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Issue Details

Issue #66
Published December 1958
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in July 1958. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion list. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "The Ghost Came C.O.D.!"

Characters Charlie Rompel
Genre science fiction
Pencils Joe Maneely (signed)
Inks Joe Maneely (signed)

4 page story "The Ghost Came C.O.D."

Characters Eban Goad; Charles Rompel
Synopsis A schemer comes up with the idea to send off invoices to the recently deceased figuring grieving widows will just pay the invoice to take care of the matter quickly. The fraud works until one of the dead comes back to his shop and reveals himself as a Martian living within the body of a human. The Martian silences the schemer.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Reed Crandall
Inks Reed Crandall
Notes A caption box saying this story is from "the Editor's File of Classic Strange Tales", possibly indicating a reprint from an unknown source.

4 page story "The Replacement!"

Characters Jack Hartley; Harry Groves; Mrs. Groves
Synopsis A criminal steals a dying man's jacket and when he finds an airline ticket in the pocket he attempts to use the plane to escape the police. When he boards the plane it takes off and he is surprised to see that there are no other passengers or even a pilot. He panics and tries to leave the plane. The police find his body in a field as though he had fallen from a great height. Since the criminal had taken Death's plane ticket meant for him, the dying man recovers.
Genre occult
Pencils Alphonso Greene
Inks Alphonso Greene
Notes Job number corrected from M-550.

3 page story "The Voice of Fido!"

Characters Hank Walton; Ned Walton; Fido
Synopsis A ventriloquist uses a dog in his act in place of a dummy. When a fire breaks out the dog leads people out by speaking and the ventriloquist gets credit for it, but the ventriloquist denies speaking.
Genre occult
Pencils Werner Roth
Inks Werner Roth

4 page story "It Waits Under the Sea!"

Characters Felix Bradin; Harry Spahn
Synopsis A man plans to traverse the globe completely underwater, but when he sees a tunnel he becomes curious and directs the submarine into it. He becomes trapped in a holding tank for Marineland and won't be found until the exhibit is next opened.
Genre horror
Pencils Al Eadeh
Inks Al Eadeh

4 page story "The Eerie Experiment!"

Characters Ben Darrow; Howie Barnes; Phil Walker; Mark Nichols; The Friends Club [Peter Ivanov; Barney Graham; John Barr [Joe Berrie]; Henry Adamo [Herbert Franklin]; Wallace]
Synopsis Two men in 1977 using a radio attempt to warn a government agent breaking up a communist spy ring in the past.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Robert Q. Sale
Inks Robert Q. Sale

2 page text story "Time Machine"

Synopsis A man's fascination with history leads him to build a time machine and travel to the past, but when he sees the dangers of time travel he destroys the machine and blueprints.
Genre science fiction
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration. Narrated in the first person.
Reprinted from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #57 (March 1957)

4 page story "He Wore a Black Beard"

Characters Wally Rogers; Ralph Blaine
Synopsis A man living with an inventor is surprised by a visitor who claims to be from the future. The man resents the inventor and comes up with a scheme to frame him with the time traveler's help, but after he steals money and gives it to him, he realizes the time traveler is the future self of the inventor he lives with and the man is not going to frame himself.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Ed Winiarski
Inks Ed Winiarski