Journey into Unknown Worlds #56

(April 1957)

The Man Who Went Too Far! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Richard Doxsee (signed)

Inks

Richard Doxsee (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

L-403

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

A scientist invents a cosmic magnet which brings down a ghost-like inhabitant of space. His partner thinks that capturing such a being for study is cruel and he knocks the magnet so that it tilts downward and pulls a similar dense creature up to the surface from the Earth's core.

Reprints

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #9 (1962)
• in Amazing Adventures (Marvel, 1970 series) #22 (January 1974)

Indexer Notes

Job number and art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group ([email protected]) April 2010.

They Won't Die! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Pete Morisi (signed)

Inks

Pete Morisi (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

L-548

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

A man finds that he and his friends all have Wolverine's healing factor. These humans with incredible healing powers are called the "other men.".

Reprints

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #9 (1962)
• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #205 ([circa 1985 - 1986])

Indexer Notes

Job number and art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group ([email protected]) April 2010.

Your Life for Mine! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Marvin Stein

Inks

Marvin Stein

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

L-552

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

A scientist builds a time travel device that requires someone from the present return to the past if one from the past is brought forward. He switches places with an alchemist just as a mob is coming for him.

Reprints

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #9 (1962), #146 ([circa 1974 - 1975]), #182 ([circa 1978 - 1979]), #219 ([circa 1984 - 1985])

Indexer Notes

Job number and art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group ([email protected]) April 2010.

It All Adds Up (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 1.66 pages (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

G-230

Reprints

• from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #31 (April (May) 1955) [as "It All Adds Up"]
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #9 (1962)

Indexer Notes

This sequence from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group ([email protected]) April 2010.

The Wrong Choice! (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Werner Roth

Inks

Werner Roth

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

L-495

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Synopsis

A pirate captain finds himself in Atlantis and granted one wish. He wishes to be seven feet tall and strong as a bull so he can strong arm the Atlanteans but they are all much bigger and more powerful than that.

Reprints

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #9 (1962), #146 ([circa 1974 - 1975]), #182 ([circa 1978 - 1979]), #219 ([circa 1984 - 1985])

Indexer Notes

Job number and art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group ([email protected]) April 2010. Features the legendary city of Atlantis, first described in Timaeus and Critias by Plato (360 BC).

The Voice in the Night! (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Frank Bolle (signed as FWB)

Inks

Frank Bolle (signed as FWB)

Colors

Stan Goldberg ?

Letters

?

Job Number

L-373

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Synopsis

In 1944 a captured US soldier hates the German sergeant who goads him into attempting an escape after he finishes carving a wooden doll for his daughter. During the attempt, the man hears a voice coming from the doll giving instructions on how to elude the enemy patrols, and many years later sees the German sergeant giving a ventriloquist performance. He realizes the sergeant had aided him in gaining his freedom.

Reprints

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #9 (1962), #146 ([circa 1974 - 1975]), #182 ([circa 1978 - 1979]), #219 ([circa 1984 - 1985])

Indexer Notes

Job number and art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group ([email protected]) April 2010. Wessler script per biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.

[Statement of Ownership] (Table of Contents: 7)

statement of ownership / 0.34 page (report information)

Script

Monroe Froehlich Jr.

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

For 1 October 1956. Stan Lee, Editor; Martin Goodman, Managing Editor; Monroe Froehlich, Jr., Business Manager.

The Impossible (Table of Contents: 8)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Everett

Inks

Bill Everett

Colors

?

Letters

Bill Everett

Job Number

L-375

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Synopsis

Once a ship-in-a-bottle is pulled out of a tub of water it had fallen into, radio S.O.S. signals that had been received cease.

Reprints

• in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #59
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #9 (1962)
• in Amazing Adventures (Marvel, 1970 series) #25 (July 1974)
• in Gamma la bombe qui a créé Hulk (Arédit-Artima, 1979 series) #12 - Entre le Marteau et l'Enclume ! (4ème trimestre 1980)

Indexer Notes

Job number and art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group ([email protected]) April 2010.