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Issue Details

Issue #150
Published September 1956
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "I Plunged Into Darkness!"

4 page story "I Plunged Into Darkness!"

Synopsis A mountain climber meets a girl made of ice who saves his life and they fall in love. The ice people patriarch implants a mental block in the climber so that he will return to his own people, but it is less than 100% effective, because his love for her is so strong it produces repetitive falling dreams.
Script Stan Lee ?

4 page story "The House of Shadows!"

Synopsis Visitors from the future bring joy to a small town and then take the entire town with them back to the future.
Script Stan Lee ?

4 page story "The Shrinking Man!"

Synopsis A lab assistant knocks over a container filled with a new mold and thinks that the effect has shrunk him but it actually only works on inorganic matter and has enlarged the furniture and the house.
Script Stan Lee ?
Pencils Bob Powell
Inks Bob Powell

4 page story "The Man From Nowhere"

Synopsis A careless man summons a genie and wishes for wealth and power, but because he has failed to form the summoning circle correctly, the genie transforms him into a bum.
Script Stan Lee ?

2 page text story "The Recipe"

Characters Josie
Synopsis A tomboyish girl tries out cooking to appease her mother, but accidentally cooks a witch's brew, totally inappropriate for a fairy like her.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #8 (March 1960); in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #24 (October 1961); in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952) #84 (September 1962); in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #106 (March 1963); in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #51 (March 1964); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)

3 page story "Ultimate Weapon"

Synopsis Foreign powers kidnap a scientist and he builds a teleportation machine to return back home.
Script Stan Lee ?
Pencils Vic Carrabotta
Inks Vic Carrabotta
Reprinted in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #143; in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #171

4 page story "I'll Live Forever"

Synopsis A man finds an island where the people living there offer to make him immortal if he lives among them as a slave. He declines and returns home.
Script Stan Lee?
Pencils Gray Morrow
Inks Gray Morrow