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Issue Details

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.

Cover Details - "This Is...Magnetor!"

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!"]

13 page story "The Wonder of the Ages!!! Magnetor!"

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)

3 page story "Shangri-La"

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)

5 page story "They Met on Mars!"

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)