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Issue Details

Issue #44
Published March 1957
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Some information for this index from Gary Watson, September 2009.

Cover Details - "The Haunted Halls!"

Pencils Bill Everett (signed)
Inks Bill Everett (signed)
Notes Everett's initials can be found on the woman's lapels. This information from Gary Watson, September 2009.

4 page story "The Menace of the Green Men"

Synopsis Light images of aliens from space become the fall guy of a crook in a series of planned robberies.
Pencils Al Williamson
Inks Al Williamson

4 page story "While the City Sleeps"

Synopsis A midget who poses as a ventriloquist's doll in order to pull off heists has a chemist friend who works on suspended animation pills as a hobby. He takes one that is supposed to last for twenty-four hours to throw the police off his trail, but the panicked chemist shows up at his apartment claiming he accidentally gave him a pill that lasts twenty years.
Pencils Doug Wildey
Inks Doug Wildey
Reprinted in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #119

4 page story "The Strange Power of Henry Grey"

Synopsis A man finds he has the power to project his spirit across distance. He uses this ability to do evil to people as he is a hateful person. When he tries to force his business partner out by dive bombing him at the controls of a model airplane, the wing breaks off and the resulting crash breaks the bones of his real body.
Pencils Ed Winiarski
Inks Ed Winiarski
Notes Art identification from atlastales.com.

4 page story "The Taboo"

Synopsis When a sailor upstages a native witch doctor, the witch doctor maroons the sailor on a small island surrounded by sharks.
Pencils Tony DiPreta (signed)
Inks Tony DiPreta (signed)

2 page text story "The Heat's On"

Characters John Tyler; Mary Tyler; Bobby Tyler
Synopsis When a young boy builds a fan to help his family get through a heat wave it brings down the flying saucer that caused the heat.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Letters typeset
Notes The story has two illustrations; at least one is by Heck. All future reprints of "The Fan" are titled "The Heat's On"
Reprinted from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #37 (November 1955) [originally titled "The Fan"]; in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #1 (January 1959); in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #63 (December 1960); in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #25 (January 1962); in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #82 (July 1962); in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #108 (May 1963); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)

3 page story "The Outcast"

Synopsis A telepath who works for the police department is shunned by others because of his ability until he saves a trapped boy.
Pencils Vince Colletta
Inks Vince Colletta

4 page story "The Haunted Halls"

Synopsis When a man enters a castle, he becomes the resident ghost.
Pencils Frank Bolle
Inks Frank Bolle