Issue | #8 |
Published | January 1962 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in September 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
Characters | Lou |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Characters | Lou |
Synopsis | The alien Krill offer the most beautiful woman in the universe to an earthman if he will betray his native planet but finds to his regret that beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Notes | This story is retold in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #47 (November 1963) as "Shock!" drawn by Larry Lieber and in Silver Surfer (Marvel, 1968 series) #2 (October 1968) as a Tales of the Watcher story by Stan Lee and Gene Colan. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Reprinted | in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007) |
Characters | Anton Axel |
Synopsis | A swindler buys a castle with the intention of faking it as a haunted attraction, but then he meets a real ghost and dies of heart failure thus ends up legitimately haunting the castle. |
Genre | occult |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Notes | Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Reprinted | in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007) |
Characters | Edward Morgo |
Synopsis | A hypnotist replaces a movie theater's film real with a film of his performance intending to put the audience in a trance while he gets up and relieves them of their valuables. He's a better hypnotist than he thought as he succeeds in hypnotizing himself. |
Genre | occult |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Notes | Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. This story is a retelling of "Beware the Eyes of Igor!" drawn by Paul Reinman, from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #11 (September 1960). |
Reprinted | in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007) |
Characters | Tom Bobkins; Tommy Bobkins, Jr.; Tommy Bobkins III; Mary Bobkins |
Synopsis | A child and his mother take a vacation in time visiting the spot where an ancestor lives. He mistakenly leaves his hi-tech toy yo-yo behind when he returns to the future and it is found and played with for a while by his father-to-be. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Notes | Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Reprinted | in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007) |
Synopsis | Advertises stories in next issue. |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Notes | Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Synopsis | An alien ambassador lands on Earth and, because of its monstrous appearance, is driven away. It drops a note written in English before fleeing welcoming Earth to the brotherhood of planets and offering to abolish war, disease and poverty as benefits of membership in the galactic order. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Notes | Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Reprinted | in Marvel Tales Annual (Marvel, 1964 series) #2 (1965); in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007) |