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Issue Details

Issue #27
Published November 1973
Frequency 8 times a year
Cover Price 0.20 USD
Pages 36
Editing Roy Thomas ?

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

Characters Sserpo
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers?; George Klein ?
Notes Nick Caputo suggests George Klein as the inker, via the GCD Errors List, 7 January 2005.
Reprinted from Amazing Adventures (Marvel, 1961 series) #6 (November 1961)

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
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Editing Stan Lee (original story)
Reprinted from Amazing Adventures (Marvel, 1961 series) #6 (November 1961)

6 page story "Earth Will Be Lost Tonight!"

Characters Steve Miller; "Don Russell"; Nan Miller
Synopsis An agent signs a mysterious singer who is an instant hit. The agent finds that the singer is an alien whose next record will help his people conquer Earth. He escapes, and manufactures a scandal to ruin the alien’s record sales.
Genre horror; science fiction
Script Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot)
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Editing Stan Lee (original story)
Notes Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
Reprinted from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #93 (February 1962)