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Issue Details

Issue #25
Published July 1955
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010)

5 page story "The Man Who Lost Himself"

Synopsis Aliens remove a man's memory so that he will not disclose their presence.
Pencils Vic Carrabotta
Inks Vic Carrabotta
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010)

1 page text story "Make a Wish"

Characters Gerald Harper; Jimmy Gordon; Mrs. Gordon; Mr. Gordon
Synopsis A man invents a wishing machine but loses the prototype on the way to the patent office.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Reprinted in World of Suspense (Marvel, 1956 series) #6 (February 1957) [as "The Wishing Machine"]; in World of Fantasy (Marvel, 1956 series) #11 (April 1958); in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #83 (April 1961); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010)

4 page story "At Your Service!"

Synopsis This story is told from the point of view of a genie who makes selfish wishes boomerang on people but grants unlimited wishes to the selfless.
Pencils Jack Katz ?
Inks Jack Katz ?
Notes Art credits and job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010)

4 page story "The Little Man!"

Synopsis A man who thinks himself unimportant unintentionally foils a plot of a couple of terrorists to bomb the UN building.
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010)

5 page story "Foster's Fate!"

Synopsis A soldier wants his buddy to meet his sister but he has already fallen for a girl he's met. As he travels from place to place he sees this girl and her family repeatedly, but each time, she gives him a different family name. When the war ends, he returns to the houses he ate with these people, but they are empty and the neighbors claim no one with that name ever lived there. Confused, he goes back to the states and meets his buddy's family, who look just like the people he encountered.
Pencils Ann Brewster
Inks Ann Brewster
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010)

5 page story "Miracle On Maple Street!"

Synopsis A puppeteer's puppets exhibit excellent carpentry skills to give an old town a makeover in response to a mayor's request.
Pencils Joe Sinnott
Inks Joe Sinnott
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010)