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Issue Details

Issue #25
Published February 1954
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett

6 page story "The Final Hour"

Synopsis Earthmen build a space armada to attack the outer galaxy, but they invoke the wrath of a powerful creature that returns to the planet and ravages it to where only the robot slaves remain.
Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte

5 page story "In Disguise"

Synopsis A human spy wearing two disguises penetrates the Martian emperor's palace to acquire Earth invasion plans. The Martians see through the first disguise, that of being a Martian, but under that she is disguised as a robot and they are fooled by that.
Pencils Myron Fass
Inks Myron Fass

2 page text story "The Purple Shoes"

Letters typeset
Reprinted from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #1 (March 1952) [originally titled "Dervish of Doom"]; in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #3 (2010)

3 page story "The Last Man On Earth"

Synopsis A man in a shelter after an alien attack opens the vault door for a female survivor.
Pencils Art Peddy
Inks Jack Abel

4 page story "The Long Sleep"

Synopsis A man looks to duplicate Rip van Winkle's sleep, but when he finds the little men in the story, they turn him into a tenpin for their bowling game.
Pencils C. A. Winter
Inks C. A. Winter

5 page story "No Place To Go"

Synopsis In the year 2003 it is agreed that war is the best solution to overpopulation.
Pencils Mac Pakula
Inks Mac Pakula