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Issue Details

Issue #118
Published September 1953
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "A World Goes Mad!/Moon Madness!/The Spotted Death!/The Magic Word!"

6 page story "Moon Madness!"

Synopsis A newspaper magnate wishes to build a private rocket to the moon in order to secure mineral rights so he spreads tales of the moon being the source of werewolves to get public pressure hindering the government's moon effort. It works, but when he arrives on the moon, he finds that everything he thought was a lie was in fact true.

5 page story "Typhoid"

Synopsis A couple come up with a fraud scheme to collect a life insurance policy during a typhoid outbreak and then actually encounter a carrier on the train they are leaving town on in order to spend the money in another state.

2 page text story "The Infernal Coach"

Letters typeset

3 page story "Noah"

Synopsis This time, Noah and his space ark leave Earth because of a protracted drought.

4 page story "The Magic Word"

Synopsis A magician threatens the life of a fakir unless he reveals his levitation trick so he gives him the magic word to rise but doesn't tell him the word to descend.

5 page story "When a World Went Mad!"

Synopsis A scientist gives the world a serum which grants immortal life, but without the fear of death, atomic war breaks out and ruins civilization.