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. |
Genre | horror |
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 |
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. |
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 |
Synopsis | A scientist behind the iron curtain creates an air purifier to counteract the poison of his first invention. |
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"] |
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 |
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 |