Issue Contents:
Credits
- Pencils: Carl Burgos
- Inks: Carl Burgos
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
Story Notes
Cover credits obtained from an article in From The Tomb #10 (June, 2003) by Dr. Michael J. Vassallo and Frank Motler via the GCD Comics Database List. Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
Karnoff's Plan
"Never has a stranger, more mysterious thing happened to this city..."
Storyline
A Puppet Master type story but his material works on buildings as well as people. He meets his doom when his landlady sells his statue of himself along with other personal items for nonpayment of rent and the buyer tosses it in the trash.
Credits
- Script: Bill Everett (uncertain)
- Pencils: Bill Everett
- Inks: Bill Everett
- Letters: Bill Everett
Story Notes
Signature can be barely discerned within the debris from the exploding building on page 1.
Music Master
"Joe was one of regulars with the popular Rhythm Makers orchestra."
Storyline
A struggling band takes on a poor but talented young harp player who turns out to be a young angel studying on Earth.
Credits
- Pencils: John Darkow
- Inks: John Darkow
Blind Spot
"He walked along the street..."
Storyline
A homely alien is going to recommend humans be destroyed to preserve the galactic peace when he saves a blind girl from being struck by a car. After she tells him she can sense his inner nobility he changes his recommendation to allow humans to develop their space-faring capability.
Credits
- Pencils: Sid Greene
- Inks: Sid Greene
- Letters: Joe Letterese
Story Notes
This story is reminiscent of Alicia Master's first meeting with the Silver Surfer.
The Secret of the Ship
"They all laughed at your ancient fleet..."
Storyline
A young boy who plays with toy ships loses his paper route job when he is late once too often. The family needs extra money because the father is home recovering from an illness. The boy thinks his ship has become lost, but after awhile it returns loaded with black pearls it has traded for at a distant port.
Credits
- Script: Paul S. Newman
- Pencils: Kurt Schaffenberger
- Inks: Kurt Schaffenberger
The Man Mountain!
"In days of old, in fairy tales..."
Storyline
A story that explains the circumstances of the old woman who had so many children she didn't know what to do came to live in a shoe.
Credits
- Pencils: Norman Maurer
- Inks: Norman Maurer
- Letters: Artie Simek
Five Who Volunteered
"A strangely dressed man led five solemn volunteers across the field..."
Storyline
A TV producer of a candid-camera type show contacts an inventor who doesn't believe his rocket can fly to Venus. The producer says that's ok because he wants to advertise for five people who wish to leave Earth and film them being fooled by the fraud for the audience's amusement. The inventor agrees and is surprised when his rocket actually does succeed in reaching Venus, but not nearly as surprised as the producer and his film crew when the five recruits shape-shift into Venusians who are glad to be home.
Credits
- Script: Carl Wessler
- Pencils: Joe Sinnott
- Inks: Joe Sinnott
Story Notes
Wessler credit per biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol. 25, No. 10, October 2013.