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Issue Details

Issue #88
Published July 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Jack Schiff (Editor); George Kashdan (Associate Editor); Murray Boltinoff (Associate Editor)
Notes Story synopses and some other information supplied by Ed Boner, July 2009.

Cover Details - "The Man the Creature Feared!"

Pencils Bob Brown
Inks Bob Brown
Notes Story synopses and some other information supplied by Ed Boner, July 2009.

7 page story "The Return of the Animal-Men"

Synopsis While studying an ancient African crypt, Alan Hunter ponders images of Horus, Amun, and Anubis. Outside the crypt Alan meets the same gods in the nearby jungle. But they are actually beings from the planet Parma who came to Earth years ago, found it quaint, and decided to come back later to plunder its resources. And now is that time.
Genre Horror; Science Fiction
Pencils Bill Ely
Inks Bill Ely
Reprinted in Big Boy (Artima, 1956 series) #44 (May 1960)

Half page advertisement "Tootsie Roll ad"

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "House of Secrets #21 and Strange Adventures #105"

2 page filler "The Walking Stick!"

Synopsis Poe's "The Telltale Heart" with a walking cane.
Genre Horror
Pencils Bill Ely
Inks Bill Ely
Reprinted from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #24

7 page story "The Human Hurricane"

Synopsis Photographer Paul Bradley is given permission to take all the photos he wants of a local village's festival of the wind god, except the temple of Notus, the Wind God himself. Legend has it that any defiler of Notus' temple will take on the form of the wind god until he discovers how to become human again. But Paul doesn't heed the warnings.
Genre Horror
Pencils Mort Meskin
Inks George Roussos

Half page advertisement "Tootsie Roll Pop ad"

1 page Dr. Floogle filler "I've been experimenting for years..."

Genre Gags
Script Henry Boltinoff ?
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

1 page text story "The Invisible Shield"

Genre Horror
Letters typeset

7 page story "The Man the Creature Feared"

Synopsis An alien is sighted in the vicinity of a number of strange events, like buildings lifting off the ground and floating in the air before landing again. The only thing that the alien seems to fear is a man bundled up like a mummy in men's clothing. But after the police subdue the alien they find that the he is really a doctor, and that the man wrapped like a mummy is a mental patient who is actually responsible for the chaos.
Genre Horror; Science Fiction
Pencils Bob Brown
Inks Bob Brown

Half page advertisement "Tootsie Roll Fudge ad"

Half page promo (ad from the publisher) "Challengers of the Unknown #8"

Half page Dickey Dusk activity