Issue | #25 |
Published | November 1973 |
Frequency | 7 times a year |
Cover Price | 0.20 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Roy Thomas |
Characters | R.O.E. (Ruler of Earth) |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | George Roussos ? |
Notes | Inking credit suggestion from Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors list, December 2008. Formerly credited to Dick Ayers (original indexer) and Paul Reinman (Caputo). |
Reprinted | from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #81 (June 1962) |
Characters | R.O.E. (Ruler of Earth) |
Synopsis | In the near future of 1990, humanity has created a computer, named R.O.E. (Ruler of Earth), to settle disputes for it. A handful of communists attempt to re-program the computer to serve their aims, but the computer is incapable of any wrongdoing. Only man, the computer says, has the capacity to be evil. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee?; Larry Lieber? |
Pencils | Jack Kirby (signed) |
Inks | Dick Ayers (signed) |
Editing | Stan Lee (original editor) |
Reprinted | from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #81 (June 1962) |
Synopsis | Peasants call an old woman a witch, a man gives her the benefit of the doubt, but it turns out the peasants were right. |
Genre | horror |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Russ Heath |
Inks | Russ Heath |
Notes | Lee and Heath credits are added for this reprint. |
Reprinted | from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #10 (July 1952) |
Synopsis | Tiny alien invaders decide to detonate their ultimate bomb thinking that unobserved Earthlings have gone into hiding to avoid their invasion force and end up blowing up an Earth boy's ping pong ball and themselves as they are caught in the aftershocks of the blast. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ? |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Letters | Artie Simek |
Notes | Ditko credit is added for this reprint. |
Reprinted | from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #13 (January 1961) |
Characters | Hans; Katrina; Albert |
Synopsis | A town's mayor threatens to imprison a gypsy fortune-teller who spurned his advances if her prediction that he will be injured by a fall does not come true. He goes to the basement and has himself tied down to prevent this, but realizes too late that a chandelier above him is coming loose. |
Genre | horror |
Pencils | Paul Reinman |
Inks | Paul Reinman |
Editing | Stan Lee (original editor) |
Reprinted | from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #85 (June 1961) |