Issue | #2 |
Published | February 1959 |
Frequency | bi-monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in November 1958. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person unless otherwise specified. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Characters | Rick Dugan |
Synopsis | An interstellar detective takes a cargo pilot's place to find out how ships are being robbed without anyone remembering anything. On an unarmed planet, the natives try to take his cargo and hypnotize him with sound waves, it doesn't work because the detective is deaf. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Don Heck |
Inks | Don Heck |
Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Reprinted | in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #2 (1963) |
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 |
Pencils | Joe Maneely |
Inks | Joe Maneely |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with illustration. |
Reprinted | from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #45 (September 1956) |
Characters | Bruno Storme; Henry Stubbs |
Synopsis | A brilliant but cruel businessman sets out to conquer an alien world. When he finds one he discovers that the inhabitants are far more mentally advanced then humans, possessing psychic powers. He is little more than an animal to them, and is displayed in a zoo. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Al Williamson |
Inks | Al Williamson |
Notes | Penciler credit, inker credit, and job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Characters | Prof. Grath; Gen. Kane; Craig; Mr. Kane |
Synopsis | A machine seems to show the end of the world when the Sun burns out in the future. Panic and dispair spread until it is realized that the machine actually showed the creation of the sun in reverse. |
Genre | science fiction |
Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Synopsis | A tiny lost planet does good deeds on Earth until it is located by its mother planet and returned to its home galaxy. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Notes | Narrated in the third person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Characters | Ogarth; Cnidos |
Synopsis | The king of Atlantis is convinced that life still exists on the surface and leads an invasion fleet to make war on the world above. He finds that in the centuries since Atlantis sunk the pressures of the sea have made his people tiny as insects compared to surface humans, and they must return beneath the waves. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Dick Ayers |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Reprinted | in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #2 (1963) |