Issue | #139 |
Published | October 1955 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Synopsis | When a boxing hopeful invents a powder that makes him invisible in the ring, he becomes middle-weight champ. He decides the speed limit doesn't apply to him, since he knows the police can't see him, but after waking from a nap he finds that the police have constructed a jail around him. |
Script | Stan Lee ? |
Pencils | Pete Tumlinson |
Inks | Pete Tumlinson |
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 |
Letters | typeset |
Reprinted | in Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1950 series) #53 (January 1957) [as "The Dry Earth"]; in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #72 (December 1959); in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #20 (August 1961); in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #86 (November 1962); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008) |
Synopsis | A pilot who breaks the sound barrier hears voices plotting an invasion of America which turn out to be from Napoleon. |
Script | Stan Lee ? |
Synopsis | A father of a little boy finds out that even toys have parents too. |
Script | Stan Lee ? |
Pencils | Bill Benulis |
Inks | Bill Benulis |
Synopsis | When an atomic war destroys civilization, the primitives who are left use an old phonograph recording of a message of peace to psyche themselves up for the war raids they inflict upon neighboring tribes. |
Script | Stan Lee ? |
Synopsis | A circus clown is unaware that his performance is being viewed by an appreciative alien ambassador. |
Script | Stan Lee ? |
Pencils | Dick Ayers |
Inks | Dick Ayers |