Issue | #61 |
Published | February 1958 |
Frequency | bi-monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in September 1957. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Some information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion list. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
Genre | occult |
Pencils | Bill Everett |
Inks | Bill Everett |
Notes | This cover does not depict the story within. |
Characters | Nicholas Flood |
Synopsis | A landlord squeezes a Haitian laundress for more rent and is made ill by voodoo. He has her deported, but the box holding the pills to cure him contains only more boxes, one within the next. |
Genre | occult |
Pencils | Paul Reinman |
Inks | Paul Reinman |
Characters | Burt Malone; Mysto the Mystic |
Synopsis | A race car driver refuses to drive after he sees a ghost. His manager thinks it is a hallucination, and pays a mystic to convince him it is safe, but the reappearance of the ghost after the mystic’s crystal breaks suggests that it is real. |
Genre | occult |
Pencils | Dick Giordano ? |
Inks | Dick Giordano ? |
Notes | Art identified as Dick Giordano by Dr. Michael Vassallo, some other sources credit Doug Wildey. |
Characters | Franz; Mr. Joseff; Marianne Le Brun |
Synopsis | A shy and artistic tour guide wins the love of a wealthy girl when an unknown force alters his painting to make it a proposal. |
Genre | occult; romance |
Letters | typeset |
Reprinted | from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #149 (August 1956) [originally titled "Palace of Truth"] |
Characters | Farrell; Ellis; Clay |
Synopsis | A scientist who disappeared years ago returns, explaining that he is now king of an alternate dimension. His greedy friend hopes to take over the dimension for himself, but ends up imprisoned indefinitely. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Ed Winiarski |
Inks | Ed Winiarski |
Characters | Raynor; Garson |
Synopsis | A scientist thinks he has invented a machine to give life to reflections in a mirror, but when he tests it he realizes that he himself is a reflection. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Bernard Baily |
Inks | Bernard Baily |
Characters | Lester Morse; Jim Andrews; Ruth Andrews; Hampton |
Synopsis | A man tries to ruin his partner and romantic rival. He overpowers a ray intended to capture a lion and it explodes. He seems to be blown into the past and hides for a year, but actually the ray's malfunction created a dinosaur out of a fossil, and his partner became rich in his absence. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Al Eadeh |
Inks | Al Eadeh |
Characters | Jeff Corley; Leo Hutten |
Synopsis | A prisoner tries to escape using a mystic idol, but it will only take the evil on doomed journeys through time, and he is trapped in Hiroshima just before the bomb falls. |
Genre | occult |
Pencils | Bernie Krigstein |
Inks | Bernie Krigstein |