World of Fantasy
#10
(February 1958)
Marvel,
1956 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1957-10-28
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Chipiden Publishing Corp.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
Distributed to newsstands in October 1957. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
On sale date from the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 12, Part 2, No. 1, Periodicals, Jan.-June 1958. The issue number is incorrectly recorded in the Catalog as #11. The registration number for this issue is B687829. The issue number is listed correctly in the October 21, 1985, copyright renewal, under registration number RE262431.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
On sale date from the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 12, Part 2, No. 1, Periodicals, Jan.-June 1958. The issue number is incorrectly recorded in the Catalog as #11. The registration number for this issue is B687829. The issue number is listed correctly in the October 21, 1985, copyright renewal, under registration number RE262431.
I Went through the Veil!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- K-119
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Lise; Ralph
- Synopsis
- A married man is taken into the future by a girl who falls in love with him. He is sent back to the past, but the girl is comforted by the knowledge that as she is his wife's exact double, a double for her love must exist in the future as well.
- Reprints
The Silent Street
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- M-394
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A police officer makes his night rounds thinking that nothing interesting ever happens in the neighborhood while two aliens are conducting a life or death struggle among the rooftops.
- Reprints
-
in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #12 (1960) -
in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #10 (June 1975)
-
Indexer Notes
Pencils credit from atlastales.com
The Secret Men
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- M-325
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Capt. Shaw
- Synopsis
- The skeptical Captain Shaw and his soldiers search for a fabled city in the Rocky Mountains. Shaw seems to be killed and the soldiers turn back, but Shaw was really one of the inhabitants of the city, and levitates home to report that they are safe.
- Reprints
-
in Der Eiserne (BSV - Williams, 1975 series) #5 - in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #2 ([1962])
- in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #11 (June 1974)
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #235 ([circa 1986 - 1987])
-
Indexer Notes
Oleck script per Martin O'Hearn: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2019/08/jack-oleck-stories-in-three-atlas…
The Last Stop
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- M-390
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A driver feels guilty for not stopping to help a man he hits and so each successive day the truck he drives parks itself in front of a cemetery. He confesses to the police and the mechanics who check his truck inform him that the engine comes from a hearse so it was merely force of habit that the truck went to the cemetery every day.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #2 ([1962])
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #23 (August 1974) which is reprinted
-
in Dracula (Arédit-Artima, 1974 series) #17 (2ème trimestre 1978) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]] - in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #235 ([circa 1986 - 1987])
-
The Mystery of the Smiling Man!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- M-374
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #2 ([1962]), #235 ([circa 1986 - 1987])
-
The Amazing Bubble
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- K-160
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Jonathan Jr.; Nora; Jonathan Sr.; Mr. Bigger
- Synopsis
- A boy discovers a formula to blow unbreakable bubbles and accidentally entraps his father's boss.
- Reprints
- from Journey into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1950 series) #49 (September 1956) [as "The Amazing Bubble"]
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #2 ([1962]), #235 ([circa 1986 - 1987])
-
The Books That Were Alive
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- K-48
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Bert Wells; Doris Wells
- Synopsis
- Bert Wells finds some books from space that allow him to experience the adventures contained within.
- Reprints
- in Der Eiserne (BSV - Williams, 1975 series) #6
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #2 ([1962])
- in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #11 (June 1974)
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #235 ([circa 1986 - 1987])
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Secret Men!
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1.
I Went through the Veil!
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2.
The Silent Street
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3.
The Secret Men
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4.
The Last Stop
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5.
The Mystery of the Smiling Man!
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6.
The Amazing Bubble
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7.
The Books That Were Alive
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- Merlin Haas
- Ethan Hoddes
- Michael Hoskin
- Hunter Johnson
- Mike Nielsen
- Gregory Roe
- Karsten S.
- Jim Van Dore
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