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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published December 1956
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "What Happened In The Basement?"

Genre Horror
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett

4 page story "The Things In The Window"

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.

4 page story "The Forbidden Land"

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

4 page story "Let The Creature Beware!"

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

3 page story "The Dreadful Dream"

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.

2 page text story "Secrets From Space"

Genre mystery
Letters typeset
Reprinted from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #27 (October 1955) [originally titled "The Expert"]

4 page story "The Man With Yellow Eyes"

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

4 page story "What Happened In The Basement?"

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