Strange Stories of Suspense (1955) 14

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Cover art by Bill Everett. "Beware... A Martian," script by Carl Wessler, pencils by Al Williamson, inks by Ralph Mayo; In 1968 a bigot attempts hate crimes against a Martian who has fled war-torn Mars to live on Earth in peace. "Someone is in the Trunk," script by Carl Wessler, art by Dick Ayers; A thief in a rooming house gets a psychologist as a roommate who sets a trap for him by placing a mirror in the bottom of a trunk to plague the thief's guilty conscience with his own reflection. "When His World Vanished," art by Robert Q. Sale; When a man hits-and-runs a little boy, the boy's uncle gets revenge by giving the man a pill which erases him from existence. "All Through the Night," script by Carl Wessler, art by Tony DiPreta; A man finds that the people he is familiar with have all been replaced by strangers. "Surprise for the Audience" text story. "Child's Play!", art by John Tartaglione; A man with a self-inflated ego takes several years to assemble found parts, creating a materializer which brings forth a resident of the fourth dimension. "Inside the Hidden Well!", art by Doug Wildey; In Africa, during WWII, a German soldier finds the well where Achilles' mother bathed him and so becomes invulnerable to bullets and steals the American soldiers' food who had found him wandering dazed in the desert; They open up on him and one of the bullets glances off his heal, killing him, because that is where the American medic had placed a bandage over a boot blister. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.