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Issue Details

Issue #90
Published March 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.

Cover Details - "The Carbon Copy Man!"

Characters Thor; Carbon-Copy Man [Zano]
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Reprinted in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #8 (May 1967) [1/4 page]; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #18 (1991); in Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (2001) [black and white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003); in Mighty Thor Omnibus, The (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 (December 2010)

13 page Thor story "Trapped By the Carbon-Copy Man!"

Characters Thor [Donald Blake]; Carbon-Copy Man [Zano] (introduction); Jane Foster; War Lord Ugarth; Mayor Harris; Donald Blake; Odin (cameo)
Synopsis The heir to the throne of a race of shape-shifting aliens leads an attack on Earth as his rite of passage. The aliens replace officials in New York and disrupt the government, but Thor discovers their plan and defeats them.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Pencils Al Hartley
Inks Al Hartley
Letters Terry Szenics
Notes The Carbon-Copy Man next appears in X-Factor (Marvel, 1986 series) #32 (September 1988).
Reprinted in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #8 (May 1967); in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #18 (1991); in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #3 (May 11, 1971) [as "Thor intrappolato di Carbon!", Italian translation]; in Essential Thor (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (2001) [black and white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003); in Mighty Thor Omnibus, The (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 (December 2010)

1 page text story "Mystery Mansion"

Characters Sam Catlett; Caspar; Ben Rump; Bill Rump
Synopsis A local millionaire secludes himself from his old bowling buddies as he becomes wealthier, but they discover that he misses them so much that he has invented a robotic bowling alley.
Genre science fiction
Letters typeset
Notes The first page of this story is printed between the pages of the Thor story, while the second page is printed between the two back-up stories. The last page is split with the statement of ownership.
Reprinted from Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #45 (January 1956)

5 page story "The Midnight Caller!"

Characters Hans; Anna
Synopsis In a communist bloc country a fugitive seeks shelter from an elderly couple who grant it to him. The next day they find their shack has been transplanted outside of the iron curtain and repaired to look as new. They regard the event as impossible but their guest says he was merely repaying the kindness shown to a stranger and is revealed to be an angel who was traversing the communist-occupied country for an unknown reason and then he ascends back to heaven.
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Letters Artie Simek

Half page statement of ownership "Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 and June 11, 1960 (74 Stat. 208)"

Synopsis Average sales per issue October 1961–September 1962 (issues #76–86, despite monthly cover dates): 132,113.
Letters typeset
Notes This shares the last page of "Mystery Mansion".

5 page story "I Am A Robot!"

Synopsis A criminal steals an advanced robot and uses it to rob a bank, but when he orders it to guard the door of his hideout an error in wording traps him inside permanently.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Pencils Joe Sinnott
Inks Joe Sinnott
Letters Terry Szenics
Notes Narrated in the first person by the robot.