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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published November 1951
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Face?/It Creeps by Night!/The City That Vanished!"

7 page story "The City That Vanished"

Synopsis After entire cities are pulled into space by giant magnets placed on a hostile planet the Earth people load up a city with atomic and hydrogen bombs to be pulled to its target.

2 page text story "The Valley of the Vampires"

Letters typeset
Reprinted in Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #16 (March 1953) [as "The Tourists"]

3 page story "It Creeps By Night!"

Synopsis A man with an intense fear of cats concludes suicide may help him reincarnate into a body without a fear of cats. He reincarnates into a mouse.

7 page story "The Face in the Picture"

Synopsis A photographer with a wife who doesn't want to be photographed is neighbors with a hideous monster who appears as a human woman to the senses but is revealed as it really is in photographs. The creature convinces the man that his wife is one of her kind and gets him to kill her then kills the man.

6 page story "Trapped!"

Synopsis A man who views space time as a hobby meets up with another man who works a space time researcher and gets himself caught and shrunk into a small box. No one else can see or hear him, but because the hobbyist thinks about space time the same way the researcher does, the hobbyist attempts to free him with a machine he has developed on his own to explore dimensions. The hobbyist's friends think he is crazy so when he succeeds in freeing the tiny researcher, he takes the man to introduce to his friends. The man regains his normal size before they see him and they are only finally convinced when the small box attempts and fails to trap the hobbyist within it.