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Issue Details

Issue #38
Published September 1955
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Pencils Carl Burgos
Inks Sol Brodsky?
Notes Original indexer suggested Stan Goldberg? as penciller and inker but Goldberg declined the credit in an e-mail to Tony Isabella, forwarded to the GCD Comics Database List on 11 May 2004. Cover credits obtained from an article in From The Tomb #10 (June, 2003)by Dr. Michael J. Vassallo and Frank Motler via the GCD Comics Database List.

5 page story "The Man In the Sky"

Synopsis A "Jack and the Beanstalk" story with a moral against being too greedy.
Pencils Al Hartley
Inks Al Hartley

2 page text story "From Outer Space"

Characters Jonathan Ditmar
Synopsis When hostile aliens come to Earth of the future they are persuaded not to enslave humanity because of Earth's music.
Genre science fiction
Letters typeset
Reprinted from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #26 (February 1955)

4 page story "The Shaggy Creature"

Synopsis People wonder why a wealthy man carries around a teddy bear with him wherever he goes not realizing that the bear is his financial adviser.
Pencils Bob Forgione
Inks Jack Abel

4 page story "No Escape"

Synopsis A married couple going through some rocky times are watching television with each other when they see a show called 'Supposing' featuring actors who look like them. When they reflect out loud if they hadn't met at a blind date they would never have gotten married, the tv program shows them that they would have got together as the result of a fender bender. When they suppose that the car accident had not occurred, the tv program shows them that they would have gotten together from an encounter at a movie theater. The two realize fate brought them together and resolve to stop sniping at each other. They are shocked when they glance behind the set and realize that the tv is not plugged in.
Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte

5 page story "Time Crime"

Synopsis A man invents a time machine in order to commit crimes but he runs afoul of the 'time adjusters' who correct flaws in the time stream.
Pencils Art Peddy

5 page story "The Boy Who Saw"

Synopsis Three men receive warnings from an angelic boy who charges a penny to read their futures. When the dire predictions come true, the men return to boy for more advice only to learn that the boy's mother has made him give up his business and he walks off into the sky to return home.
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Dick Ayers