Issue | #41 |
Published | May 1956 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Bill Everett |
Inks | Bill Everett |
Letters | typeset |
Synopsis | Leonardo Da Vinci builds a spacecraft and sends it off to populate an entire planet with robots. |
Pencils | Mort Drucker |
Inks | Mort Drucker |
Notes | Features Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). |
Synopsis | A cruel sea captain is cursed until he can find a crew that will serve under him willingly and respect him but the leopard seems unable to change his spots. |
Pencils | John Romita |
Notes | Features a sea captain named Josiah Wedgwood; no relation to the English potter Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795). |
Reprinted | in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #4 |
Synopsis | When a timid fellow buys a mirror at an auction, it turns him into a real man. |
Pencils | Ed Winiarski |
Inks | Ed Winiarski |
Synopsis | The statue of the Dutch boy plugs the hole in the dike with his finger. |
Pencils | Kurt Schaffenberger |
Inks | Kurt Schaffenberger |
Notes | Inspired by the story of the "Hero of Haarlem," the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike, first told in "Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates" by Mary Mapes Dodge (1865). |
Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #20 |
Letters | typeset |
Synopsis | When a man tries to use a handsome mask to get rich women to marry him they keep dissolving as he proposes. When he has a change in attitude and tries to help a poor girl, he is honest with her that he is only wearing a mask, but when he removes it he finds his homely face has now come to resemble the handsome mask. |
Synopsis | A new metal worker at the shop builds a flying saucer out of scraps during his spare time to leave Earth. |
Pencils | Paul Reinman |
Inks | Paul Reinman |