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Issue Details

Issue #16
Published August 1957
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "The 8th Wonder of the World!"

Pencils Fred Kida
Inks Fred Kida

4 page story "The Eighth Wonder of the World"

Synopsis Four conmen come up with an idea to dig up a giant that they plant in the earth and exhibit it to make money but they disturb a real giant with their scheme.
Pencils Richard Doxsee
Inks Richard Doxsee

4 page story "Only One Returned"

Synopsis Two men descend into a cave shaft and one plots to dispose of the other so that he can marry his girlfriend. He cuts the rope and the other man falls into the river, but he gets rescued, and the evil man gets stuck in quarantine due to the uranium contamination.
Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte

4 page story "The Swami's Secret"

Synopsis A mind-reading swami is undone when he comes across an individual he believes is an alien preparing to invade. He signs a confession to the police that he has been swindling wealthy clients for years but thinks the occasion is important enough to reveal his secret ability. The police check his story, but it turns out that 'alien' is an actor preparing a role.
Pencils Bob Bean
Inks Bob Bean
Notes Art credits from www.atlastales.com.
Reprinted in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #15 (January 1975)

4 page story "The Second-Hand Man!"

Synopsis When a law-abiding man buys a used car that had belonged to an executed gangster, he finds himself behaving in reckless and aggressive ways.
Pencils Ed Winiarski
Inks Ed Winiarski
Notes Art credits from www.atlastales.com.

2 page text story "The Missing Tooth"

Characters Alfred Pook; Harold; Dr. Smith
Synopsis A man becomes confused over directions to the dentist and as a result accidentally pilots an expedition to claim a new planet.
Genre science fiction
Letters typeset
Reprinted from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #45 (September 1956) [originally titled "Strange Mission"]

3 page story "The Missing Sun"

Synopsis A giant insect blots out Earth's sun and even more giant creatures save Earth by getting the insect to leave.
Pencils Matt Fox
Inks Matt Fox

4 page story "Bewitched!"

Synopsis The book of Genda, a yogi fanatic, holds a town paralyzed until a man's glasses slip off his face and light magnified through one of the lenses burns up the pages.
Pencils Bob Powell
Inks Bob Powell