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Issue Details

Issue #78
Published November 1956
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Richard E. Hughes
Notes Indicia states "published Monthly except March and May ... by Best Syndicated Features".

Cover Details - "Beware the Ides of March!"

Genre Horror
Pencils Ogden Whitney (signed)
Inks Ogden Whitney (signed)
Notes Indicia states "published Monthly except March and May ... by Best Syndicated Features".

8 page story "Rosie and Red Russia!"

Characters Rosie; Vanya Tchekov
Synopsis Russian scientists capture an alien with special powers, but it turns out the alien was studying the scientists just as much as the scientists were studying the alien.
Genre Science Fiction
Pencils Ogden Whitney (signed)
Inks Ogden Whitney (signed)

1 page text story "Fabulous Animal"

Characters Adam Collier
Synopsis Adam Collier, an archeologist, proves that unicorns existed.
Genre Science Fiction
Letters Typeset

3 page Uncanny Mysteries story "The Case of the Vanishing Indian"

Characters Ed Morris; Os-Kee-Da
Synopsis Ed Morris, a rancher, gets into an accident and is saved by the ghost of an Indian with a withered arm.
Genre Science Fiction
Pencils Pete Costanza ?

8 page story "Beware the Ides of March"

Characters Tony Blake [Julius Caesar]
Synopsis Tony Blake goes through life having accidents on the 15th of March every year, and knows Latin without having been taught it. He becomes a brilliant military strategist and everything he does echoes the life of Julius Caesar.
Genre Science Fiction
Pencils John Rosenberger [as John R]
Inks John Rosenberger [as John R]

1 page letters page "Let's Talk It Over!"

Synopsis Letters to the editor.
Letters Typeset

4 page story "The Second Mrs. Manion!"

Characters Bill Manion; Lady Cynthia Conway
Synopsis Lady Cynthia Conway gets into a car accident on her way to meet Bill Manion and can't meet him. Strangely, though, her spirit somehow gets split in two and half of her lies in a hospital bed in England, the other half goes to the United States and marries Mr. Manion.
Genre Science Fiction
Pencils Creig Flessel ?
Inks Creig Flessel ?
Reprinted In Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #130

3 page What's Behind That Superstition story "What's Behind That Superstition? No. 1: The Broken Mirror"

Characters Dr. Orin Blakely; Al Barrone
Synopsis Dr. Orin Blakely of the Institute of Psychic Research explains the origins of the superstitions surrounding breaking mirrors.
Genre Fact; Science Fiction
Pencils Pete Costanza ?; ?
Inks Pete Costanza ?; ?