Issue | #41 |
Published | November 1955 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Synopsis | An experimental psychologist conducting tests on hamsters has a dream wherein they become so intelligent that they escape their cages and turn the tables on him subjecting him to electric shocks whenever he attempts to leave the house. When he awakes from the dream, he terminates his intelligence enhancing experiment and gives the hamsters away as pets. |
Pencils | Dick Ayers |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Reprinted | in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #9 |
Synopsis | This story attempts to build drama by leading the reader to believe that a bus and a car are going to collide during the night but the last panel reveals the bus was traveling on the planet Mercury and so there was no danger of collision between the two vehicles. |
Reprinted | in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Cass, 1962 series) #231 |
Synopsis | After the first atomic bomb explodes children are born with the ability to read minds, which the government put to use as a tactical defense against the Communists. |
Pencils | Vic Carrabotta (signed) |
Inks | Vic Carrabotta (signed) |
Reprinted | in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #9; in Suspense Stories (Alan class, 1963 series) #161 |
Synopsis | A man from Atlantis tours the scientific achievements of the surface world. |
Synopsis | Mankind retreats from atomic horror to live underground for so many years that the past is forgotten and no one recalls why they had to leave the surface. One boy finds that he cannot be like the others and simply accept the situation so he takes the last remaining shaft up to the surface world. Opening the hatch sets off an alarm and the rest of the security detail follow him up to the surface where they discover a new paradise. |
Pencils | Mort Lawrence (signed) |
Inks | Mort Lawrence (signed) |
Notes | Signed M.L. on first page. |
Reprinted | in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #9; in Suspense Stories (Alan Class, 1963 series) #161 |