Issue | #56 |
Published | April 1957 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Pencils | John Severin |
Inks | John Severin |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010. |
Synopsis | A scientist invents a cosmic magnet which brings down a ghost-like inhabitant of space. His partner thinks that capturing such a being for study is cruel and he knocks the magnet so that it tilts downward and pulls a similar dense creature up to the surface from the Earth's core. |
Pencils | Richard Doxsee |
Inks | Richard Doxsee |
Notes | Job number and art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010. |
Synopsis | A man finds that he and his friends all have Wolverine's healing factor. These humans with incredible healing powers are called the "other men.". |
Pencils | Pete Morisi |
Inks | Pete Morisi |
Notes | Job number and art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010. |
Synopsis | A scientist builds a time travel device that requires someone from the present return to the past if one from the past is brought forward. He switches places with an alchemist just as a mob is coming for him. |
Pencils | Marvin Stein |
Inks | Marvin Stein |
Notes | Job number and art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010. |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | This sequence from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010. |
Reprinted | from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #31 (May 1955) [originally titled "The Ice Age"] |
Synopsis | A pirate captain finds himself in Atlantis and granted one wish. He wishes to be seven feet tall and strong as a bull so he can strong arm the Atlanteans but they are all much bigger and more powerful than that. |
Pencils | Werner Roth |
Inks | Werner Roth |
Notes | Job number and art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010. Features the legendary city of Atlantis, first described in Timaeus and Critias by Plato (360 BC). |
Synopsis | In 1944 a captured US soldier hates the German sergeant who goads him into attempting an escape after he finishes carving a wooden doll for his daughter. During the attempt, the man hears a voice coming from the doll giving instructions on how to elude the enemy patrols, and many years later sees the German sergeant giving a ventriloquist performance. He realizes the sergeant had aided him in gaining his freedom. |
Pencils | Frank W. Bolle |
Inks | Frank W. Bolle |
Notes | Job number and art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010. |
Script | Monroe Froehlich, Jr. |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | For 1 October 1956. Stan Lee, Editor; Martin Goodman, Managing Editor; Monroe Froehlich, Jr., Business Manager. |
Synopsis | Once a ship-in-a-bottle is pulled out of a tub of water it had fallen into, radio S.O.S. signals that had been received cease. |
Pencils | Bill Everett |
Inks | Bill Everett |
Notes | Job number and art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010. |