World of Fantasy #5

(January 1957)

Fade-Out! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Bob Powell

Inks

Bob Powell

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

K-936

Synopsis

A man desires his cousin's wife-to-be so he uses a time machine to go five years into the future and frame him for a crime he didn't commit by dropping his wife's picture at the scene as incriminating evidence. When he returns to the present day, the woman breaks off the engagement and tells him she loves him.

Reprints

• in Weird Planets (Alan Class, 1962 series) #9 (1962)
• in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #46 (1969 ?)
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #241 ([circa 1987 - 1988])
• in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #21 (2014)

Indexer Notes

Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.

The Man Who Plunged! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

John Forte

Inks

John Forte

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

L-52

Synopsis

A man learns that he has to work for what he wishes.

Reprints

• in Weird Planets (Alan Class, 1962 series) #9 (1962)
• in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #46 (1969 ?)

Death Waits Below! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Tony DiPreta

Inks

Tony DiPreta

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

L-87

Synopsis

African natives see a white man parachute from a plane and consider him a bird-god. They take him to a cliff and expect him to leap off and fly.

Reprints

• in Weird Planets (Alan Class, 1962 series) #9 (1962)
• in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #46 (1969 ?)
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #241 ([circa 1987 - 1988])

Smaller... Smaller... Smaller! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Vince Colletta

Inks

Vince Colletta

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

L-64

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

A thief thinks his victim has cursed him to shrink when he tries to hide in a hothouse of plants enlarged by genetic engineering.

Reprints

• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #29
• in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #61 (1970 ?)
• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #221 ([circa 1988 - 1989])

The Giveaway (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

F-827

Reprints

• from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #37 (May 1955) [retitled]
• in Weird Planets (Alan Class, 1962 series) #9 (1962)
• in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #46 (1969 ?)

Back to the Lost City! (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Jack Oleck

Pencils

Dave Berg (signed as Davy Berg)

Inks

Dave Berg (signed as Davy Berg)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

K-961

Synopsis

Two men experience a mirage in the desert and are later found and brought to a hospital to recover. One of the men recovers first and finds a necklace in the table next to the other and figures that the mirage was actually a real city filled with emeralds. He leaves the hospital and the doctor tells the recovering patient that he left a necklace of glass emeralds for his wife in his room.

Reprints

• in Weird Planets (Alan Class, 1962 series) #9 (1962)
• in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #46 (1969 ?)
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #241 ([circa 1987 - 1988])

Indexer Notes

Oleck script per Martin O'Hearn: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2019/08/jack-oleck-stories-in-three-atlas…

Beware the Eyes of Arch! (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bernard Baily

Inks

Bernard Baily

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

K-919

Synopsis

A cleaning lady plays a practical joke on a man who thinks he has discovered the power of Medusa by placing a stone canary in the bird cage. He thinks he has turned the bird into stone by glancing at it, so he attempts to rob the bank and is arrested.

Reprints

• in Weird Planets (Alan Class, 1962 series) #9 (1962)
• in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #46 (1969 ?)
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #241 ([circa 1987 - 1988])