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Issue Details

Issue #35
Published November 1962
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in August 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "The Challenge of Zarkorr?"

Characters Zarkorr; Dave Bartlett
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 August 2006)

7 page story "I Accepted the Deadly Challenge of Zarkorr!"

Characters Dave Bartlett [Zarkorr]
Synopsis A veteran space pilot is forced to retire because of his lack of experience with newer equipment, but an alien visitor gives Earth a challenge that only he can pass. After succeeding, he is appointed to command the space patrol, but the alien visitor was really the pilot in disguise.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes The last page includes an advertisement for Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (1962).

2 page text story "The Radio"

Characters Bill Barton; Mr. Sparks
Synopsis A ham radio enthusiast picks up a genie on one frequency but wastes his three wishes before he knows what's happening.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #133 (April 1955)

6 page story "I Must Enter the Tomb of Tut-Am-Tut!"

Characters Albert Cragg
Synopsis A scientist creates a time machine to travel back to ancient Egypt in order to pose as a magician and find the location of a great treasure. He is trapped in the past when his time machine is buried with the Pharaoh.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck

5 page story "Never Threaten a Witchman!"

Characters Cozo; Hans; Zamoff
Synopsis An untalented bald actor wants to receive the leading parts in plays so he goes to a witchman for a potion that will help him. The witchman tells him that he does have such a potion but does not want to give it to him, because it is too dangerous. The actor is heedless and pulls a gun on him. The witchman relents and gives the actor the potion, but the actor finds that after drinking it he can only find work as a circus freak because his hair grows so quickly.
Genre occult
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko

5 page story "Revolt of the Robots!"

Characters Fate
Synopsis Robots make Earth into a living paradise, but humans grow fearful and oppress them. The robots leave for another planet, where they build and oppress their own robots while Fate laughs.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Notes The last page includes an advertisement for Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (1962).
Reprinted in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #13 (October 1974)