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Issue Details

Issue #156
Published March 1957
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Forbidden...Keep Out!"

Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett

4 page story "How High Is High?"

Synopsis Aliens from space try to destroy Earth by building two mile high skyscrapers which will destabilize the planet's orbit.
Script Stan Lee?
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman

3 page story "The Door To...?"

Synopsis A hypnotist implants a suggestion into a prison's convicts that, if they escape, they have a recurring dream that passing through a door will grant them sanctuary and the door is that which enters the prison.
Script Stan Lee?

4 page story "Which Face Is Mine?"

Synopsis A crook gets the magical ability to change his face, but after pulling a robbery, he makes the mistake of changing his face to look like an escaped criminal and is shot to death by police.
Script Stan Lee?

2 page text story "The Quill Pen"

Letters typeset
Reprinted from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #32 (March 1956) [originally titled "The Writer]

4 page story "The Secret Formula"

Synopsis A secret formula gives a man the ability to project himself into the future. He finds that a farm is going to be discovered with oil on it, so his friends want to buy the property. He has misgivings about swindling the farmers out of the money that would have been theirs, so he tries to back out of the scheme, but his partners in duplicity tie him to a chair so he can't warn the farmers. He gets loose and drinks the rest of the formula so he can get there ahead of the swindlers and warns them against selling their land.
Script Stan Lee?

4 page story "Sounds In the Night"

Synopsis A deserter from the war of 1812 feels redeemed when his grandson takes up arms to fight for the Union.
Script Stan Lee?

4 page story "Forbidden...Keep Out"

Synopsis A girl whose scientist father believes that there is an undersea race of people living nearby an island keeps having dangerous encounters while diving and being rescued by a couple of young men. The scientist realizes that the two young men are members of the undersea race who can breathe air and are attempting to warn them away.
Script Stan Lee?
Pencils Mac Pakula
Inks Mac Pakula