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Issue Details

Issue #57
Published January 1957
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee?

Cover Details

Pencils Bill Everett (signed)
Inks Bill Everett (signed)

4 page story "Inside the Furnace!"

Synopsis A man goes back in time and robs himself.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Robert Q. Sale (signed)
Inks Robert Q. Sale (signed)

4 page story "The Black Boxes!"

Synopsis In the year 1958, when ICBMs become a reality, mysterious black boxes appear in the sky which render them ineffectual.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Dick Ayers

4 page story "The Unknown Ones!"

Synopsis A lovesick space explorer finds another love in a Martian princess who gives up her claim to the throne to be with him.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Al Williamson (signed)
Inks Al Williamson (signed)

4 page story "They Lurk in the Cave!"

Synopsis A man thinks himself a failure until he helps a galactic policeman foil a criminal plot.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Werner Roth
Inks Werner Roth
Notes Credit information from www.atlastales.com.

2 page text story "Loony House"

Characters Doyle Fairless; Sandy Clark
Synopsis A man is thought mad for designing underground homes, until everyone moves underground and surface-dwellers are thought mad.
Genre science fiction
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustrations.
Reprinted from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #34 (January 1957) [originally titled "Underground"]

3 page story "He Can't Lose!"

Synopsis In the year 2145 the Communists and western nations compete in Olympic games in order to determine economic spoils as nuclear war would be too devastating. The Communists cheat and use a robot, but are discovered and disqualified.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Vic Carrabotta (signed)
Inks Vic Carrabotta (signed)

4 page story "The Strange Power of Mr. Dunn!"

Synopsis A man develops a cell growth formula to help out his carnival-owner friend as an attraction.
Genre fantasy
Pencils John Romita
Inks John Romita
Reprinted in Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #14