Issue | #22 |
Published | February 1955 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Joe Maneely |
Inks | Joe Maneely |
Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010) |
Synopsis | A fantasy writer is visited by aliens who wish him to teach them human emotions so that they can observe humans undetected. He is afraid if they learn the history of people, they will destroy civilization so that space travel does not threaten them. The last two emotions he teaches them are ambition and power, hoping that they will destroy themselves. |
Reprinted | in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #151; in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010) |
Letters | typeset |
Reprinted | from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #15 (February 1953) [originally titled "The Phantom Flivver"] |
Synopsis | A man takes a bet to spend the night in a haunted house and ends up the ghost which haunts the house. |
Pencils | Howard Nostrand (+ ?) |
Inks | Howard Nostrand (+ ?) |
Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010) |
Synopsis | An East German plots to murder his business partner and then get help from an Allied soldier stationed just across the border, but the soldier is actually a statue and does not respond to his plea. |
Pencils | John Forte |
Inks | John Forte |
Reprinted | in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #151; in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010) |
Synopsis | Martian gun-runners arm select humans with advanced weaponry hoping that they will battle amongst themselves and leave them as easy pickings for an invasion force. |
Pencils | Moskowitz |
Inks | Moskowitz |
Reprinted | in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #151; in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010) |
Pencils | Mort Lawrence |
Inks | Mort Lawrence |
Notes | "Fantastic Voyage" from the point of view of an assassin. |
Reprinted | in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #151; in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 (2010) |