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| A Steve Ditko tour de force! Great scans too. |
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| Publication | October 1957 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bi-monthly |
| Notes | Cover does not reflect any of the interior stories. |
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| Cover | What Became of the Man Who Lived for Vengeance? |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Cover does not reflect any of the interior stories. |
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| Comic Story | Live for Reunion (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Hal returns to where his parents disappeared twenty years ago and can't decide whether to join them or not. |
| Credits | Job #: S-2129 |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Stranger in the House (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | A family is shocked by the sudden appearance of a soldier in the home, instituting new discipline, but it is really just the goings-on in a dollhouse. |
| Credits | Job #: S-1942 |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy |
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| Comic Story | The Mirage (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | A man breaks out of jail on the edge of a desert and vows to cross it. Unfortunately, while a guard fired at him, he must have hit the canteen he prepared as it is now empty. As he pushes himself to crest a dune, he spies an oasis with beautiful women. He rationalizes that it must be a mirage and pushes himself to continue following the compass he has crafted deeper into the desert. After he is gone, the beautiful women wonder why the stranger turned away. |
| Credits | Job #: S1681 |
| Content | Genre: Drama |
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| Text Story | Aucas (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Comic Story | Stowaway (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | A boy stows away on a rocketship and the crew are most displeased to discover him, until he fixes some damage outside the ship picked up on its space voyage, since he is the only one small enough to fit into the duct. |
| Credits | Job #: S1306 |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction |
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| Comic Story | A Dreamer's World (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A test pilot sees a viking sailor and a young woman standing outside his cockpit. He exits his plane to speak with them. The viking tells him that he has entered a "dreamer's world," where people like him end up when they die. The woman protests that she's not dead, and the pilot realizes that she must be in trouble in the real world. The pilot grabs her by the hand and the two of them make a break for the jet cockpit. Once he lands, she is nowhere in sight, but he finds her passed out in a room of dangerous smoldering chemicals. She revives and recognizes him as the man from her vision. |
| Credits | Job #: S1573 |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy |
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| Comic Story | Our Atomic Future (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Writeup of the benefits of nuclear energy. |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Math & Science |
| Notes | Only the first page of the original is reprinted here. |
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