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Issue Details

Issue #6
Published November 1961
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in August 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "Sserpo, the Creature Who Crushed the World!!"

Characters Sserpo
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Nick Caputo suggests George Klein as inker via the GCD Errors List, 7 January 2005.
Reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #27 (November 1973); in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)

13 page story "Sserpo! The Creature Who Crushed the Earth!"

Characters Sserpo; Thomas Burke; Henry Burke; Anne Burke
Synopsis A growth serum is abandoned and eaten by a lizard, which grows big enough to menace the Earth. The world is only saved when a scientist, the great-grandson of the inventor of the serum, contacts aliens on Jupiter, who use their advanced technology to restore the creature to normal.
Genre monsters
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Sserpo" (7 pp). Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Writer credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.
Reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #27 (April 1974); in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)

2 page text story "Muscle Man"

Characters Jimmy Binn; Tooloo
Synopsis An ordinary man envies body-builders on the beach, and a strange figure teaches him about the strength of his own mind.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #48 (July 1956)

5 page story "The Fourth Man"

Characters Ben; Spade; Mr. White
Synopsis Two thugs attempt to mug a kindly old man in the park when a statue comes to his aid.
Genre occult
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Reprinted in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)

5 page Dr. Droom story "Krogg!"

Characters Dr. Anthony Droom [later retroactively renamed Doctor Druid]; Krogg
Synopsis Dr. Droom investigates the disappearance of several houses, and finds that an alien disguised as a scientist is to blame.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Notes Doctor Droom next appears as Doctor Druid in the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1968 series) #210 (April 1977), he had already been renamed in the reprints of these stories. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Writer credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.
Reprinted in Giant-Size Man-Thing #3 (February 1975) [as a Doctor Druid story]; in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #152; in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)