return in one year with a fleet to welcome them into the galactic federation. The man doesn't eat any of his own cereal, so when the fleet shows up, he wonders if the aliens haven't tricked him in order to allow an Earth conquest of docile humans?
Genre science fiction
Pencils Harry Lazarus
Inks Harry Lazarus
Notes Narrated in the first person.

4 page story "The Mysterious Inheritance"

Characters Jack Holten
Synopsis A man finds that instead of inheriting money from his rich uncle, he has inherited his ancestor's supernatural powers.
Genre occult
Pencils Ed Winiarski
Inks Ed Winiarski

2 page text story "The Wish"

Characters Tom Norton; Mr. Mason; Mr. Frank; Bobby Norton
Synopsis A real estate agent gains telepathy from a magic paper weight.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #24 (October 1955

4 page story "When Marty Moves"

Characters Mary Kurth; Marty; Rocco Goore
Synopsis An old woman adopts a doll brought to life by an accident. Her neighbor tries to take advantage of the doll, and tries to kill the woman when his plan fails. The doll sacrifices itself to save her.
Genre occult
Pencils Richard Doxsee
Inks Richard Doxsee
Reprinted in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #7 (December 1974)