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Issue Details

Issue #30
Published October 1974
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 36
Editing Roy Thomas ?

Cover Details - "Diablo -- The Demon From the Fifth Dimension!"

Characters Diablo
Genre monsters
Pencils Larry Lieber
Inks Frank Giacoia ?
Notes Art credits from Nick Caputo, via the GCD Errors List, & January 2005.

7 page story "I Saw Diablo! The Demon from the Fifth Dimension!"

Characters Diablo
Synopsis An extradimensional smoke monster invades the Earth. It could have destroyed humanity, but an adventurer tricks it by blowing out the smoke from a lighter, making it think humans can destroy it.
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Editing Stan Lee (original story)
Notes Narrated in the first person. In a later, as yet unidentified story, the protagonist of this story was revealed (retconned) to be Ulysses Bloodstone.
Reprinted from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #9 (May 1960)

6 page story "The Strange Fate of the Statue Maker!"

Characters Luther Benedict
Synopsis An inventor accidentally invents a petrification device and decides to use it to turn attractive people into detailed statues. His first victim is so beautiful that he decides to release her, but accidentally petrifies himself.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Editing Stan Lee (original story)
Reprinted from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #34 (August 1962)

4 page story "Only a Beast!"

Synopsis A bed-ridden old man hates those who will inherit his money so he establishes hypnotic control of his dimwitted caretaker to have him do away with them.
Genre horror
Pencils Al Eadeh
Inks Al Eadeh
Editing Stan Lee (original story)
Notes Reprint is inaccurately credited to Mystic #6. Correct reprint credit and penciler credit from atlastales.com
Reprinted from Menace (Marvel, 1953 series) #11 (May 1954)

3 page story "The Little Men"

Synopsis An old man creates wooden statues that Leprechauns collect.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Sol Brodsky
Inks Sol Brodsky
Editing Stan Lee (original story)
Reprinted from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #42 (April 1956)