Issue | #45 |
Published | September 1956 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Sol Brodsky (signed) |
Inks | Sol Brodsky (signed) |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Sol Brodsky signature noted by Gary Watson, April 2008; formerly identified as Forte pencils by Bob Bailey, December, 2002. |
Synopsis | A ruthless businessman is taught a lesson in compassion for the little guy by a mysterious man in black. |
Pencils | John Forte |
Inks | John Forte |
Synopsis | A criminal falls in love with the inhabitant of a mirage. |
Pencils | Syd Shores |
Inks | Syd Shores |
Synopsis | A cruel boss of native pearl divers tries to out-dive a stranger who has appeared on the island so that he will not lose face in front of the natives, but the stranger is a water-breathing alien who easily outlasts him. |
Pencils | Robert Q. Sale |
Inks | Robert Q. Sale |
Synopsis | Three men try to rob some old men in a spooky house, but find their youth stolen from them. |
Pencils | Bob McCarty |
Inks | Bob McCarty |
Characters | Alfred Pook; Harold; Dr. Smith |
Synopsis | A man becomes confused over directions to the dentist and as a result accidentally pilots an expedition to claim a new planet. |
Genre | science fiction |
Letters | typeset |
Reprinted | in Strange Stories of Suspense (Marvel, 1955 series) #16 (August 1957) [as "The Missing Tooth"]; in Strange Worlds (Marvel, 1958 series) #2 (February 1959); in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #62 (November 1960); in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #91 (December 1961); in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #80 (May 1962); in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #38 (December 1962); in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #122 (July 1964) [page 1]; in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #123 (August 1964) [page 2] |
Synopsis | A trader masquerades as a native in order to find the secret burial place of their kings, but a flash of lightning renders him amnesic. |
Pencils | Bob Forgione |
Inks | Jack Abel |
Synopsis | An escape artist criminal is placed in a cell with so many keys that it should take him about twenty years to figure out which one opens the cell door. |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Reprinted | in Steve Ditko Reader (Pure Imagination, 2002 series) #nn [1] |