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Issue Details

Issue #47
Published March 1956
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett
Notes Credit information from www.atlastales.com.

5 page story "Spaceship in My Barn"

Synopsis A reporter is frustrated to meet alien visitors and fail to acquire pictures or evidence of any kind for their landing on Earth.
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett
Notes Job Number information from www.atlastales.com.
Reprinted in Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #23

1 page text story "The Message"

Characters Bill Benson; J.B. White
Synopsis An unhappy foundry worker finds a message from a prisoner and rushes to help, finding that the message was merely a test of courage, and that his actions have gained him his dream job.
Genre adventure
Letters typeset
Notes Last page split with advertisement.
Reprinted in World of Suspense (Marvel, 1956 series) #7 (April 1957) [as "The Prisoner"]; in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #125 (October 1964) [page 1]

5 page story "The Man Who Looked for Death!"

Synopsis A reporter seeks out a historical novelist who turns out to be immortal.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Joe Orlando
Inks Joe Orlando
Notes Credit and Job Number information from www.atlastales.com.

4 page story "The Fat Man!"

Synopsis A human-looking visitor from Saturn must eat enough to weigh 250 lbs otherwise he will float upwards in Earth's lighter gravity.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Larry Woromay
Inks Larry Woromay
Notes Credit and Job Number information from www.atlastales.com.

4 page story "Eve of Halloween!"

Synopsis A witch and her daughter go out riding on Halloween.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Ed Winiarski
Inks Ed Winiarski
Notes Credit and Job Number information from www.atlastales.com.

5 page story "The Hypnotist!"

Synopsis A boxer becomes champ under hypnosis.
Pencils Bernie Krigstein (signed)
Inks Bernie Krigstein (signed)
Notes Job Number information from www.atlastales.com.
Reprinted in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #19