Issue | #60 |
Published | June 1957 |
Frequency | bi-monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Genre | fantasy |
Pencils | John Severin |
Inks | John Severin |
Notes | Severin put his middle name, Powers, on the street sign |
Synopsis | A crook on the run from the law holds up in a relative's house, but when he goes down to a swim hole to drive away what he thinks are children, he is captured by gremlins who take him to their lair. |
Genre | fantasy |
Pencils | Gene Colan |
Synopsis | Crooks find a man with a treasure map tattooed on his chest and force him to lead them to it. He tells them that it is buried fifty feet deep and they dig all the way to it but can't get out of the pit. The tattooed man fades away as he is really a ghost guarding the treasure. |
Genre | fantasy |
Pencils | Al Williamson |
Inks | Ralph Mayo |
Synopsis | When a man suffers amnesia his nephew attempts to frame him for his own death in order to gain an inheritance. |
Genre | fantasy |
Pencils | Robert Q. Sale |
Inks | Robert Q. Sale |
Synopsis | Mermen leave the confines of their African lake in order to reach the expanse of the seas but die because they hadn't reckoned the seas would be salt water after living in their clear water lake. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Sidney Check |
Inks | Sidney Check |
Characters | Bob Winkle; Fred Dunn |
Synopsis | Two old friends deceive each other about their own success, until a dream of a heavenly restaurant teaches them the importance of honesty. |
Genre | fantasy |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with illustration. |
Reprinted | from Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #53 (September 1956) [originally titled "The Utopia"] |
Synopsis | A man who works as a security guard is envying the easy jobs he imagines his fellow bus passengers to have when the bus is struck by lightning and he finds himself becoming one with the other men in succession. It turns out two of them have dangerous construction jobs and the third, Matt Grimm, is a test pilot whose plane catches fire and he has to bail out. He tells his story to his wife who thinks it's a pack of lies, when suddenly he transforms into the only other man he hasn't been, the bus driver. |
Genre | fantasy |
Synopsis | When an inventor views his younger brother through a timescope he sees that he has invented an ice maker which goes out of control and threatens civilization until the inventor destroys the device and returns the future to normal. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Jay Scott Pike |
Inks | Jay Scott Pike |