Issue Contents:
The Melting Pot!
Credits
- Pencils: Bill Everett
- Inks: Bill Everett
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
He Never Came Out!
Storyline
A wax museum owner claims that his statues are criminals petrified by the head of Medusa. When a thief ignores this warning and tries to rob him, the museum gains a new statue.
Credits
- Pencils: Alfonso Greene
- Inks: Alfonso Greene
- Script: Jack Oleck
Story Notes
Oleck script per Martin O'Hearn: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2021/06/strange-tales-by-jack-oleck.html
Uncork It... If You Dare!
Storyline
A meek man is left a bottle of gas that changes personalities. Instead of using it to become more daring, he uses it on UN diplomats. The gas has unexpected effects, but in the end he uses all of it to avert war, though no one knows the sacrifice he made.
Credits
- Script: Carl Wessler
- Pencils: Howard O'Donnell
- Inks: Howard O'Donnell
- Letters: Ben Oda
Story Notes
Letters: Probably not [Artie] Simek, if one compares his late 1950s work across the Marvel line. Ben Oda seems to be a better guess.
The Drowning Man!
Storyline
A cafe owner comes across Atlanteans exiling some of their criminals. The guards save him from drowning and he is offered citizenship.
Credits
- Pencils: Christopher Rule
- Inks: Christopher Rule
- Letters: Morrie Kuramoto
Story Notes
Pencil credit of J. Makowski? and ink credit of Hy Fleishman removed based on information from Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion list.
Flight Number Thirteen!
Storyline
Two criminals hijack an airplane full of strangely emotionless passengers. The airplane is piloted remotely into the parallel world that the passengers came from, where the air will drain the pilots' emotions.
Credits
- Script: Carl Wessler
- Pencils: Ruben Moreira
- Inks: Ruben Moreira
Story Notes
Wessler script per Biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol. 31, No. 2, February 2020.
The Melting Pot
Storyline
A convict creates a melting pot to free himself from jail to steal gold, but the pot melts the gold and leaves him trapped in molten metal.
Credits
- Pencils: John Forte
- Inks: John Forte
- Letters: Joe Letterese
The Free Ride
Storyline
A teenager working at an amusement park to help support his family is kind to a mysterious boy, and finds himself rewarded with a real trip to outer space.
Story Notes
Text story with illustrations. Original title: "Rocket Time."
Too Good to Be True!
Storyline
A young boy imagines that he has a rich uncle who suddenly appears, but when he begins to doubt, the uncle fades away.
Credits
- Pencils: Don Perlin
- Inks: Don Perlin
- Letters: Artie Simek