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World of Fantasy, #11

Published: April 1958

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World of Fantasy #11

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Issue Contents:
He Was a Prisoner of the Fantastic Fog!
1 page science fiction
Characters
  • Sam Morgan
Credits
Story Notes

Nick Caputo suspects this is an Everett-drawn cover, with the policeman added by Maneely. Cover previously credited to Joe Maneely, pencils and inks.

Prisoner of the Fantastic Fog
Story 1 4 pages science fiction
Storyline

A man asks his gangster brother for money to perfect his shrink gas, but when he can't get any, he vents the gas outside, and his brother walks into it and shrinks. He turns himself in to a policeman, but the effect is only temporary since the gas is not perfected.

Characters
  • Sam Morgan
  • Dr. Jerry Morgan
Credits
Story Notes

Dr. Morgan later appears as one of the Headmen (first in The Defenders (Marvel, 1972 series) #21), villains created by Steve Gerber.

Nightmare at Midnight
Story 2 4 pages fantasy
Storyline

A dream searches for the correct dreamer before midnight, but after trying a couple of sleepers realizes it has made a mistake and dissolves. The man who was supposed to have a dream about falling from a great height was a convict attempting a prison break. Since he had no warning, he attempted to scale the high wall and fell to his death.

Characters
  • John
  • Mike
Credits
The Sinister Stone
Story 3 3 pages fantasy
Storyline

A thief steals a ruby dedicated to the god of rain, and heavy rains follow him wherever he goes until he decides to return the ruby.

Credits
He Never Reached the Ground!
Story 4 4 pages fantasy
Storyline

A man falls 35 floors but disappears at ground level just before impact, saved by a Tibetan mystic indebted to his great-grandfather.

Characters
  • Wally Ober
  • Llada
Credits
He's Coming to Get Me!
Story 5 4 pages science fiction
Storyline

A man who cheated his brother out of their father's money gets a letter stating that his brother is "coming to get him." He puts a gun under his jacket since he thinks his brother is out for revenge, but he discards it when his brother leads him to a rocket ship and tells him that he didn't want him to be the last man on Earth.

Characters
  • Peter Wilcox
  • Ralph Wilcox
Credits
Make A Wish
Story 6 2 pages fantasy
Storyline

A man invents a wishing machine but loses the prototype on the way to the patent office.

Characters
  • Gerald Harper
  • Jimmy Gordon
  • Mrs. Gordon
  • Mr. Gordon
Story Notes

Text story with illustration. The last page is split with the statement of ownership.

Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 (Title 39, United States Code, Section 233)
Story 7 0 pages
Story Notes

Shares the second page of "Make a Witch!" Average monthly circulation not printed.

The Mad Scientist!
Story 8 4 pages science fiction
Storyline

An old man forces a scientist to use an experimental process to cure a young boy. When he is done, he explains that the scientist’s lab will soon be destroyed and the process lost. He is the future version of the scientist, and the boy is his son.

Characters
  • Mark Ferris
Credits