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Issue Details

Issue #48
Published April 1956
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "It Happened at Midnight!"

Pencils Carl Burgos
Inks Carl Burgos
Notes Credit information from www.atlastales.com.

4 page story "It Happened at Midnight!"

Synopsis A writer thinks up a story about aliens from another dimension who pull a man off the street at midnight and then the same thing happens to him, but the men identity themselves as FBI men looking for an undesirable alien.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Bill Benulis
Inks Bill Benulis
Notes Credit and Job Number information from www.atlastales.com.

3 page story "One of Our Ships is Missing!"

Synopsis Trains, planes, and bicycles disappear as the Martian king seeks a gift for his son, the prince.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett
Notes Credit and Job Number information from www.atlastales.com.

4 page story "The Man Behind the Mask!"

Synopsis A wealthy miller conducts acts of charity behind a wooden mask, but when events turn for the worse and he has nothing left to contribute, he makes one last trip. As he waits alone with no food, he is surprised to receive gifts from the people he has helped. They tell him that they saw it was him on his last visit, but he says he was wearing the mask. When he takes it out and looks at it, he is astonished to see that it now resembles his face.
Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte
Notes Forte credit by Michael J. Vassallo , 2002-12-03 (Per Sandell ed.) Job Number information from www.atlastales.com.

2 page text story "The Plants"

Letters Typeset

4 page story "The Thing in the Box!"

Synopsis People find a small box with a mirror inside that shows them their true faces.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Ed Winiarski
Inks Ed Winiarski
Notes Credit and Job Number information from www.atlastales.com.

4 page story "There's No Tomorrow"

Synopsis A pirate captures a gypsy scow and a gypsy foretells that the captain's experience tomorrow will be to be stuck in a gale and arrested by the Spanish army. A day goes by uneventfully, but the next day, the prophecy comes true and the captain resolves to hunt down the Gypsy for working her magic on Thursday instead of Wednesday as she said. His Spanish jailers inform him that it is Wednesday, as the gale has pushed his ship across the international date line.
Pencils Bob Powell
Inks Bob Powell
Notes Job Number information from www.atlastales.com.
Reprinted in Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #17

4 page story "When Ends the Dream!"

Synopsis Four sailors find an island where their dreams come true.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Jay Scott Pike
Inks Jay Scott Pike
Notes Credit and Job Number information from www.atlastales.com.