| Issue | #107 |
| Published | April 1963 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in January 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Characters | Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Sub-Mariner [Namor McKenzie] |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Sol Brodsky |
| Notes | Pays tribute to the various Torch/Sub-Mariner battles of the early 1940's! |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #9 (July 1967) [stamp size]; in Essential Human Torch (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003) [black & white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
| Characters | Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Sub-Mariner [Namor McKenzie]; Thing [Ben Grimm] (cameo); Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards] (cameo); Invisible Girl [Sue Storm] (cameo) |
| Synopsis | The Human Torch goes looking for Sub-Mariner in order to beat him and win more respect. He traps Sub-Mariner beneath the ocean floor and returns to the surface. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
| Pencils | Dick Ayers |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Colors | Stan Goldberg ? |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Notes | Sub-Mariner last appears in Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #9 (December 1963), and next appears in Fantastic Four Annual (Marvel, 1963 series) #1 (1963). This is the first Sub-Mariner story of the 1960s not drawn by Jack Kirby. Sub-Mariner exhibits the powers of a puffer fish and an electric eel, never seen again after this story! |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #9 (July 1967); in Human Torch, The (Marvel, 1974 series) #7 (September 1975); in Essential Human Torch (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003) [black & white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006); in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #9 (27 July, 1971) [as "Faccia a faccia con il principe Namor, il potente Sub Mariner", Italian translation] |
| Characters | Bill Jordan |
| Synopsis | A mysterious salesman offers a product that can do anything, but his customer decides that his ordinary contentment is better than the risk of the unknown. |
| Genre | occult |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | The first page of this story is printed between the pages of the Human Torch story, while the second page is printed between "Secret Weapon!" and "The Treasure of Planetoid 12!". The last page is split with the statement of ownership. Info by Barry Pearl. |
| Reprinted | from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #30 (January 1956) |
| Characters | Fedor Zelinki |
| Synopsis | A Soviet spy steals a gas intended to make the US leadership invulnerable, and uses it on the Soviet leaders. They find that it is a trap and the gas shrinks them to the size of insects. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
| Pencils | Larry Lieber |
| Inks | Sol Brodsky |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Notes | Inks and letters credits by Barry Pearl; originally listed Larry Lieber (inks). |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | This shares the last page of "The Universal Gadget". Average circulation per issue published October 1961–September 1962 (issues #93–103, despite monthly cover dates): 136,637. |
| Characters | Charlie Nast; Sam |
| Synopsis | In the year 2100 a criminal hijacks a spaceship to be the first man to claim the treasure of Planetoid 12. When he gets there, he finds nothing but water and mud. He thinks that it might be oil or something valuable, but after he drinks it he knows that it is merely water. The pilot that he forced along at gunpoint thinks he knows where the treasure is, but the criminal refuses to believe there is a treasure on Planetoid 12 at all until he reverts back into an infant. The pilot has realized the treasure is the fountain of youth. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Reprinted | in Vault Of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #22 (October 1975) |