Strange Tales 1951 #106 - 4.5 - $30.00

• First app: Acrobat

The Acrobat tricks the Human Torch into helping him rob a bank before double crossing him. The Torch chases and captures the thief with the help of the Fantastic Four.

A tomboyish girl tries out cooking to appease her mother, but accidentally cooks a witch's brew, totally inappropriate for a fairy like her.

A teller of tall tales becomes the butt of some ribbing when he tries to tell his fellow painters that he has acquired some magic paints. When the cable of the scaffold they are working on breaks, the advertising poster the men were painting in comes to life and lowers them to the ground. The amazed painters feel they owe their lives to the magic paint, but the painter is smug in the knowledge that the scaffold never really fell but his paint allowed him to hypnotize his coworkers into believing it did and that they were saved by the poster.

A space expedition is sent to a distant planet when it is suddenly covered with an artificial mist. The team finds gold and takes it, but are transformed into aliens like the inhabitants.

On-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings. Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.

• The Threat of the Torrid Twosome! - Dick Ayers per Henry Kujawa (22 August 2007). Previous indexer credited George Roussos.
• The Threat of the Torrid Twosome - The Acrobat next appears in issue #114 (November 1963). This is the first appearance of Johnny's obstacle training course and the last story in which Johnny worries about having a "secret identity".
• The Recipe - Text story with illustration.
• The Mystery of the Purple Planet! - Script and letters credits by Barry Pearl.