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Issue Details

Issue #34
Published May 1956
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "The Secret of the Mystic Ring!"

Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Carl Burgos
Notes Art credits from Atlas Tales (http://www.atlastales.com/sI/1262), accessed 5 April 2010; the original indexer credited the pencils and inks to "Goldberg."

4 page story "The Secret of the Mystic Ring"

Pencils Robert Sale
Inks Robert Sale
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

4 page story "The Long Way Home"

Pencils Bob Forgione ?
Inks Jack Abel ?
Notes Pencils, inks, and job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Original credit for art: Sal Trapani?

2 page text story "Odd Skills"

Characters Jim Branner; Bill Toney
Synopsis The manager of an auto parts shop develops a sudden tolerance for "human variation" in parts, possibly linked to otherworldly strangers in the shop at night.
Genre science fiction
Letters typeset
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #56 (February 1957) [as "No Variations"]; in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #7 (January 1960); in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #20 (June 1961); in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #49 (November 1963); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008)

4 page story "A Penny for Your Dreams!"

Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

3 page story "The Missing Man!"

Pencils Herb Familton
Inks Herb Familton
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

4 page story "Down to Earth"

Pencils Bob Powell
Inks Bob Powell
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

4 page story "Someone Is Calling"

Pencils Bernie Krigstein
Inks Bernie Krigstein
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.