| Issue | #108 |
| Published | May 1963 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in February 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]; Thing (image); Invisible Girl (image); Mister Fantastic (image); The Painter [Wilhelm Van Vile] |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Colors | Stan Goldberg ? |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #10 (September 1967) [1/9th page]; 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]; Painter [Wilhelm Van Vile] (introduction); "Scar" Tobin; Scar's Gang [Nick; Sam; Eddie]; Mister Fantastic (image); Invisible Girl (image); Thing (image); Wizard (flashback); Zemu (flashback) |
| Synopsis | A counterfeiter caught by the Human Torch finds magic paints and uses them to escape from prison and strike back at the Torch. The Torch realizes what is happening and uses the magic paints to fool the Painter and defeat him. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot), Robert Bernstein [as R. Berns] (script) |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Letters | Terry Szenics |
| Notes | Kirby draws one of the henchmen in the Iron Man story in this month's Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #41 (May 1963) with the same face as Scar Tobin. |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #10 (September 1967); in Human Torch, The (Marvel, 1974 series) #8 (November 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 (July 27, 1971) [as "Il Pittore dei mille pericoli!", Italian translation] |
| Characters | John Tyler; Mary Tyler; Bobby Tyler |
| Synopsis | When a young boy builds a fan to help his family get through a heat wave it brings down the flying saucer that caused the heat. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Don Heck |
| Inks | Don Heck |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. Artist credit from the entry for Journey Into Mystery #44. |
| Reprinted | from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #44 (March 1957) |
| Characters | Ben |
| Synopsis | An old hermit becomes enraged that the nearby redwood tree will outlive him, but when he dies the tree transforms its friend into an immortal redwood too. |
| Genre | occult |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
| Pencils | Larry Lieber |
| Inks | Sol Brodsky |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #30 (April 1971) |
| Characters | Merlin; King Arthur; Black Knight (animated suit of armor); Sir Mogard |
| Synopsis | A knight of King Arthur's court resents the favor shown Merlin and so challenges him to a battle. Merlin's champion, a black knight, wins the competition. The envious knight still sneers at Merlin and claims he has no true magic powers, but Merlin makes a mystic pass and the empty suit of armor falls in pieces upon the ground. |
| Genre | sword and sorcery |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Letters | Ray Holloway |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #30 (April 1971) |