(August 1957)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- bi-monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Classic Syndicate, Inc.
- Brand:
- Atlas [black & white]
- Editing:
- Stan Lee
- Format:
- 4 Color; Standard Golden Age US; Newsprint; Saddle-Stitched; On-Going Series
Issue Notes
all information from this issue from www.atlastales.com.
The Thirteenth Floor!
cover / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Bill Everett
- Inks:
- Bill Everett
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
Indexer Notes
Cover credits per Atlastales.com and Nick Caputo.
Someday It Will Open
comic story / 4 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Richard Doxsee
- Inks:
- Richard Doxsee
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- M-155
Content Information
- Synopsis:
- An anthropologist steals a "thought pod" from a native tribe and uses it to recreate himself at the age of twenty-one.
The Thirteenth Floor
comic story / 4 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- M-159
Content Information
- Synopsis:
- A hotel employee is the only one who perceives a ghost floor, number 13 that burned sixty years ago and was not rebuilt. When he resolves to steal the ghost's jewels, he plummets to his doom when the fire breaks out again and snaps the elevator cable.
Mister Backwards!
comic story / 4 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Frank Bolle
- Inks:
- Frank Bolle
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- M-130
Content Information
- Synopsis:
- A man buys an hourglass that makes time flow backwards when he tips it upside down, but when he tries to destroy it, he becomes trapped inside.
Too Dangerous to Live
comic story / 4 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- M-172
Content Information
- Synopsis:
- A scientist behind the iron curtain creates an air purifier to counteract the poison of his first invention.
Travelling Tom
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- H-203
Content Information
- Genre:
- fantasy
- Characters:
- Tom Morton; Jack Morton; Ellen Morton; Johnny Morton
- Synopsis:
- A man who has travelled the world and seen wonders performed by hermits in India returns home to find that his young nephew creates magic with only belief.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
-
from Strange Tales of the Unusual (Marvel, 1955 series) #1 (December 1955) [as "Travelling Tom"]
-
The Strange Sea!
comic story / 3 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Alfonso Greene
- Inks:
- Alfonso Greene
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- M-125
Content Information
- Synopsis:
- When a sailor becomes lost at sea, he is saved by the ghost of his great grandfather, who was the captain of his own vessel.
The Face in the Mirror!
comic story / 4 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Joe Orlando
- Inks:
- Joe Orlando
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- M-169
Content Information
- Synopsis:
- A violent criminal is under the impression that his face is beginning to look like an animal after every time he hits a robbery victim. When he looks into a mirror, he panics and runs into the street where he is struck, not realizing it is a gimmick mirror.
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