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Issue Details

Issue #45
Published April 1956
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Land of Vanishing Men!"

Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett

4 page story "Land of Vanishing Men"

Synopsis Three men who dream of the adventure of knights join a mirage in the desert set during the Crusades.
Pencils Joe Sinnott
Inks Joe Sinnott

4 page story "The Night People"

Synopsis A cowardly boy is ashamed when space aliens interrogate him for when would be the best time to invade and he is too frightened to even lie to them. They let him go so he can check the paper for the best time to invade and he regrets his cowardice. When he sees tomorrow is the fourth of July he tells the aliens to invade after nightfall and the fireworks display frightens them off.
Pencils Bob Forgione
Inks Jack Abel

3 page story "The Eyes of Mr. Moody"

Synopsis A timid hypnotist hypnotizes himself hoping to give himself the daring to succeed in business, but after coming out of his trance, he realizes that the wealth he had thought he accumulated over the course of one year was all in his mind.
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Jack Keller

4 page story "The Strange Exchange"

Synopsis An employee of the state department who wishes for an out of the way assignment gets his wish when he becomes the envoy for the Martian embassy.
Pencils Ed Winiarski
Inks Ed Winiarski

2 page text story "The Impersonation"

Letters typeset
Reprinted from Girl Comics (Marvel, 1949 series) #9 (July 1951) [originally titled "The Phony Rubies"]

4 page story "The Man Who Went Back"

Synopsis A man who can experience the past in his imagination goes back to the creation.
Pencils Bernie Krigstein
Inks Bernie Krigstein

4 page story "Sorry, Wrong Planet"

Synopsis An alien with orders to colonize Earth lands and asks the first person he sees if he is on Earth. The man sarcastically answers him "No, it's Mars." The alien disappears and scientists detect through telescopes the colonization activity on Mars, which the alien has mistaken for Earth.
Pencils Bernard Baily
Inks Joe Sinnott?