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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published October 1956
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "The Bugs!"

Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett

4 page story "The Bugs"

Genre science fiction
Pencils Angelo Torres (signed)
Inks Angelo Torres (signed)
Notes same plot as The Twilight Zone's "The Invaders"

4 page story "Who Is Raymas?"

Synopsis A woman in a Communist country creates the illusion of a man to take suspicion off of her efforts as a magician to disrupt the government's war production effort.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Jack Davis
Inks Jack Davis

4 page story "The Mystery Man"

Synopsis A government agent investigates a lecturer promoting a theory of cosmic harmony because the believers are contributing large sums of money to the man. When the agent convinces the lecturer to disband the group, some in the crowd are angered and they jostle the agent so that the gun he keeps in his shoulder holster goes off. The lecturer reveals himself as a being from another dimension, heals his wounds with but a touch, and disappears vowing to return when men no longer place a monetary value on his message of cosmic harmony.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Steve Ditko (signed)
Inks Steve Ditko (signed)

4 page story "I Received Letters from Nowhere"

Synopsis An antique dealer sells mail boxes that he drops letters into requesting ten dollars for advice on making money. He is arrested for fraud, but one of the boxes he sold actually did provide wealth-producing letters for its buyer.
Genre fantasy

2 page text story "Three Wishes"

Characters Bill Barton; Mr. Sparks
Synopsis A ham radio enthusiast picks up a genie on one frequency but wastes his three wishes before he knows what's happening.
Genre fantasy
Letters typeset
Notes 1 illustration.
Reprinted from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #133 (April 1955) [originally titled "The Radio"]

3 page story "The Man Who Failed"

Synopsis An inventor thinks himself a failure because his previous attempt was to build a machine that traveled through space and now this machine was to go through time, but all it did was produce a wrenching sensation and deposit him in front of normal people. He doesn't realize that the machine actually worked to transport him through space and time to Pluto's past where the civilization there is similar to present day Earth.
Genre fantasy

4 page story "Nobody"

Synopsis An alien from another dimension is asked by his fellows to make the sacrifice of taking a pill that transforms him into a human so that the humans who are investigating his strange appearance will not be motivated to discover his origins.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Bernard Baily
Inks Bernard Baily