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Issue Details

Issue #54
Published October 1956
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "When the Walls Close In!"

Genre horror
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett
Notes Credit information from www.atlastales.com.

5 page story "The Old Man's Secret!"

Synopsis A man crosses the mountains of Tibet in order to gain the secret of immortality. He meets a young man and an old man and convinces the young man to let him take the old man back to civilization with him in order to analyze his body chemistry. When he gets back, his friend, whom has met the couple before, tells him that he brought back the wrong man. He brought back the immortal man's son.
Genre Fantasy
Pencils Sid Greene
Inks Sid Greene
Notes John Giunta credit changed based on information from www.atlastales.com. [Mike Nielsen 3/2010]. Credit information from www.atlastales.com.
Reprinted in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #16 (April 1975) [-1 page]

4 page story "Nightmare at Noon!"

Synopsis When a woman threatens to leave a man unless he sells his island for cash, he has a vision of a woman being threatened by pirates. He defeats the pirates, and as a reward she gives him a ring and a promise to return someday as the vision fades. When he comes to he finds he still has the ring and the client the real estate broker brings in to show the island is the spitting image of the woman from his vision.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Angelo Torres
Inks Angelo Torres
Reprinted In Worlds Unknown (Marvel, 1973 series) #1

4 page story "Man with Wings!"

Synopsis Leonardo Da Vinci has nightmares about being able to fly.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Bob Forgione
Inks Jack Abel
Notes Credit information from www.atlastales.com.

4 page story "No Trespassing!"

Synopsis When a rich man finds a beam of light shining on his property with healing properties, he fences it off and charges five thousand dollars for access. The beam turns out to be an alien weapon test and, when increased to full power, wipes out the man's estate reducing him to poverty.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Hy Fleishman
Inks Hy Fleishman
Notes Credit information from www.atlastales.com.

2 page text story "Discovery"

Characters Chauncey; Zeke; Muscles Magee
Synopsis A scrawny man is given a magic candy bar that confers great strength, but he discovers that he already posesses more strength than he suspects.
Genre occult
Pencils Marie Severin
Inks Marie Sevein
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration. Joe Maneely credit changed based on information from www.atlastales.com. [Mike Nielsen 3/2010]
Reprinted in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #67 (February 1959); in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #86 (July 1961); in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952) #83 (August 1962); in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #105 (February 1963); in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #42 (June 1963)

3 page story "The World of Flame!"

Synopsis A giant wave tosses a ship up to the sun.
Genre Science Fiction
Pencils Charles F. Miller
Inks Charles F. Miller
Reprinted in Amazing Adventures (Marvel, 1970 series) #26 (September 1974); in Uomo Ragno, L' [Collana Super-Eroi] (Editoriale Corno, 1970 series) #187

4 page story "When the Walls Close In!"

Synopsis An escaped war criminal feels claustrophobia until his guilt makes him confess.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Bob Brown ?
Inks Bob Brown ?
Notes Credit information from www.atlastales.com.
Reprinted in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #9