Issue | #54 |
Published | January 1957 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Some information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion list. |
Pencils | Bill Everett |
Inks | Bill Everett |
Pencils | John Forte |
Inks | John Forte |
Notes | A story that shares plot elements with The Twilight Zone's "It's A Good Life". |
Synopsis | A criminal thinks he has shot a night watchman and goes into suspended animation for forty years so that the police will forget about him, but when he comes out of the suspended animation, he reads in the old newspaper that his partner was the one who wounded the night watchman earlier in the evening and the police never suspected him. |
Pencils | Gray Morrow |
Inks | Gray Morrow |
Synopsis | A man finds a city with a treasure that only appears once every several years and attempts to steal the treasure but fails. |
Pencils | Doug Wildey |
Inks | Doug Wildey |
Synopsis | A swindler whose conscience is bothering him finds himself locked in an amusement park fun house where he sees visions of the people he has cheated. |
Pencils | Robert Sale |
Inks | Robert Sale |
Characters | Ned Carter; Mr. Jonas |
Synopsis | A disgruntled janitor's obsessive effort to create a sweeping robot costs him his job and ends in failure, but only because he sees no use for a perpetual motion machine. |
Genre | science fiction |
Letters | typeset |
Reprinted | from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #32 (June 1955) [originally titled "The Inventor"] |
Synopsis | A ventriloquist loses his dummy overboard and the island natives are about to destroy it when the ventriloquist speaks for the dummy many miles away. |
Pencils | Bob Powell |
Inks | Bob Powell |
Synopsis | When a man testifying in court dreams of being executed due to circumstantial evidence he changes his attitude. |
Pencils | George Roussos |
Inks | George Roussos |