Monday Madness MYSTICAL TALES "Man Who Saw Too Much!"

Here's one of those stories that make you scratch your head and ask...

..."what were they smoking/drinking/ingesting whan they created this?"

What's the "speed of time"?

How would it alter the composition of a piece of metal never designed to be played as a musical instrument by a human to allow it to be played. much less to transport the player through time?

Perhaps it's just as well we don't know who scripted this weird story!

The Grand Comics Database attributes Ed Winiarski as the sole artist for this never-reprinted story from Atlas' Mystical Tales #1 (1956), but there are clear aspects of long-time Atlas-Marvel artist Werner Roth's style in there as well.

Did he re-draw panels or did he pencil the entire story with Winarski just inking it?

So many questions, so few answers...

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Marvel Masterworks

Atlas-Era Journey into Mystery

Volume 1

Reading Room WORLD OF SUSPENSE "Forbidden!"

Here's another never-reprinted tale from the Atlas Comics vault...

...illustrated by longtime comics book artist Ed Winiarski and scripted by a writer whose name is lost to the sands of time, though it may be Ed himself!

This never-reprinted story from Atlas' World of Suspense #8 (1957) is one of Winiarski's last stories in comics before either retiring or switching to other media like advertising after a 20-year career in comics!

Trivia: Ed is one of the creators cited in Stan Lee's book (really a booklet) Secrets of the Comics as shown HERE!

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Ten-Cent Plague

Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America

Monday Madness MARVEL TALES "Last Man Alive!"

This lovely cover by Bill Everett is sorta true...

...but it's also sorta deceiving!
Read about Freddie Kruger (yep, that's his name)...

So he wasn't the last man alive...nor was he even on Earth!

Why the disconnect between the cover for Atlas' Marvel Tales #153 (1956) by Bill Everett and the story illustrated by Ed Winiarski?

Two possibilities!

1) the cover was conceived and drawn before the story was written, and the tale, done later on, was modified from the basic premise!

2) Editor Stan Lee (who probably didn't write the story) failed to convey the concept of the already-done story properly to the cover artist, and it was too late in the production process to correct it!

Trivia: It's not unusual for a one-shot character's name to became famous for another reason later on!

This character has no relation to the villain of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise!

Conversely, when Raymond Burr's character in the first Godzilla film, reporter "Steve Martin" was resurrected 29 years later in Godzilla 1985, a certain comedian by the same name had become extremely famous!

Despite that, Burr's character retained the name in the sequel...

BTW, the story's author is unknown and neither the cover nor the tale has ever been reprinted.

This is its' first appearance in 67 years!

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Ten-Cent Plague

Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America

Friday Fun ASTONISHING "Eve of Halloween!"

Since "Halloween" means "All Hallows Eve"...

...is the "Eve of Halloween" the night before Halloween?

This too cute for words story from Atlas' Astonishing #47 (1956) doesn't answer the "eve of Halloween"question.

But artist Ed Winiarski and an unknown writer do present a Bewitched-style tale of a modern-day witch and her daughter which, oddly, doesn't show anything of the husband/father!

Was he a warlock or a mortal?

We'll never know the answer...

Reading Room: SECRETS BEHIND THE COMICS by STAN LEE...Secrets 4-6!

Let's rejoin comics legend Stan (the Man) Lee as he reveals...

...in this incredibly HTF book from 1948!

All this has been mere prologue.

Tomorrow we get to the stuff you're dying to see...so don't miss it, true believers!

BTW, you probably don't recognize most of the characters Lee mentions.

Timely/Atlas/Marvel hasn't published most of them in decades.

Note: the blonde model/actress Hedy Devine, (aka "Hedy de Vine"), is not the Hedy who became part of the team of Patsy & Hedy, who had their own book through the mid-60s.

That was brunette Hedy Wolfe, who was a teenager, like her "frenemy" Patsy Walker.
Both of them eventually became part of the Marvel multiverse.