Issue | #2 |
Published | February 1959 |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | ? |
Notes | All art credits for this issue confirmed with Dick Ayers by Gary Watson, May 2008. |
Synopsis | Adventurers are camped in a giant footprint that they think is a valley. |
Genre | horror; adventure |
Pencils | Dick Ayers |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Notes | All art credits for this issue confirmed with Dick Ayers by Gary Watson, May 2008. |
Characters | Henry Forrest; Ainsley |
Synopsis | Scientist Ainsley invents a youth serum at the Forrest Research Foundation. Owner Henry Forrest secretly injects the serum and is turned into a newborn baby. |
Genre | horror |
Script | Paul Newman [?] |
Pencils | Dick Ayers |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Notes | Inside front cover; black and white |
Characters | Emanuel Maxwell; Gretchen; Hans |
Synopsis | Emanuel Maxwell, a brilliant scientist, goes to a mountain resort for rest. He falls in love with Gretchen. Her companion, Hans, taunts Maxwell into climbing a mountain with him. They are falling into a crevasse when Maxwell wakes from a dream with a climbing rope around his waist. He plans to lead a rescue party to Hans, then propose to Gretchen. |
Genre | horror; occult |
Script | Paul Newman [?] |
Pencils | Dick Ayers |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Characters | Frank; Lester |
Synopsis | Mad scientist Lester invents a "Gravity Suspendor". His college friend Frank rushes to stop him. A flash of lightning supposedly stops Lester from activating the device. Lester gets a mental block and forgets the whole project. In the last panel, Lester's house and Frank's car are slowly settling back to Earth. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Paul Newman [?] |
Pencils | Dick Ayers |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Notes | Confusing plot |
Characters | Bill Jensen [captain]; Marie Jensen [chemist]; Dr. Brant ; Helen Brant [zoologist]; Sally Marks [biologist]; Frank Marks [navigator] |
Synopsis | A space ship carrying three married couples, all scientists, overshoots the moon and lands on Mars. They discover that Mars is habitable. |
Letters | typeset |
Characters | Mr. Baxter; Mr. Hodges |
Synopsis | Mr. Baxter, a circus owner, hires Mr. Hodges, a guide, to find a race of giants. The search is actually part of a giant's nightmare. |
Script | Paul Newman [?] |
Pencils | Dick Ayers |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Notes | Cover story; confusing plot |
Synopsis | A man who casts no shadow marries a woman who casts no shadow, then leaves her when he discovers that she also has no mirror reflection. |
Genre | occult; horror |
Script | Paul Newman[?] |
Pencils | Dick Ayers |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Notes | nonsensical plot |
Characters | John Dunn |
Synopsis | Old John Dunn is kind to everyone, even his scarecrow. He withdraws all of his savings to give to his granddaughter for her wedding. A robber who plans to steal it fails when he is terrorized by the scarecrow's shadow -- on a moonless night! |
Genre | horror; occult |
Script | Paul Newman[?] |
Pencils | Dick Ayers |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Characters | Ivan Kreisler |
Synopsis | Mad scientist Ivan Kreisler invents a beam that makes a duplicate of himself that he can telepathically direct by staying perfectly immobile. While directing the duplicate to rob a bank, he is struck by a police van driven by a technician who is tracking the telepathic waves. |
Genre | science fiction; horror |
Script | Paul Newman[?] |
Pencils | Dick Ayers |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Notes | silly plot! |
Synopsis | An automobile makes its rendezvous with a speeding train. The driver is a crash test dummy, demonstrating to the four shadowy figures (and the reader) not to ignore the stop signs at railroad crossings. |
Genre | horror; fact |
Script | Paul Newman [?] |
Pencils | Dick Ayers |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Notes | inside back cover; black and white |
Synopsis | A bald, monocled leader destroys the special investigator robot that was manufactured to destroy all other robots, saving mankind from robotic dominance. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Paul Newman [?] |
Pencils | Dick Ayers |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Notes | Back cover |