Marvel Tales #145

Three short anthology teasers fill this April 1956 Atlas cover, illustrated by Sol Brodsky, each promising a different flavor of suspense. On the left, a determined man strides urgently out of a glowing, machine-filled corridor while shadowy figures loom behind him — a snapshot of "The Machine That Ruled!" On the right, a pair of panels tease "Philander's Last Performance!" (featuring an oversized shoe crashing down on a rain-soaked city street) and "No Turning Back!" (a lone figure in purple standing at a moonlit precipice, watched by a group of onlookers). For fans of mid-1950s Atlas anthology comics, this dime-priced issue delivers the kind of tightly wound, imaginative storytelling — from writer Carl Wessler and artist Paul Reinman — that made Marvel Tales a reliable treat.