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Issue Details

Issue #131
Published February 1955
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Five Fingers!"

5 page story "The Man Who Bought a Dingbat"

Synopsis A used car salesman takes as a trade-in a car that transports him to another planet where he becomes stranded without gas among hostile alien creatures.
Notes Title, page count and job number from www.atlastales.com.

2 page text story "The Journey"

Characters Jon Randall; Hannes Bache
Synopsis An artist alters a matter transmitter to create images out of the human imagination, but more than just the image of the imagined monster is created.
Genre science fiction
Letters typeset
Reprinted from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #15 (December 1952) [originally titled "Peril on Paper"]

5 page story "Five Fingers"

Synopsis A pickpocket creates a wax hand so that he can set it in his coat while his real hand does his dirty deeds. When he picks the wrong tough guy target, the guy feels his wallet being lifted and tells the thief he doesn't have time to find a cop but he is going to punish him by mashing his hand. The thief shifts his real hand inside his coat so that the wax hand takes the beating. When he's standing next to a cop on train, the resentful wax hand pulls the cop's gun and points it at the cop's partner who shoots the thief dead.
Pencils Paul Hodge
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4 page story "The Rookie"

Notes This is retold in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #43 (May 1963) as "Frankie's Fast Ball" by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber. Title, page count and job number from www.atlastales.com.

4 page story "Farewell-Moon"

Synopsis Werewolves on the moon led by a tyrant plot to conquer Earth so they send a scout that, if slain, will cause them to cancel their invasion plans. The creature is doglike enough in appearance to be found and taken in by a little girl who showers love upon him so he returns to his spaceship and pulls the self-destruct lever before heading back to his new home.
Pencils Howie Post
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5 page story "While Death Waits"

Synopsis A miner trapped by a cave-in, figuring rescue impossible, confesses to his buddies that he's a murderer but then they are rescued nonetheless.
Pencils Gene Colan
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