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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published February 1994
Cover Price 1.25 USD
Pages 36
Editing Mort Todd

Cover Details

Genre horror
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko

5 page story "I Live Again!"

Characters Evil [only called "The Monster from Bald Mountain" in a caption]
Synopsis The animated statue rises up from where it fell in the last story and decides to go to America so that it can conquer the world. When it arrives it hides in a building that is actually a rocket that is shot into space.
Genre monsters
Pencils Steve Ditko (signed)
Inks Steve Ditko (signed)
Editing Stan Lee (original editor)
Notes Continued from issue #1.
Reprinted from Tales To Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #8 (March 1960) [monster originally called "The Thing from Bald Mountain"]

3 page story "The Stooge"

Genre Horror
Pencils Martin Thall [as Martin Rose]
Inks Martin Thall [as Martin Rose]
Notes pseudonym info supplied by Craig Delich 9/05
Reprinted from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #6 (March-April 1953)

1 page illustration "I asked Ditko..."

Script Steve Ditko
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Letters Steve Ditko ?
Notes New Ditko illo as part of letter column.

13 page story "Zzutak The Thing That Shouldn't Exist"

Characters Frank Johnson (introduction); Yucoya-Tzin (introduction, not named); Zzutak (introduction, origin); Zzutak's enemy (introduction, origin)
Synopsis An American comic book artist is given magic paints which make whatever is painted with them real. He is compelled to go to Mexico and paint a monster as planned by the Aztec priest who gave him the paints. When he is ordered to paint more monsters, the artist uses his willpower to make his next monster fight the first, causing the temple to collapse on both monsters, giving the priest amnesia and ending his threat.
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Steve Ditko
Editing Stan Lee (original editor)
Notes Narrated in the first person. Frank Johnson, Yucoya-Tzin, Zzutak and Zzutak's enemy all next appear in Fantastic Four Unlimited (Marvel, 1993 series) #7 (September 1994).
Reprinted from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #88 (September 1961)

1 page illustration

Genre horror
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko