Data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license.

Issue Details

Issue #53
Published January 1957
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Some information from www.atlastales.com.

Cover Details - "When the Eggs Hatch!"

Pencils Bill Everett (signed)
Inks Bill Everett (signed)
Notes Artist from www.atlastales.com.

4 page story "Lost...One World"

Genre fantasy
Pencils Bob Powell
Inks Bob Powell
Notes Title, page count and job number from www.atlastales.com.

4 page story "The Invisible Thieves!"

Genre fantasy
Pencils Reed Crandall
Inks Reed Crandall
Notes Title, page count and job number from www.atlastale.com.

3 page story "The Victim"

Genre fantasy
Pencils John Forte (signed)
Inks John Forte (signed)
Notes Forte credit by Michael J. Vassallo , 2002-12-03 (Per Sandell ed.). Title, page count and job number from www.atlastales.com.

2 page text story "The Dry Earth"

Characters Chuck; Harry Davis; Dr. Ramsay
Synopsis The weather reporter at a newspaper realizes that the weather is being manipulated somehow in an effort to destroy Earth's crops and helps the government stop the attack.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #139 (October 1955) [originally titled "Weather Man"]

4 page story "A Voice From Nowhere!"

Genre fantasy
Pencils Ed Winiarski
Inks Ed Winiarski
Notes Title, page count and job number from www.atlastales.com. Art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

4 page story "When We Awake"

Genre science fiction
Pencils Robert Q. Sale
Inks Robert Q. Sale
Notes Title, page count and job number from www.atlastales.com. Art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

4 page story "When the Eggs Hatch"

Synopsis A man finds a note in a jar that been left in a cave describing alien eggs that had landed on Earth inside of meteors. He goes off to alert authorities to search inside of caves for the eggs.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Tony DiPreta
Inks Tony DiPreta
Reprinted in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #25