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Issue Details

Issue #13
Published October 1971
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 52
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Tragg! He Who Stalks the Subway!"

Characters Tragg
Genre monsters
Pencils Marie Severin
Inks Frank Giacoia
Notes Art credits from Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors List, 7 January 2005.

13 page story "The Sandman Cometh!"

Characters "Sandman"; Steve Bronson; Anne Bronson; Bobby Bronson
Synopsis A family stumbles across a hostile alien made of sand. The military are helpless, but it is defeated by the family’s bookish son, who uses water to dissolve it and traps it in a bucket.
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Editing Stan Lee (original story)
Notes Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two untitled parts (6 pp, 7 pp).
Reprinted from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #70 (July 1961)

6 page story "I Dared Enter the Haunted Forest!"

Characters Darius Zorn; man in black
Synopsis A bigoted rich man buys a cursed forest, unconcerned with the misfortunes that befall the village. The forest's keeper takes him to another dimension, explaining that he was looking for a man who no one would miss to display in the alien zoo.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Editing Stan Lee (original story)
Notes Narrated in the first person.
Reprinted from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #61 (October 1960)

6 page story "It Fell From the Flying Saucer!"

Synopsis An artist finds an alien pencil that will make whatever he draws real, but his selfish use of it makes the aliens take it back.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Editing Stan Lee (original story)
Reprinted from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #31 (May 1962)

6 page story "The Thing From the Hidden Swamp"

Characters Mary Brown; "The Thing from the Hidden Swamp" (only referred to as such in title)
Synopsis A plain girl helps a stranded alien, and is made beautiful as a reward.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Editing Stan Lee (original story)
Reprinted from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #30 (April 1962)

6 page story "In the Shadow of Tragg -- He Who Walks Beneath the Earth!"

Characters Tragg; David Arnstead
Synopsis Reporter David Arnstead investigates the shut-down of a New York City subway line and finds Tragg, a subterranean monster that kills anything human it encounters.
Genre monsters
Script Gerry Conway
Pencils Syd Shores
Inks Syd Shores
Letters Sam Rosen
Notes New story in the style of the earlier Lee/Kirby/Ditko monster tales.
Reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #33 (January 1975)