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Issue Details

Issue #24
Published December 1953
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Halfway Home!"

Synopsis Man who has injected himself with hypodermic needle is torn in half.
Genre horror
Pencils Carl Burgos ?
Inks Bill Everett ?
Notes Cover has nothing to do with inside story with same name. Shows Independent Distributor logo. Shows ACMP (American Comic Magazine Publishers) Seal of Approval. Credit information supplied by www.atlastales.com.

5 page story "The One Who Was Dead"

Synopsis A man uses life restore serum to revive Cleopatra, but it also works on the Asp that she used to commit suicide, and it bites him.
Genre horror
Pencils Paul Reinman (signed)
Inks Paul Reinman (signed)

2 page text story "The Trap"

Genre horror
Letters typeset

4 page story "He Kidnapped a Rocket"

Synopsis A criminal hijacks a rocket, but unknown to him, its destination is a space prison colony.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Bill Benulis ?
Inks Jack Abel ?
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5 page story "The Hunter"

Synopsis A hunter winds up on a planet where animals are the masters and place humans in zoos.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Myron Fass ?
Inks Sid Greene ?
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3 page story "Halfway Home!"

Synopsis A scientist aboard a rocket without enough fuel to reach Earth wants to use a device to reduce the weight of the crew by half. When he tests it on a monkey, it shrinks the monkey to half-size, but when he tries it out on himself it cuts him in half.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Chuck Winter
Inks Chuck Winter
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6 page story "Look Out for the Martians"

Synopsis A man realizes that he is actually a Martian that has been incubated into a human infant and only becomes aware of his identity once maturity has been reached. Human agents called 'scanners' attempt to neutralize him, but fail.
Genre science fiction
Pencils John Forte (signed)
Inks John Forte (signed)
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