Issue | #44 |
Published | March 1957 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Some information for this index from Gary Watson, September 2009. |
Pencils | Bill Everett (signed) |
Inks | Bill Everett (signed) |
Notes | Everett's initials can be found on the woman's lapels. This information from Gary Watson, September 2009. |
Synopsis | Light images of aliens from space become the fall guy of a crook in a series of planned robberies. |
Pencils | Al Williamson |
Inks | Al Williamson |
Synopsis | A midget who poses as a ventriloquist's doll in order to pull off heists has a chemist friend who works on suspended animation pills as a hobby. He takes one that is supposed to last for twenty-four hours to throw the police off his trail, but the panicked chemist shows up at his apartment claiming he accidentally gave him a pill that lasts twenty years. |
Pencils | Doug Wildey |
Inks | Doug Wildey |
Reprinted | in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #119 |
Synopsis | A man finds he has the power to project his spirit across distance. He uses this ability to do evil to people as he is a hateful person. When he tries to force his business partner out by dive bombing him at the controls of a model airplane, the wing breaks off and the resulting crash breaks the bones of his real body. |
Pencils | Ed Winiarski |
Inks | Ed Winiarski |
Notes | Art identification from atlastales.com. |
Synopsis | When a sailor upstages a native witch doctor, the witch doctor maroons the sailor on a small island surrounded by sharks. |
Pencils | Tony DiPreta (signed) |
Inks | Tony DiPreta (signed) |
Characters | John Tyler; Mary Tyler; Bobby Tyler |
Synopsis | When a young boy builds a fan to help his family get through a heat wave it brings down the flying saucer that caused the heat. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Don Heck |
Inks | Don Heck |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | The story has two illustrations; at least one is by Heck. All future reprints of "The Fan" are titled "The Heat's On" |
Reprinted | from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #37 (November 1955) [originally titled "The Fan"]; in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #1 (January 1959); in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #63 (December 1960); in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #25 (January 1962); in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #82 (July 1962); in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #108 (May 1963); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010) |
Synopsis | A telepath who works for the police department is shunned by others because of his ability until he saves a trapped boy. |
Pencils | Vince Colletta |
Inks | Vince Colletta |
Synopsis | When a man enters a castle, he becomes the resident ghost. |
Pencils | Frank Bolle |
Inks | Frank Bolle |