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Issue Details

Issue #25
Published January 1962
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in September 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "The Death of...Monstrollo!"

Characters Monstrollo
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks George Klein
Notes Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 August 2006).
Reprinted in Marvel Mastwerworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)

7 page story "The Death of Monstrollo"

Characters Charles Hudson; Monstrollo
Synopsis A movie producer's next film is a sci-fi picture featuring a giant robotic monster. Bad press convinces him to abandon the project but just as he's about to disassemble the robot, an alien invasion fleet lands. He sends the robot lumbering towards them and they ineffectively fire their nerve weapons at it. Next, they try gas, which of course has no effect on the machine either. Panicked, they flee to their saucers resolving never to return. People express their sympathy to the movie producer that all that money was spent with nothing to show for it, but he knows better.
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Narrated in the first person.
Reprinted in Marvel Mastwerworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)

2 page text story "The Heat's On"

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 illustrations. The two pages of this story are not printed consecutively.
Reprinted from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #44 (March 1957)

6 page story "The Unseen"

Characters Jason Wilkes
Synopsis A scientist is contacted by a communist agent who offers him a million dollars for research into an invisibility ray. The man's greed makes him accept treason and he succeeds, but he finds that after testing the ray upon himself, he has become intangible as well and has no way of turning on the switch of the antidote ray.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks George Klein
Reprinted in Marvel Mastwerworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)

5 page story "The Hidden Face"

Characters Wogu
Synopsis An alien bigot attempts to preach hate by hiding his face under a hood. When he assaults one of the people he is defaming he flees the police to escape capture. When he attempts to remove the hood, he finds another underneath it. He tries again, and there is still another, always another hood. A policeman shakes his head sadly as he walks away from his cell, the bigot convinced he would never have been captured if not for all these hoods. He continues to remove hood after hood with his hands, but there is nothing there.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes This story is a retelling of "Men in Black" by Stan Lee and John Romita, Sr. from Menace (Marvel, 1953 series) #3 (May 1953). Interestingly, the original and prior tellings were not science fiction stories, and featured an ordinary, human, bigot. The distancing device of making the story a science fiction allegory may be a reflection of growing racial tensions.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)

5 page story "The Enchanted Paint"

Characters Hans Lubnik
Synopsis An untalented painter gains success when a gypsy gives him magic paints, but he becomes obsessed with beauty and abandons his lover. The gypsy casts another spell, making his former love seem beautiful to him.
Genre occult
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)

1 page text story "The Heat's On"

Letters typeset
Notes Continued from sequence 2. Redundant sequence marked for deletion.

2 page story "The Death of Monstrollo"

Genre monster
Pencils Jack Kirby
Notes Continued from sequence 1. Redundant sequence marked for deletion.