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Issue Details

Issue #40
Published August 1955
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "The Deep Freeze!"

Pencils Carl Burgos
Inks Carl Burgos
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5 page story "The Deep Freeze"

Synopsis When a man discovers that he has a man frozen in the ice cake that he has purchased he goes down to the local warehouse only to confront the manager who reveals himself to be a neanderthal (when the temperature rises) who is selling people suspended animation.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Mac Pakula
Inks Mac Pakula
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2 page text story "The Amazing Book"

Letters typeset
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Reprinted from Adventure Into Mystery (Marvel, 1956 series) #4 (November 1956) [as "The Jinni"]

4 page story "The Merry-Go-Round"

Synopsis A merry-go-round ride provides two young lovers with the financial means they need to become wed.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Art Peddy
Inks Art Peddy

5 page story "Anything Can Happen!"

Genre science fiction
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Ernie Bache
Notes A story somewhat similar to "Those Who Change" in Amazing Adult Fantasy #10, but instead of using the time travel gimmick, this story merely stipulates two professors discussing infinite possible worlds. Credit Information and Job Number supplied by www.atlastales.com.

5 page story "Xplam for Sale!"

Synopsis A mysterious sidewalk salesman gets people to pay him twenty-five cents for absolutely nothing. When he gives one away to a skeptic, and he wishes for a five course meal and it appears, he tries to find the salesman who has vanished.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Mort Lawrence
Inks Mort Lawrence
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5 page story "Fair Exchange"

Synopsis Spacemen think that they've made a great deal when they trade their food to aliens for the mineral rights to a planet consisting mostly of uranium but the aliens are merely visitors.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Bob Powell
Inks Bob Powell
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