Issue | #66 |
Published | December 1958 |
Frequency | bi-monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in July 1958. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. 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. |
Characters | Charlie Rompel |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Joe Maneely (signed) |
Inks | Joe Maneely (signed) |
Characters | Eban Goad; Charles Rompel |
Synopsis | A schemer comes up with the idea to send off invoices to the recently deceased figuring grieving widows will just pay the invoice to take care of the matter quickly. The fraud works until one of the dead comes back to his shop and reveals himself as a Martian living within the body of a human. The Martian silences the schemer. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Reed Crandall |
Inks | Reed Crandall |
Notes | A caption box saying this story is from "the Editor's File of Classic Strange Tales", possibly indicating a reprint from an unknown source. |
Characters | Jack Hartley; Harry Groves; Mrs. Groves |
Synopsis | A criminal steals a dying man's jacket and when he finds an airline ticket in the pocket he attempts to use the plane to escape the police. When he boards the plane it takes off and he is surprised to see that there are no other passengers or even a pilot. He panics and tries to leave the plane. The police find his body in a field as though he had fallen from a great height. Since the criminal had taken Death's plane ticket meant for him, the dying man recovers. |
Genre | occult |
Pencils | Alphonso Greene |
Inks | Alphonso Greene |
Notes | Job number corrected from M-550. |
Characters | Hank Walton; Ned Walton; Fido |
Synopsis | A ventriloquist uses a dog in his act in place of a dummy. When a fire breaks out the dog leads people out by speaking and the ventriloquist gets credit for it, but the ventriloquist denies speaking. |
Genre | occult |
Pencils | Werner Roth |
Inks | Werner Roth |
Characters | Felix Bradin; Harry Spahn |
Synopsis | A man plans to traverse the globe completely underwater, but when he sees a tunnel he becomes curious and directs the submarine into it. He becomes trapped in a holding tank for Marineland and won't be found until the exhibit is next opened. |
Genre | horror |
Pencils | Al Eadeh |
Inks | Al Eadeh |
Characters | Ben Darrow; Howie Barnes; Phil Walker; Mark Nichols; The Friends Club [Peter Ivanov; Barney Graham; John Barr [Joe Berrie]; Henry Adamo [Herbert Franklin]; Wallace] |
Synopsis | Two men in 1977 using a radio attempt to warn a government agent breaking up a communist spy ring in the past. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Robert Q. Sale |
Inks | Robert Q. Sale |
Synopsis | A man's fascination with history leads him to build a time machine and travel to the past, but when he sees the dangers of time travel he destroys the machine and blueprints. |
Genre | science fiction |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with illustration. Narrated in the first person. |
Reprinted | from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #57 (March 1957) |
Characters | Wally Rogers; Ralph Blaine |
Synopsis | A man living with an inventor is surprised by a visitor who claims to be from the future. The man resents the inventor and comes up with a scheme to frame him with the time traveler's help, but after he steals money and gives it to him, he realizes the time traveler is the future self of the inventor he lives with and the man is not going to frame himself. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Ed Winiarski |
Inks | Ed Winiarski |