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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published April 1959
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in January 1959. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "I Was Face to Face with the Creature From Planet X!"

Characters Cynthia Adams; "The Creature from Planet X"
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Christopher Rule

5 page story "I Was a Human Satellite!"

Synopsis A claustrophobic finds his fear too great for him to bear and he takes an escape pod out of the space patrol ship. He comes upon an asteroid that turns out to be a pirate base and he conquers his fear to send out a warning in a small radio room. When the space patrol lands and apprehends the pirates they welcome him back to the force.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

2 page text story "Special Sale"

Characters Marvin Kale; Paula Kale
Synopsis When a husband goes shopping he finds a new cleaning fluid that makes anything better than new, even him.
Genre occult
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Strange Tales of the Unusual (Marvel, 1955 series) #5 (August 1956)

5 page story "My Job...Catch A Robot"

Characters Lyle Cushing; Dr. Samuel Weems; Col. Peters
Synopsis The head of the robotics division goes to the American colony on the moon to investigate thefts of uranium that could only have been committed by the robot miners. He uncovers the thief, a human posing as a robot, since he knew the criminal could not have been a robot like himself.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Joe Sinnott
Inks Joe Sinnott
Notes Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

4 page story "I Was Face to Face with the Creature From Planet X!"

Characters Cynthia Adams; "The Creature from Planet X"
Synopsis In 2165 when a woman is locked in a zoo with a powerful alien beast that smashes free of its domed enclosure she is relieved when the attendants rush in with a replacement dome. They tell her that the dome is to restore the creature's native atmosphere, not for her protection.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Christopher Rule
Notes Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

5 page story "I Was the Man Who Lived Twice!"

Characters Gyor Kosice; Maria
Synopsis A boy adopted by gypsies refuses to work hard and lives a wasted life. As he reaches middle ages he is given a second chance at life when he is shown a fountain of youth and returned to infancy, to be found and adopted by another gypsy couple.
Genre occult
Pencils John Buscema
Inks John Buscema
Notes Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #2 (1963)

4 page story "I Fly to the Stars!"

Characters Frank Coventry; Sally Lang
Synopsis In the year 2389 space pilots do not marry because, while six months passes for them on their journeys, decades pass for their sweethearts who remain behind on Earth.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Christopher Rule
Notes Inker credit and job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #2 (1963)