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Issue Details

Issue #50
Published October 1956
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Here Comes The Cyclops!"

Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett
Letters typeset

4 page story "The Fog!"

Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Notes Features Bethlehem Royal Hospital ("Bedlam") in London, the world's oldest psychiatric hospital, and its Keeper. Job number from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

4 page story "I Entered The Forbidden Land!"

Pencils Herb Hamilton
Inks Herb Hamilton
Notes Features the "legendary" Tibetan land of Shangi-La, which first appeared in Lost Horizon by James Hilton (London, 1933); perhaps what was meant was Shambhala, a legendary land in Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Job number from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

4 page story "When The City Trembled"

Pencils Reed Crandall
Inks Reed Crandall
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

4 page story "Stranger Than Fiction!"

Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

2 page text story "Bird Talk"

Characters Tony Tipple; Skeets Mulligan; Toodles Murphy
Synopsis A meeting with a strange man gives a boy an unusual way of getting a pet bird, talking to birds.
Genre occult
Pencils Marie Severin
Inks Marie Severin
Letters typeset
Notes Art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.
Reprinted in World of Fantasy (Marvel, 1956 series) #16 (February 1959); in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #70 (July 1961); in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #33 (September 1962); in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #40 (February 1963); in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #94 (July 1963)

3 page story "Quarantine"

Notes Job number from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

4 page story "Cyclops"

Characters Niles Ulysses Barret
Synopsis A WWII destroyer is torpedoed in the Mediterranean; one boatload of survivors, including Capt. Niles Ulysses Barret, come ashore on an island where they recapitulate the adventure of Odysseus and his crew with Polyphemus the Cyclops, as related in Book 9 of Homer's Odyssey.
Pencils Jack Davis
Inks Jack Davis
Notes Job number and detailed synopsis from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.