| Issue | #39 |
| Published | October 1955 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Carl Burgos |
| Inks | Carl Burgos |
| 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. |
| Synopsis | A Puppet Master type story but his material works on buildings as well as people. He meets his doom when his landlady sells his statue of himself along with other personal items for nonpayment of rent and the buyer tosses it in the trash. |
| Pencils | Bill Everett |
| Inks | Bill Everett |
| Letters | Bill Everett |
| Characters | Joe; Gus; Angelo |
| Synopsis | A struggling band takes on a poor but talented young harp player who turns out to be a young angel studying on Earth. |
| Genre | occult |
| Letters | typeset |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #153 (December 1956) [as "Music from Above"]; in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #54 (September 1959); in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #79 (December 1960); in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #26 (February 1962); in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #99 (August 1962); in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #41 (May 1963); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010) |
| Synopsis | This story is reminiscent of Alicia Master's first meeting with the Silver Surfer. A homely alien is going to recommend humans be destroyed to preserve the galactic peace when he saves a blind girl from being struck by a car. After she tells him she can sense his inner nobility he changes his recommendation to allow humans to develop their space-faring capability. |
| Pencils | Sid Greene |
| Inks | Sid Greene |
| Synopsis | A young boy who plays with toy ships loses his paper route job when he is late once too often. The family needs extra money because the father is home recovering from an illness. The boy thinks his ship has become lost, but after awhile it returns loaded with black pearls it has traded for at a distant port. |
| Pencils | Kurt Schaffenberger |
| Inks | Kurt Schaffenberger |
| Synopsis | A story that explains the circumstances of the old woman who had so many children she didn't know what to do came to live in a shoe. |
| Pencils | Norman Maurer |
| Inks | Norman Maurer |
| Synopsis | A tv producer of a candid-camera type show contacts an inventor who doesn't believe his rocket can fly to Venus. The producer says that's ok because he wants to advertise for five people who wish to leave Earth and film them being fooled by the fraud for the audience's amusement. The inventor agrees and is surprised when his rocket actually does succeed in reaching Venus, but not nearly as surprised as the producer and his film crew when the five recruits shape-shift into Venusians who are glad to be home. |
| Pencils | Joe Sinnott |
| Inks | Joe Sinnott |