Issue | #149 |
Published | August 1956 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Genre | Monster; Horror |
Pencils | Bill Everett (signed) |
Inks | Bill Everett (signed) |
Notes | Pencil and ink credits from Martin Volkhammer (October 1, 2005) based on Everett's signature on the cover on the wooden fence to the right of the monsters right hand. |
Synopsis | A prospector returns for the man who staked his expedition when he finds a city of marble and gold, but the man thinks his tales are the result of sunstroke and doesn't believe him, until he sees photographic proof, and then he spends years in the wild attempting to find the prospector and the golden city. |
Script | Stan Lee ? |
Pencils | Rocco Mastroserio ? |
Inks | Rocco Mastroserio ? |
Synopsis | A woman has a premonition that her pilot husband is going to crash, but despite several of her dream details matching reality, he lands safely. |
Script | Stan Lee ? |
Pencils | Vic Carrabotta |
Inks | Vic Carrabotta |
Synopsis | An employee finds that by turning the hands of his factory's time clock he can enter the time dimension where no one is aware of his presence. |
Script | Stan Lee ? |
Pencils | Frank Bolle |
Inks | Frank Bolle |
Synopsis | Castaways attempt to subdue one of their number whom they feel has cracked from the strain of island living. |
Script | Stan Lee ? |
Pencils | Tony Mortellaro (signed) |
Inks | Tony Mortellaro (signed) |
Characters | Franz; Mr. Joseff; Marianne Le Brun |
Synopsis | A shy and artistic tour guide wins the love of a wealthy girl when an unknown force alters his painting to make it a proposal. |
Genre | occult; romance |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with illustration. |
Reprinted | in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #61 (February 1958) [as "The Miracle Painting"] |
Script | Stan Lee ? |
Pencils | Jim Infantino |
Inks | Jim Infantino |
Notes | The same story as "Not Wanted" from Marvel Tales #116 with the addition that the story takes place on a planet populated by anthropomorphic dogs. |
Synopsis | In the year 2095 an immortality serum is developed and stolen by a ruthless man. He is pursued off planet by the authorities but then his rocket runs out of fuel on a lifeless asteroid. He decides that eternal life would be a curse on this barren asteroid so he swallows fluid from a bottle marked poison in order to end it all, but when he reads through the theft victim's notes, he's shocked to learn that the serum developer hid the serum inside the poison bottle. |
Script | Stan Lee ? |
Pencils | Joe Orlando |
Inks | Joe Orlando |