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Issue Details

Issue #45
Published May 1956
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Pencils Sol Brodsky (signed)
Inks Sol Brodsky (signed)

4 page story "The Night Visitor"

Synopsis A man investigates a flying saucer and bumps his head inside. When he comes to, he finds that he can't interest anyone in authority about the various flying saucers he sees, and he learns that while he was unconscious he was transported to Jupiter.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Steve Ditko (signed)
Inks Steve Ditko (signed)

4 page story "The World Beneath the Sea"

Synopsis A skin diver finds a race of people living beneath the sea.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Al Williamson (signed)
Inks Al Williamson (signed)

3 page story "Journey of No Return"

Synopsis An attendant of a carnival is surprised to learn that the Ferris wheel is a method for returning alien visitors back to their homes.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Bob McCarty
Inks Bob McCarty
Notes Art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

4 page story "The Derelict in Space"

Synopsis Space explorers find a deserted satellite in space with a diary entry about aliens offering to take the crew away to paradise.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Ed Winiarski
Inks Ed Winiarski
Notes Art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

2 page text story "The Comic"

Characters Stan Wepp
Synopsis A bored television comedian is mysteriously transported back to the small mining town and small theatres that he loves.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #70 (August 1959); in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #14 (February 1961); in Amazing Adventures (Marvel, 1961 series) #2 (July 1961); in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #33 (July 1962); in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #87 (December 1962); in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #109 (June 1963); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008); in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #1 (2007)

4 page story "...And Never Come Back"

Synopsis A convict is exiled to space but finds his criminal ways prevent him from gaining acceptance on any of the solar system planets.
Genre science fiction
Pencils George Roussos
Inks George Roussos
Notes Art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

4 page story "Man Against the Moon"

Synopsis An astronaut scheduled for a moon landing thinks he is dreaming about encountering beings living under the surface of the moon until he finds himself back on Earth with an object they had given him while temporarily speaking with them on the moon.
Genre science fiction
Pencils John Forte (signed)
Inks John Forte (signed)