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Issue Details

Issue #49
Published May 1956
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett

4 page story "To Conquer the Moon"

Pencils Bernard Baily ?
Inks Bernard Baily ?
Notes Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

4 page story "What the Clouds Concealed"

Pencils Tony Mortellaro
Inks Tony Mortellaro
Notes Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

2 page text story "The Spirit"

Characters Bobby Davis; Tom Davis; Alice Davis;
Synopsis A young boy cleans out the attic of the old house his family moved into and meets a ghost from the Revolutionary War era.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Notes Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #55 (February 1957) [as "The Spirit of '76"]; in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #53 (July 1959); in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #17 (March 1961); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008)

4 page story "From Out of the Past!"

Synopsis Three paleontologists feel smug in their knowledge until they uncover a dig site that contains a museum constructed by prehistoric man that contains more fossil bones than they have ever gathered.
Pencils Dick Ayers ?
Inks Dick Ayers ?
Notes Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Giant-Size Chillers (Marvel, 1975 series) #1

4 page story "The Searching Man"

Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Notes Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.

6 page story "The Sudden Storm"

Synopsis A couple are encouraged to flee an approaching hurricane, but they decline. It turns out that they are Noah and his wife.
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger ?
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger ?
Notes Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Dead of Night (Marvel, 1973 series) #9

4 page story "As I Lay Sleeping"

Pencils Tony DiPreta
Inks Tony DiPreta
Notes Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.