Issue | #24 |
Published | August 1973 |
Frequency | bi-monthly |
Cover Price | 0.20 USD |
Pages | 40 |
Editing | Roy Thomas ? |
Notes | Issue includes 4 page advertising insert for Mark Jewelers. |
Characters | Magnetor [Hunk Ranken] |
Genre | monsters |
Pencils | Jack Kirby; John Romita (retouch) |
Inks | Dick Ayers; John Romita (retouch) |
Notes | Art credits from Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors List, 7 January 2005. |
Reprinted | from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #84 (May 1961) [originally titled "This Is...Magneto!"] |
Characters | unnamed con man; Magnetor [Hunk Larken] |
Synopsis | A strong but dim man is exploited for profit by a con man and then abandoned, unable to find work except in a freak show. His unusual size is thought to make him the perfect passenger for an experimental space flight, but a strange cloud gives him magnetic powers. Angry at his previous humiliation, he attacks society and runs amok until a special rocket is created to allow him to leave Earth and find somewhere where he can fit in. |
Genre | monsters |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Editing | Stan Lee (original story) |
Notes | Narrated in the first person. Magnetor was originally called Magneto. |
Reprinted | from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #84 (May 1961) |
Synopsis | A man makes it back from Shangri-La only to be informed that the man he spoke with, whom he takes to be mad, actually left for the valley four hundred years ago. |
Genre | occult |
Pencils | Bill Everett |
Inks | Bill Everett |
Editing | Stan Lee (original story) |
Notes | reprint credit from atlastales.com |
Reprinted | from Journey into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #55 (March 1957) |
Synopsis | Two unrecognizable beings land on Mars and fight. One of them destroys the other's ship and escapes, with the two never knowing that they were both human space travelers: one from the United States, one from the Soviet Union. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Editing | Stan Lee (original story) |
Notes | Story has been altered to add references to S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra |
Reprinted | from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #84 (May 1961) |