Issue | #4 |
Published | August 1966 |
Frequency | bi-monthly |
Cover Price | 0.25 USD |
Pages | 68 |
Editing | Roy Thomas |
Pencils | Jack Kirby (Captain America figure); Don Heck; Joe Sinnott |
Inks | Jack Kirby (Captain America figure); Don Heck; Joe Sinnott |
Colors | Stan Goldberg |
Notes | Inks originally credited to Frank Giacoia, it was actually inked by Jack Kirby according to Mark Evanier via http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2005_01_07.html#009393 (7 January 2005). |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Joe Simon; Jack Kirby |
Pencils | Joe Simon; Jack Kirby |
Inks | Joe Simon; Jack Kirby |
Colors | Stan Goldberg |
Letters | Howard Ferguson |
Reprinted | from Captain America Comics (Marvel, 1941 series) #4 (June 1941) |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Joe Simon; Jack Kirby |
Pencils | Joe Simon; Jack Kirby |
Inks | Joe Simon; Jack Kirby |
Colors | Stan Goldberg |
Letters | Howard Ferguson |
Reprinted | from Captain America Comics (Marvel, 1941 series) #4 (June 1941) |
Characters | Heinrich Munch; Munch's animated construct [only called "It" in title] |
Synopsis | A bitter scientist builds a monster to destroy his rival, failing in every attempt to animate it until the swamp accidentally gives the construct life. The creature has a conscience and refuses to murder, so its creator uses lies to turn the local people against it. In trying to kill his creation, the scientist is killed himself and another accident transfers the creature's consciousness into the scientist's human body, freeing the creature to live a noble life. |
Genre | monsters |
Pencils | Jack Kirby (signed) |
Inks | Dick Ayers (signed) |
Colors | Stan Goldberg |
Notes | This story is divided into two chapters: an untitled chapter 1 (6 pp) and chapter 2—"It" Lives! (7pp). |
Reprinted | from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #82 (March 1961) |
Characters | Captain William Reynold; Thomas Clark |
Synopsis | Sailors find the "Flying Dutchman" and take the ship's gold, despite the pleas of the ghost crew. They are turned into ghosts to replace that crew, leaving the man who refused the gold unharmed. |
Genre | horror |
Pencils | Dick Ayers (signed) |
Inks | Dick Ayers (signed) |
Colors | Stan Goldberg |
Editing | Stan Lee (original editor) |
Reprinted | from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #98 (July 1962) |
Synopsis | A man meets an extradimensional being in his nightmares. The being tells him that the world he comes from is a paradise, but boring, and offers to switch places. The man agrees, but the traveller wakes up to find that he entered the dreams of a prisoner. |
Genre | horror |
Pencils | Don Heck |
Inks | Don Heck |
Colors | Stan Goldberg |
Notes | Narrated in the first person. |
Reprinted | from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #12 (October 1960) [originally titled "My Nightmare Has No End!"] |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Joe Simon; Jack Kirby |
Pencils | Joe Simon; Jack Kirby |
Inks | Joe Simon; Jack Kirby |
Colors | Stan Goldberg |
Letters | Howard Ferguson |
Reprinted | from Captain America Comics (Marvel, 1941 series) #4 (June 1941) |