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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published July 1956
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "The Man on the Thirteenth Floor!"

Genre horror
Pencils Sol Brodsky
Inks Sol Brodsky
Letters typeset

4 page story "The Straw Man"

Synopsis When a gaseous alien sees a scarecrow, it mistakes it for an example of Earth's dominant life form, and tries to possess it. A tramp sees the scarecrow moving and drops his cigarette in the hay from shock. The fire burns up the scarecrow and the alien leaves Earth, removing the threat.
Pencils Mac L. Pakula
Inks Mac L. Pakula

4 page story "The Man Who Saw the Saucer"

Synopsis A man perpetrates a hoax about a flying saucer landing and him being contacted by the aliens. His hoax is uncovered, and when Martians do land and give him the secrets of prosperity, he attempts to share this information and is not believed.
Pencils Bob McCarty
Inks Bob McCarty
Notes Newspaper on page 3 is the Daily Bugle.

4 page story "A Woman Screamed"

Synopsis A timid man tries to hypnotize himself into being bold but fails.
Pencils Ross Andru
Inks Mike Esposito ?
Notes Doc V. believes there is a case for the inker being Jack Abel.

4 page story "The Betrayer!"

Synopsis A man travels into the past and gains a great deal of wealth through war profiteering, but when he returns to the present, he realizes all his money is in confederate dollars.
Pencils Bill Benulis
Inks Bill Benulis

2 page text story "The Treasure"

Letters typeset
Reprinted in Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #61 (May 1957) [as "The Treasure Seekers"]

3 page story "The Man on the Thirteenth Floor!"

Synopsis When his elevator cable breaks, on man finds himself on the 13th floor in another dimension.
Pencils Paul Cooper ?; Chris Rule ?
Inks Paul Cooper; Chris Rule ?
Notes Uncertain which person is inks and which is pencils.

4 page story "Among Those Missing!"

Synopsis People of the year 2160 kidnap great scientists of the present day in order to help with their stagnant culture. The last recruit convinces them to let the men return and contribute their knowledge to the present day.
Pencils Manny Stallman
Inks Manny Stallman
Notes Newspaper on page 1 is the Frisco Bugle.