Issue | #4 |
Published | December 1956 |
Frequency | bi-monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Genre | Horror |
Pencils | Bill Everett |
Inks | Bill Everett |
Characters | Cal (second name unknown); an unnamed woman; an unnamed real estate agent; some other dimensional beings. |
Synopsis | Cal rents a isolated house whose former tenant, a young woman, mysteriously disappeared. He discovers that one of the house's windows lets no light into the property. Climbing through it, he enters a strange other dimension, where he finds the former tenant, and helps her escape back to their own dimension, evading some mist-like creatures. Once back in their own world, Cal smashes the window, destroying the gateway. |
Genre | Horror |
Pencils | Werner Roth |
Inks | Werner Roth |
Notes | Thanks to Dr. M. Vassallo for identifying the artist of this story. |
Characters | J.M. Evans (a pilot), Clyde Hover (a photographer), Roger Wayne (a writer - all three work for World View magazine); A tribe of Peruvian Indians (including King Tohotal); Bill Hopkins (an editor at World View magazine). |
Synopsis | World View magazine sends a team to watch an ancient ritual performed by a tribe of Peruvian Indians. The men observe the sacred rites, despite the Indians attempts to stop them. However, when they return to the magazine's offices they find that all was not what it seemed... |
Genre | Mystery |
Pencils | Paul Reinman |
Inks | Paul Reinman |
Characters | Judd Kerr; the inhabitants of the town of Keysville (including the Curvolot Family); the inhabitants of the town of Abbyville (including Hermit Eb). |
Synopsis | Conman Judd Kerr gets more than he bargained for when he tries to part the inhabitants of Abbyville by claiming that an alien is living in their midst. |
Genre | Horror |
Pencils | Bob Powell |
Inks | Bob Powell |
Characters | Frank Beech and his wife Madge; Charley (a commuter on the same train that Frank Beech uses to get to work - seen only in a dream). |
Synopsis | Frank Beech wakes from a dream in which he is involved in a train wreck. En route to work the next morning, his dream comes true - and then he wakes up. It was a dream within a dream. He decides not to tempt fate by going into work that day. |
Genre | Mystery |
Pencils | Manny Stallman |
Inks | Manny Stallman |
Notes | Thanks to Dr. M. Vassallo for assistance in identifying the artist of this story. |
Genre | mystery |
Letters | typeset |
Reprinted | from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #27 (October 1955) [originally titled "The Expert"] |
Characters | Lee Forest (a soldier nick-named "Yellow Eyes"); the unnamed narrator of the story (a fellow soldier) and other members of their platoon (including Charley); a jungle guide. |
Synopsis | Sgt. Lee Forest, nick-named 'Yellow Eyes' by the other members of his platoon, is a giant of a man, with an almost cat-like way of moving. Serving in Africa during World War II, his life is saved by another member of the platoon. Both men go their seperate ways after the war, though both remain in Africa. When his savior is attacked by a lion, Forest emerges from the jungle and calls it off. His debt repayed, 'Yellow Eyes' returns to his true home - the depths of the jungle. |
Genre | mystery |
Pencils | Dick Ayers |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Characters | John Winters (a would-be inventor); his wife Madge and two unnamed sons; citizens of the year 2496 AD. |
Synopsis | When a freak accident transports John Winters 550 years into the future, he is arrested as an alien spy. Given ten minutes to prove his innocence, he is saved when one of his sons enters the basement and switches off Winters' "accidental time machine", thus bringing the inventor back to his own time. |
Genre | Mystery |
Pencils | Mac Pakula |
Inks | Mac Pakula |