World of Fantasy, #5

Published: January 1957

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World of Fantasy #5

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Beware... The Eyes of Arch!
1 page horror-suspense
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Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.

Fade-Out!
Story 1 4 pages
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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.

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

The Man Who Plunged!
Story 2 4 pages
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A man learns that he has to work for what he wishes.

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Death Waits Below!
Story 3 4 pages
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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.

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Smaller... Smaller... Smaller!
Story 4 3 pages science fiction
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A thief thinks his victim has cursed him to shrink when he tries to hide in a hothouse of plants enlarged by genetic engineering.

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The Giveaway
Story 5 2 pages
Back to the Lost City!
Story 6 4 pages
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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.

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

Beware the Eyes of Arch!
Story 7 4 pages
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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.

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