Amazing Stories of Suspense #59

High Level Visitor (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Joe Gill ?

Pencils

Bill Molno

Inks

Bill Molno ?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

A-4130

First Line of Dialogue or Text

When Eddie's parents moved to the big city, Eddie was quite excited!

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Eddie; Mr. Mado

Reprints

• from Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds (Charlton, 1956 series) #45 (February 1965)

Indexer Notes

Possible Molno inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Rocco Mastroserio.

The Indestructibles (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Joe Gill ?

Pencils

Bill Molno

Inks

Vince Alascia ?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

A-3687

First Line of Dialogue or Text

On the barren, uninhabited planet Tauris,

Genre

science fiction

Reprints

• from Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds (Charlton, 1956 series) #45 (February 1965)

The Creatures in the Volcano (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Jack Kirby ?

Pencils

Jack Kirby

Inks

Wally Wood

Letters

Artie Simek

Job Number

T-153

First Line of Dialogue or Text

There is a story that Grandfather used to tell me when I was a child...

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Tubuai; Mauiki

Synopsis

A chief of a Pacific island tribe finds aliens in a volcano preparing to conquer Earth. He thinks his people will not believe him, so he instead agrees to sell the island to the US for nuclear tests, which destroys the aliens.

Reprints

• from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #51 (March 1959)

Warning! Plutonium Pirates! (Table of Contents: 4)

Nemesis / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script

Richard Hughes (credited as Shane O'Shea)

Pencils

Chic Stone

Inks

Chic Stone

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

It isn't always money alone that lies behind crime.

Genre

superhero

Characters

Nemesis; Grim Reaper; Professor Ivan Watusi; Burning Bertha

Synopsis

Red China and Russia have been stealing plutonium so Nemesis plans to stop them.

Reprints

• from Adventures into the Unknown (American Comics Group, 1948 series) #167 (September 1966)

Keywords

plutonium

A True Crime Story (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

crime

Reprints

• from Racket Squad in Action (Charlton, 1952 series) #16 (May 1955)

Indexer Notes

Second page has spaces at top and bottom to replace original statement of ownership.

The Prison Planet! (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Carl Burgos

Inks

Carl Burgos

Letters

Artie Simek

Job Number

T-155

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Uxmal--- come quickly!! Look at this!

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Vaalu (narrator); Uxmal (in framing sequence)

Synopsis

A prison colony grows into a thriving society and forgets its origins, while the mother planet becomes a peaceful utopia before being devastated by invaders. The mother planet was Mars, and the prison planet Earth.

Reprints

• from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #51 (March 1959)

Indexer Notes

This story is narrated by some kind of alien "watchers", bearing no resemblance to the later Watchers.

The Man Who Went Too Far (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Robert Q. Sale (signed as Robert Q. Sale)

Inks

Robert Q. Sale (signed as Robert Q. Sale)

Letters

?

Job Number

K-999

First Line of Dialogue or Text

This is the Brentwood institution!

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Dr. Peter Fulton; Anne Bond (his fiancee- a nurse); Johnson

Reprints

• from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #56 (February 1957)

The Thing on the Mountain (Table of Contents: 8)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Joe Gill ?

Pencils

Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio

Inks

Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio

Letters

typeset

Job Number

A-4250

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Some men are born for adventure!

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Characters

Bill Maler; Tom Maler (brothers);

Reprints

• from Strange Suspense Stories (Charlton, 1955 series) #74 (March-April 1965)

The Victim! (Table of Contents: 9)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Vic Carrabotta (signed as Vic Carrabotta)

Inks

Vic Carrabotta (signed as Vic Carrabotta)

Letters

?

Job Number

K-428

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Adam J. Stokes, despite his impressive appearance, was simply a crook!

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Adam J. Stokes; Charles Perkins (inventor - alien from Pluto))

Synopsis

A confidence man becomes the kidnap victim of an alien from Pluto who needs to demonstrate to his people that his transference device works.

Reprints

• from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #40 (November 1956)

While the City Slumbers! (Table of Contents: 10)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Paul Reinman (signed)

Inks

Paul Reinman (signed)

Letters

?

Job Number

K-942

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Only one youth knows of the strange, evil men!

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Dan Smith; Joe Smith (his son) Ted; Irene

Synopsis

Angry molemen want revenge for being forced to live in warrens on the outskirts of San Francisco so they plan an invasion. When the earthquake brought on by their tunneling produces multiple fires, they figure that the citizens must have thought to destroy their town rather then have them take it over, so they return to their caves and collapse the entrance behind them.

Reprints

• from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #56 (February 1957)

Indexer Notes

Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11)

Dick Cole / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Jim Wilcox

Inks

Jim Wilcox

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Dick risks his life on a mission of mercy...

Genre

adventure

Characters

Dick Cole; Randolph Gray (introduction); Mrs. Gray; Jenkins

Reprints

• from Blue Bolt (Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1940 series) #v10#2 [101] (September-October 1949)

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promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)