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Issue Details

Issue #10
Published August 1956
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Flee For Your Life!"

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

4 page story "The Weeds"

Synopsis Sailors enter the Sargasso sea and find that the seaweed there prolongs life and slows awareness of time when eaten because, when a hurricane develops and they are able to take advantage of the winds to leave the small island that they were marooned on, they come back to a futuristic port many years after they started.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Mort Meskin
Inks Mort Meskin

4 page story "In the Shadows"

Synopsis When a man gets in a plane crash, a creature from another dimension offers to heal his wounds if he will love it. He agrees, but he notices odd things about the woman over time and she admits to him that she is not human. She begs him to forget what she has told him, but he backs away from her, so she transports him back to the scene of the crash. The creature heals him once again, but this time, disappears forever leaving the man with a strange sense of loss.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Reed Crandall
Inks Reed Crandall

4 page story "Flee for Your Life!"

Synopsis When a Martian father tells his son that things are bad on Mars, he tries to get an Earth couple to adopt him, but they realize he is a Martian and plan to turn him over to authorities. The boy flees, and spends years as a thief just to get by. After finding his sister, who has married a human and produced children without green hair like he has, he decides to use the flying saucer his father left behind to return to Mars in hopes that things are better there now.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Paul Hodge (signed)
Inks Paul Hodge (signed)

4 page story "The Secret of the Black Forest"

Synopsis A visitor from Jupiter finds the humans ungrateful to him when he attempts to build them modern domiciles.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Al Williamson ?
Inks Angelo Torres
Notes Pencil credit from www.atlastales.com.

2 page text story "Genius for Trouble"

Pencils John Tartaglione
Inks John Tartaglione
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #55 (June 1957) [as "The Genius"]

3 page story "The Crisis!"

Genre science fiction
Pencils Vic Carrabotta (signed)
Inks Vic Carrabotta (signed)
Notes A plot similar to "Fantastic Voyage"

4 page story "The Long Sleep!"

Synopsis A scientist looks down on the laborer that he has construct his suspended animation cabinet, but after awaking one thousand years in the future, he finds that he has only enough mental capacity for manual labor and comes to be content with his place in society.
Genre science fiction
Pencils John Forte (signed)
Inks John Forte (signed)
Notes Forte credits by Michael J. Vassallo , 2002-12-03 (Per Sandell ed.)