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Issue Details

Issue #61
Published August 1957
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Editing Stan Lee
Notes all information from this issue from www.atlastales.com.

Cover Details - "The Thirteenth Floor!"

Genre horror

4 page story "Someday It Will Open"

Synopsis An anthropologist steals a "thought pod" from a native tribe and uses it to recreate himself at the age of twenty-one.
Pencils Richard Doxsee
Inks Richard Doxsee

4 page story "The Thirteenth Floor"

Synopsis A hotel employee is the only one who perceives a ghost floor, number 13 that burned sixty years ago and was not rebuilt. When he resolves to steal the ghost's jewels, he plummets to his doom when the fire breaks out again and snaps the elevator cable.

4 page story "Mister Backwards!"

Synopsis A man buys an hourglass that makes time flow backwards when he tips it upside down, but when he tries to destroy it, he becomes trapped inside.
Pencils Frank Bolle
Inks Frank Bolle

4 page story "Too Dangerous to Live"

Synopsis A scientist behind the iron curtain creates an air purifier to counteract the poison of his first invention.

2 page text story "Travelling Tom"

Characters Tom Morton; Jack Morton; Ellen Morton; Johnny Morton
Synopsis A man who has travelled the world and seen wonders performed by hermits in India returns home to find that his young nephew creates magic with only belief.
Genre fantasy
Letters typeset
Reprinted from Strange Tales of the Unusual (Marvel, 1955 series) #1 (December 1955) [originally titled "The Sorcerer"]

3 page story "The Strange Sea!"

Synopsis When a sailor becomes lost at sea, he is saved by the ghost of his great grandfather, who was the captain of his own vessel.
Pencils Alfonso Greene
Inks Alfonso Greene

4 page story "The Face in the Mirror!"

Synopsis A violent criminal is under the impression that his face is beginning to look like an animal after every time he hits a robbery victim. When he looks into a mirror, he panics and runs into the street where he is struck, not realizing it is a gimmick mirror.
Pencils Joe Orlando
Inks Joe Orlando