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Journey Into Unknown Worlds 50
Atlas Tales
Title Profile
Curated Atlas tales, timelines, and cover art notes.
Issue Information
- Cover Date
- October 1956
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia Publisher
- Western Fiction Publishing Co., Inc.
- Cover Titles
- Cyclops!
- Cover Credits
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Bill Everett pencils and inks signed
- Contributions
-
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Cover Creator Credit
Issue Overview
Journey Into Unknown Worlds #50 was published by Western Fiction Publishing Co., Inc. in October 1956. It is part of the Journey Into Unknown Worlds series, which ran from September 1950 to August 1957.
Cover credits include Bill Everett.
Atlas Tales indexes 7 stories for this issue, including "The Fog!." Indexed story credits include Paul Reinman and Herb Familton, among others. The current cover scan may need replacement.
Stories
The Fog!
Credits
Paul Reinman pencils and inks signed
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Notes: Features Bethlem Royal Hospital ("Bedlam") in London, the world's oldest psychiatric hospital, and its Keeper.
I Entered the Forbidden Land!
Credits
Herb Familton pencils and inks signed
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Notes: Features the "legendary" Tibetan land of Shangi-La, which first appeared in James Hilton's 1933 novel, Lost Horizon.
Perhaps what was meant was Shambhala, a legendary land in Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
When the City Trembled
Stranger than Fiction!
Credits
John Forte pencils signed
Bird Talk
Quarantine
The Cyclops
Credits
Jack Davis pencils and inks signed
Contributors:
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Notes: A WWII destroyer is torpedoed in the Mediterranean; one boatload of survivors, including Capt. Niles Ulysses Barret,
come ashore on an island where they recapitulate the adventure of Odysseus and his crew with Polyphemus the
Cyclops, as related in Book 9 of Homer's Odyssey.
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