Issue | #12 |
Published | November 1971 |
Frequency | bi-monthly |
Cover Price | 0.25 USD |
Pages | 52 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | George Klein |
Reprinted | from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #57 (March 1960) [relettered] |
Characters | Orogo; Albert Carstairs |
Synopsis | An alien robot arrives to hypnotically enslave the people of Earth, but is stopped when it cannot hypnotize one old man, a blind man. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Don Heck |
Inks | Don Heck |
Reprinted | from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #57 (March 1960) |
Characters | Henry Salt; Martha Salt |
Synopsis | An inventor with a nagging wife must prevent giant roots resulting from a witch doctor's curse from overrunning Africa. He then turns to inventing a device which will harness the power of his wife's voice. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Reprinted | From Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #57 (March 1960). |
Characters | Mr. Mason; Grosko |
Synopsis | An American engineer ignores the warnings of locals and builds a road through a Gypsy-inhabited wood. On of the gypsies causes his steam shovel to attack him until he agrees to stop building. |
Genre | horror |
Pencils | Paul Reinman |
Inks | Paul Reinman |
Notes | Narrated in the first person. |
Reprinted | from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #57 (March 1960) |
Characters | Captain Kragg; Kumbus |
Synopsis | A cowardly space pilot flees a battle until his spaceship runs out of power and he crashes into a bog on an Earth-like planet. He finds an explorer who is going to prove the planet is round and takes his place, hoping for fame and fortune, but this time it turns out that the world really is flat. |
Genre | horror |
Script | Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ? |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Letters | Art Simek |
Reprinted | from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #67 (April 1961) |
Characters | Stephen Dwane; Kusoom |
Synopsis | A man looking through an abandoned house find notes in an alien language. They tell of an alien shapeshifter disguised as a human to undermine Earth before an invasion, and are accompanied by a photograph of the alien's human form, Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee?; Larry Lieber? |
Pencils | Paul Reinman (signed) |
Inks | Paul Reinman (signed) |
Letters | Artie Simek |
Reprinted | from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #31 (May 1962) |
Characters | Quogg |
Synopsis | A fugitive hides in an enclosure said to contain a horrible monster, and realizes too late that the monster appeared to be an ordinary hut. |
Genre | occult |
Script | Stan Lee (signed) |
Pencils | Steve Ditko (signed) |
Inks | Steve Ditko (signed) |
Letters | Artie Simek |
Reprinted | from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #30 (April 1962) |
Characters | Mr. Jordan |
Synopsis | A criminal steals a strange clock from an old man, but finds that it is cursed. He cannot put it down without pain, but he ages rapidly as he holds it. He believes that returning the clock will cure him, leaving him to choose between rapid death, pain or jail. |
Genre | horror |
Script | Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ? |
Pencils | Don Heck |
Inks | Don Heck |
Notes | Narrated in the first person. |
Reprinted | from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #67 (April 1961) |