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Issue Details

Issue #36
Published March 1958
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 68
Editing Pat Masulli

Cover Details

Genre occult
Pencils Maurice Whitman (signed)
Inks Maurice Whitman (signed)

5 page story "The Elixir"

Genre occult
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Reprinted in Steve Ditko's The Thing! (Pure Imagination, 2006 series) #nn

3 page story "The Shadow"

Genre occult
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Reprinted in Steve Ditko's The Thing! (Pure Imagination, 2006 series) #nn

5 page story "The Egg and...!"

Genre occult
Pencils Don Perlin (signed)
Inks Don Perlin (signed)
Notes Art identification by Frank Motler on the Charlton-l Yahoo Group (12/2008).

4 page story "The Best Policy"

Genre science fiction

5 page story "Great Performance "

Genre occult

2 page text story "But for Bluey"

Genre occult
Letters typeset

5 page Granny Broomstick story "Granny Broomstick's Tales for Taller Tots! -- Jack Spratt"

Genre occult; humor
Pencils Richard Doxsee?
Inks Richard Doxsee?
Notes Art identification by Frank Motler on the Charlton-l Yahoo Group (12/2008).

6 page story "Mystery Planet"

Genre science fiction
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Reprinted in Space War (Charlton, 1978 series) #34; in Steve Ditko: Space Wars (Vanguard Productions, 2005 series) #nn; in Steve Ditko Reader (Pure Imagination, 2002 series) #3

2 page story "The Ghostly Wanderer"

Genre occult
Pencils Maurice Whitman
Inks Maurice Whitman
Notes Art identification by Frank Motler on the Charlton-l Yahoo Group (12/2008).

5 page story "The Thing in the Swamp"

Genre occult

2 page story "The Strange World: The Thinking Ape"

Synopsis The true story of Johann Gregor Mendel, the "father of genetics".
Genre fact; history; science
Pencils Maurice Whitman
Inks Maurice Whitman
Notes Art identification by Frank Motler on the Charlton-l Yahoo Group (12/2008).

2 page text story "Paul's Pills"

Letters typeset

5 page story "Failure"

Genre occult
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Reprinted in Steve Ditko's The Thing! (Pure Imagination, 2006 series) #nn

1 page story "The Living Monsters"

Synopsis Brief, true story of the dinosaurs.
Genre non-fiction; history; science

6 page story "The Strange Package!"

Genre occult
Pencils Gene Colan
Inks Gene Colan
Notes Art identification by Allen Smith and Frank Motler on the Charlton-l Yahoo Group (12/2008).