Issue | #51 |
Published | September 1956 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Bill Everett |
Inks | Bill Everett |
Genre | science fiction |
Notes | a story similar to the Ditko story in Tales to Astonish 40 |
Synopsis | An explorer is disappointed to find an apparent city of gold hidden in the jungle only to be told that the samples he has returned with are fool's gold. He is unaware that the area he crossed to get to the city was a large diamond field. |
Genre | adventure |
Pencils | Marvin Stein |
Inks | Marvin Stein |
Synopsis | A dictator gets a machine that allows him to read the thoughts of his subjects and throws thousands in jail. When the inventor's own family is imprisoned, he fixes the machine so that it produces false results and the dictator's loyal guards are thrown in jail. Angered, they reject his leadership and revolt. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Harry Lazarus |
Inks | Harry Lazarus |
Synopsis | A scientist pulls his ancestor from the past thus wiping himself out of existence. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Lou Cameron |
Inks | Lou Cameron |
Characters | Mr. Frankel; Mr. Karl; Red Mop |
Synopsis | A dull salesman gets some zing from a famous clown's laughing powder, but learns that confidence is its own magic. |
Genre | humor |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with illustration. |
Reprinted | in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #120 (May 1964) [page 1]; in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #121 (June 1964) [page 2] |
Synopsis | An eagle disguised as a man coordinates his fellows into helping out with various disasters. |
Genre | fantasy |
Pencils | John Forte |
Inks | John Forte |
Synopsis | A man takes a spacecraft that travels close to the speed of light to wed an alien princess fifty light years away, but she rejects him as he is now almost ninety. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Gray Morrow |
Inks | Gray Morrow |