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Issue Details

Issue #53
Published November 1956
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "He Walks in the Night!"

4 page story "Inside the Locked Trunk!"

Synopsis A man tells his brother that there is a great treasure in a locked trunk that will one day be his if he remains with him but he refuses to allow him to look in the trunk. One day, the brother steals the key and looks in the trunk and finds a passage to another world where a girl is in the same predicament with her cruel sister. The man escapes back to his world and the girl follows him and they leave the brother's house to make their way in the world together.

2 page text story "The Magic Carpet"

Letters typeset
Reprinted from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #35 (November 1955) [originally titled "The Rug"]

4 page story "I Entered the Forbidden Lagoon!"

Synopsis A man cheats his partner out of the pearls of a lagoon and the natives curse him until he gives the money back and the waters of the lagoon forgive him.

3 page story "The Threat!"

Synopsis Aliens land and demand a representative from Earth to judge for worthiness to join the galactic federation. If the representative is deemed unworthy the planet will be destroyed. So the president sends...his little girl.

4 page story "The Man Who Wasn't!"

Notes a story similar to The Twilight Zone's "Steel" but in this story the human fighter defeats the robot.

4 page story "He Walks in the Night!"

Synopsis A man with mental powers threatens to destroy an inventor that has come up with a machine that could reveal his presence to the authorities, but when the evil man threatens the inventor's daughter, he shakes off the mental hold he has over him and knocks him out with the butt of his gun.

story "The City that Sank!"

Synopsis A pilot stumbles across a submersible city that raises above and lowers below the waves.