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Issue Details

Issue #53
Published September 1956
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Down in the Cellar!"

Pencils Bill Everett (signed)
Inks Bill Everett

4 page story "The Hidden Valley!"

Synopsis A thousand-year old tribe builds a 'thoughtscope' in order to contact Mars, but the Martians use the device to place them into suspended animation. An explorer breaks the device, freeing them.
Pencils Lou Morales (signed)
Inks Lou Morales (signed)
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

4 page story "There Were 3 Victims!"

Synopsis Three men survive being tossed out into the airless vacuum of space and reverse the direction of the rocketship so that it does not convey criminals to Mars.
Pencils Sid Greene
Inks Sid Greene
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #14

4 page story "Trapped in the Tunnel!"

Synopsis A romantic ghost story about a dead woman who returns a compliment by saving the lives of some trapped tunnel workers.
Pencils John Forte (signed)
Inks John Forte (signed)
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

4 page story "The Hunter's Prey"

Synopsis Some hunters encounter a mammoth that turns out to be a circus animal from outer space.
Pencils Dave Berg (signed)
Inks Dave Berg (signed)
Notes Job Number information from www.atlastales.com.

2 page text story "The Utopia"

Characters Bob Winkle; Fred Dunn
Synopsis Two old friends deceive each other about their own success, until a dream of a heavenly restaurant teaches them the importance of honesty.
Genre fantasy
Reprinted in Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #60 (June 1957) [as "The Restaurant in the Sky"]; in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #52 (March 1959); in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #82 (March 1961); in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1951 series) #68 (May 1961); in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #46 (October 1963)

3 page story "Down in the Cellar!"

Synopsis Mermaids buy a leaky house.
Pencils Ted Galindo (signed)
Inks Ted Galindo (signed)
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

4 page story "Build Me A Machine!"

Synopsis A scientist builds a time machine for a dictator who wishes to travel 50 years into the past with gold and plans for the H-Bomb in order to escape a losing war. Unfortunately for him, the device drops him into the past as he was 50 years ago, an infant.
Pencils Steve Ditko (signed)
Inks Steve Ditko (signed)
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.