Issue | #8 |
Published | February 1957 |
Frequency | bi-monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Information for this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion group |
Pencils | Carl Burgos |
Inks | Carl Burgos |
Notes | Information for this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion group |
Synopsis | Undersea men leave statues floating upon the surface to act as bait to capture surface men. |
Pencils | Paul Reinman |
Inks | Paul Reinman |
Synopsis | Police arrest a chemist for murdering his partner when they find his body at the bottom of the stairs and he had left a note indicating that they had quarreled. The thing is, he did not kill him. He was busy using his invisibility potion to rob the bank but he is unable to convince the police to believe his alibi since he burned the money and formula when he saw the police approaching. |
Pencils | John Tartaglione |
Inks | John Tartaglione |
Synopsis | A pilot flies a new plane that is so fast it goes 5000 years into Egypt's past and he marries Pharaoh's daughter. He mysteriously pops back into the present, but the plane stays in the past. The court martial is going to throw the book at him for telling such a preposterous story, but archeologists in Egypt uncover the plane in a burial crypt. |
Pencils | Mort Drucker |
Inks | Mort Drucker |
Synopsis | A nobody gets struck by cosmic rays and they give him super powers which he uses to combat various menaces. The powers wear off after a time, but his experience has given him a new positive outlook on life. |
Pencils | Ted Galindo |
Inks | Ted Galindo |
Letters | typeset |
Reprinted | from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #35 (April 1955) [originally titled "My Friend Koogelie"] |
Synopsis | Various motorists pass a detour sign which cause them to rethink the paths which their actions have taken them down. |
Pencils | Sol Brodsky [as "Solly"] |
Inks | Sol Brodsky [as "Solly"] |
Synopsis | A convict develops a shield that will protect him from bullets but he finds that he cannot dissolve it. |
Pencils | Vic Carrabotta |
Inks | Vic Carrabotta |