Issue Details

Issue	#85
Published	April 1959
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Jack Schiff
Notes	Cover colors credit from Greg Theakston, via the GCD Error List (5 April 2008)

Cover Details - "The Stone Sentinels of Giant Island!"

Genre	science fiction
Pencils	Jack Kirby
Inks	Jack Kirby
Colors	Jack Kirby
Notes	Cover colors credit from Greg Theakston, via the GCD Error List (5 April 2008)

8 page story "Earth's Strangest Salesman"

Synopsis	Aliens are using a salesman to plant weapons on Earth, but when a man throws the salesman out, the salesman suddenly recalls the aliens' plans and stops an invasion.
Pencils	Jim Mooney
Inks	Jim Mooney
Reprinted	in Big Boy (Artima, 1956 series) #45

Half page advertisement "Tootsie Roll ad"

1 page Peter Puptent, Explorer filler "Amazing heiroglyphics, Mr. Puptent"

Genre	Humor
Script	Henry Boltinoff
Pencils	Henry Boltinoff
Inks	Henry Boltinoff

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "The Brave and the Bold #23"

1 page public service announcement "What's Your B.Q.*? (* Brotherhood Quotient)"

Script	Jack Schiff
Pencils	Bernard Bailey
Inks	Bernard Bailiey

7 page story "The Man with the Double Destiny"

Synopsis	When Mr. Clyde discovers that he has been hired to guide gun runner Verrill through the Peruvian jungle, he refuses to help him. But he doesn't know that Verrill has enlisted a witch doctor, so that whatever happens to Verrill happens to Clyde.
Pencils	Bill Ely
Inks	Bill Ely

Half page advertisement "Tootsie Roll Pop ad"

Half page promo (ad from the publisher) "Challengers of the Unknown #7"

Half page filler "Curious Names of Western Mines"

Genre

Fact

1 page text story "Ghost" in the Doorway

Letters

typeset

7 page story "The Stone Sentinels of Giant Island"

Synopsis	A scientific expedition comes across an unknown island with stone statues resembling those on Easter Island. After one of the statues comes to life, Prof. Spears deciphers an tablet and discovers that the statues are sentries for an ancient alien base under the island. Luckily, the tablet also tells the scientists how to deactivate the sentries, and they are able to escape before the island submerges.
Pencils	Jack Kirby
Inks	Jack Kirby
Notes	On the cover of this issue, and in the DC Special reprint, Prof. Spears has white hair. In this version, he has brown hair, looking much younger.
Reprinted	in DC Special (DC, 1968 series) #11 (March-April 1971)

Half page advertisement "Tootsie Roll Fudge ad"