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Issue Details

Issue #31
Published August 1954
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "The Man Who Played With Blocks!"

Pencils Harry Anderson
Inks Harry Anderson

5 page story "The Man Who Played With Blocks"

Synopsis A toy maker gets ahold of wood leftovers from coffin construction and builds toy blocks from them. Like a voodoo figurine, whatever is built from the blocks is destroyed when the blocks are scattered.
Pencils Sid Greene
Inks Sid Greene

2 page text story "The Living Legend"

Letters typeset
Reprinted from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #110 (December 1952) [originally titled "No Such Animal?"]

5 page story "The Bum"

Synopsis A bum involved in a train wreck regrets when he takes the clothes off a prosperous man and leaves him to die, only to be arrested by the police and learns that they have mistaken him for a different bum that committed murder earlier and stole the victim's clothes.
Pencils Bill Benulis
Inks Bill Benulis

4 page story "The Money Tree"

Synopsis A professor is killed by a gangster who funded his money tree project when the tree only produces three dollar bills.
Pencils J. T.
Inks J. T.

4 page story "The First Man"

Synopsis A mountain climber wants to be the first man atop mount ka, and he succeeds, but he finds that still he has been preceded to the summit by a...werewolf.
Pencils Bill Savage
Inks Bill Savage

5 page story "The Strange Ones"

Synopsis Scientists search for a mutant to tame their atomic pile but he has undergone a procedure that makes him normal.
Pencils Art Peddy