Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds #5

(October 1957)

Live for Reunion (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Joe Gill ?

Pencils

Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks

Steve Ditko (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Jon D'Agostino

Job Number

S-2129

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

Hal returns to where his parents disappeared twenty years ago and can't decide whether to join them or not.

Reprints

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #50, #124 ([circa 1971 - 1972]), #196 ([circa 1980 - 1981])
• in Steve Ditko's The Thing! (Pure Imagination, 2006 series) (2006)
• in The Steve Ditko Archives (Fantagraphics, 2009 series) #3 - Mysterious Traveler (April 2012)
• in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #27 (2015)
• in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #2331-A - Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds Readers Giant #1 (2019)

Stranger in the House (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Joe Gill ?

Pencils

Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks

Steve Ditko (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Jon D'Agostino

Job Number

S-1942

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

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.

Reprints

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #85
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #23 ([1964 ?])
• in Steve Ditko's The Thing! (Pure Imagination, 2006 series) (2006)
• in The Steve Ditko Archives (Fantagraphics, 2009 series) #3 - Mysterious Traveler (April 2012)
• in Ditko's Shorts (IDW, 2014 series) (November 2014)
• in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #2331-A - Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds Readers Giant #1 (2019)

Keywords

dollhouse; toy soldier

The Mirage (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks

Steve Ditko (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

S1681

Genre

drama

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.

Reprints

• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #23 ([1964 ?])
• in Steve Ditko Reader (Pure Imagination, 2002 series) #3 (2005)
• in The Steve Ditko Archives (Fantagraphics, 2009 series) #2 - Unexplored Worlds (November 2010)
• in The Creativity of Ditko (IDW, 2012 series) #[nn] (July 2012)
• in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #2331-A - Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds Readers Giant #1 (2019)

Keywords

desert; mirage; oasis; prison escape

Aucas (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

adventure

Reprints

• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #32
• in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #2331-A - Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds Readers Giant #1 (2019)

Stowaway (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Joe Gill ?

Pencils

Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks

Steve Ditko (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Jon D'Agostino

Job Number

S1306

Genre

science fiction

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.

Reprints

• in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #43
• in Steve Ditko's The Thing! (Pure Imagination, 2006 series) (2006)
• in The Steve Ditko Archives (Fantagraphics, 2009 series) #2 - Unexplored Worlds (November 2010)
• in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #2331-A - Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds Readers Giant #1 (2019)

Keywords

stowaway

A Dreamer's World (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Joe Gill ?

Pencils

Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks

Steve Ditko (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Jon D'Agostino

Job Number

S1573

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

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.

Reprints

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #85
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #23 ([1964 ?])
• in Steve Ditko's The Thing! (Pure Imagination, 2006 series) (2006)
• in The Steve Ditko Archives (Fantagraphics, 2009 series) #2 - Unexplored Worlds (November 2010)
• in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #2331-A - Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds Readers Giant #1 (2019)
• in Out of This World (Robin Snyder and Steve Ditko, 2015 series) #33 (Summer 2021)

Our Atomic Future (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

?

Genre

non-fiction; math & science

Synopsis

Writeup of the benefits of nuclear energy.

Reprints

• from Rocket Ship X (Fox, 1951 series) #1 (September 1951)
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #23 ([1964 ?])
• in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #2331-A - Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds Readers Giant #1 (2019)

Indexer Notes

Only the first page of the original is reprinted here.