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Issue Details

Issue #149
Published August 1956
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Among the Missing!"

Genre Monster; Horror
Pencils Bill Everett (signed)
Inks Bill Everett (signed)
Notes Pencil and ink credits from Martin Volkhammer (October 1, 2005) based on Everett's signature on the cover on the wooden fence to the right of the monsters right hand.

4 page story "Among the Missing!"

Synopsis A prospector returns for the man who staked his expedition when he finds a city of marble and gold, but the man thinks his tales are the result of sunstroke and doesn't believe him, until he sees photographic proof, and then he spends years in the wild attempting to find the prospector and the golden city.
Script Stan Lee ?
Pencils Rocco Mastroserio ?
Inks Rocco Mastroserio ?

4 page story "The Last Warning!"

Synopsis A woman has a premonition that her pilot husband is going to crash, but despite several of her dream details matching reality, he lands safely.
Script Stan Lee ?
Pencils Vic Carrabotta
Inks Vic Carrabotta

4 page story "Charlie's Choice!"

Synopsis An employee finds that by turning the hands of his factory's time clock he can enter the time dimension where no one is aware of his presence.
Script Stan Lee ?
Pencils Frank Bolle
Inks Frank Bolle

4 page story "The Broken Man!"

Synopsis Castaways attempt to subdue one of their number whom they feel has cracked from the strain of island living.
Script Stan Lee ?
Pencils Tony Mortellaro (signed)
Inks Tony Mortellaro (signed)

2 page text story "Palace of Truth"

Characters Franz; Mr. Joseff; Marianne Le Brun
Synopsis A shy and artistic tour guide wins the love of a wealthy girl when an unknown force alters his painting to make it a proposal.
Genre occult; romance
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #61 (February 1958) [as "The Miracle Painting"]

3 page story "Stop Us If You've Read This Before"

Script Stan Lee ?
Pencils Jim Infantino
Inks Jim Infantino
Notes The same story as "Not Wanted" from Marvel Tales #116 with the addition that the story takes place on a planet populated by anthropomorphic dogs.

4 page story "The Thief!"

Synopsis In the year 2095 an immortality serum is developed and stolen by a ruthless man. He is pursued off planet by the authorities but then his rocket runs out of fuel on a lifeless asteroid. He decides that eternal life would be a curse on this barren asteroid so he swallows fluid from a bottle marked poison in order to end it all, but when he reads through the theft victim's notes, he's shocked to learn that the serum developer hid the serum inside the poison bottle.
Script Stan Lee ?
Pencils Joe Orlando
Inks Joe Orlando