A coverless Zone? But those are the best part!

But, this is an older one, so we won't look a gift horse in the mouth. From 1964, the Twilight Zone #6, cover by George Wilson if you find it! This was cover-dated February, but hit the stands November 7, 1963; while the original series was still on the air, just a day before the first airing of "The Old Man in the Cave."

The opening story is closer to "King Nine Will Not Return", though: "Captives of the Mirage," written by Dick Wood, pencils by George Tuska, inks by Don Heck. (Probably. There weren't credits, so this is researchers' best guess.) In WWII, a B-17 crash lands in the desert: as the plane goes down, the pilot Oakie seems to have a trance, where he senses a safe landing spot, possibly courtesy of the "Amulet of Arkan" he picked up in Cairo. Still, the bomber crew lost most of their water in the crash. With the amulet pointing north, they follow it, until at the very end of endurance, they find a desert town...complete with force field? Oakie manages to push through it, and he and his men are saved, feted with a feast and a gorgeous dancing girl, who warns him to "beware the mighty one." The head villager gets weirdly grabby with Oakie's amulet, but also seems to strongly resemble the figure on it. Sure enough, that's Arkan himself, and he had saved some Nazis for his muscle; but Oakie is able to use the amulet's magic powers against them. When he starts to go overboard, his co-pilot has to pop him one to snap him out of it.

Oakie gets his crew ready to leave, with the Nazis as prisoner, and taking the girl with him; but before they leave a dying beggar asks him to take a message. Oakie thinks the amulet would save him, but the beggar would have to wear it for a minute; and it's Arkan under a mask! Arkan had been trapped in the mirage for centuries for his crimes, and now could leave, with Oakie and his crew trapped. It goes great, up until Arkan ages centuries in an instant, and dies trying to push his way back into the mirage. Oakie and all are then able to leave, and he tosses the amulet back to the girl, since she couldn't come with him.

"The Night People of London" is a short detective story: on a foggy London night, a robber is foiled by a passerby, who seems to navigate the fog effortlessly. I'm not sure this one is based on historical fact, but it might be. (Written by Dick Wood, pencils by Mike Sekowsky, inks by Mike Peppe.)

The last story, "The Last Sixty Seconds" features not one, but three ventriloquist dummies, predating "Caesar and Me" by months! A ventriloquist is driven to suicide by his dummies, for the crimes of trying to marry into money, and killing a caretaker in a jewel robbery. As he sinks into the Seine, though, he realizes his puppet's breath had fogged the mirror while yelling at him: a rival act with a midget had plotted against him. But, did he figure it out too late, or will he still be able to avenge himself? (Written by Dick Wood, pencils by Mike Sekowsky, inks by Mike Peppe.)