Issue | #5 |
Published | March 1971 |
Frequency | bi-monthly |
Cover Price | 0.15 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Characters | Gorgilla |
Genre | monsters |
Script | Stan Lee ? |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Reprinted | from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #24 (October 1961) [originally titled: The Abominable Snowman!] |
Characters | Gorgilla; Scotty; Anne |
Synopsis | Gorgilla stows away on a ship to America to contact the human race, but is met with fear and violence in New York. He stumbles across some communist spies and stops an assassination, but is killed by the military out of fear. |
Genre | monsters |
Script | Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ? |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Notes | Narrated in the first person. Gorgilla last appeared in the story reprinted in (Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #9 (February 1971), and later appears in Marvel Universe (Marvel, 1998 series) and Defenders (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (March 2001). |
Reprinted | from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #18 (April 1961) |
Characters | Sally; Tom |
Synopsis | The first mission to Mercury has a stow-away, the lover of one of the pilots. The captain is angry, but when they arrive on Mercury they find that the natives are hostile, and only the girl's display of love towards the pilot convinces them that the humans have something of value to offer. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ? |
Pencils | Don Heck |
Inks | Don Heck |
Reprinted | from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #24 (October 1961) |
Synopsis | A mysterious janitor tries to improve conditions for the residents of a tenement and then faces the greedy landlord in a final showdown. |
Genre | horror |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Reprinted | from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #24 (October 1961) |