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Issue Details

Issue #57
Published March 1957
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "The Room of Shadows"

4 page story "Trapped in the Ant Hill!"

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4 page story "The Midnight Visitor!"

Synopsis A writer is surprised when he is confronted by the villain from his best-selling novel.
Pencils Mac Pakula
Inks Mac Pakula
Reprinted in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #20

3 page story "The Strange Prison!"

Synopsis A surface man finds himself in an underwater world where their doctors have converted his body to survive under water. The king's daughter is taken with him and so wishes to marry him, but he only wants her dowry treasure chest and steals it. He passes out on the surface since he can no longer breathe air, and is captured and placed in prison. The king tells him he will serve a two year sentence for his theft and then the doctors will reverse their work and deposit him on the surface. The dowry consisted of a chest of sea shells, which they use for currency, but would be worthless on the surface.
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett
Reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #37; in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #148

4 page story "He'd Rather Die Than Tell"

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2 page text story "Time Machine"

Synopsis A man's fascination with history leads him to build a time machine and travel to the past, but when he sees the dangers of time travel he destroys the machine and blueprints.
Genre science fiction
Letters typeset
Notes Narrated in the first person.
Reprinted from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #35 (June 1955) [originally titled "Long Ago"]; in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #66 (December 1958); in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #80 (January 1961); in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #21 (July 1961); in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #78 (March 1962); in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #31 (July 1962); in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #95 (August 1963); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)

4 page story "The Room of Shadows!"

Pencils Robert Q Sale
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4 page story You Can't Hide From the Eye!"

Pencils Joe Orlando
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