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Issue Details

Issue #87
Published August 1961
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in May 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Some information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers, Dr. Michael J. Vassallo, and others via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "The Return of Grogg!"

Characters Grogg
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #23 (June 1973)

13 page story "The Return of...Grogg!"

Characters Miklos Koslov; Ivan Grotsky; Grogg
Synopsis Koslov is sent back to Russia as a spy, and discovers that the dragon Grogg is still on the loose. He lures Grogg into a Soviet rocket and launches it on its mission to Mars, knowing that if the Soviets ever travel to Mars they will find an enraged dragon.
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Grogg" (7 pp). Grogg last appeared in issue #83 (April 1961); his next published appearance is in Fantastic Four/Iron Man: Big in Japan (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (January 2005), while his next chronological appearance is in Marvel Monsters: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005).
Reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #23 (June 1973)

2 page text story "Peril on Paper"

Characters Jon Randall; Hannes Bache
Synopsis An artist alters a matter transmitter to create images out of the human imagination, but more than just the image of the imagined monster is created.
Genre science fiction
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #15 (December 1952)

5 page story "The Lighthouse From Nowhere!"

Synopsis A lighthouse appears by a village, but their teacher feels they shouldn’t use it unearned and destroys it. They build a new one, never knowing that the first was a beacon for an alien invasion, now aborted.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Reprinted in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #24 (July 1973)

5 page story "The Macabre Mirror!"

Characters Carlotta
Synopsis A greedy duke taxes his people into poverty. When he ignores a gypsy's warnings and tries to seize her ancient mirror he finds himself imprisoned within it forever, freeing his subjects.
Genre occult
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #23 (June 1973)