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Issue Details

Issue #38
Published February 1963
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in November 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "The Teen-Ager Who Ruled the World!"

Characters Bill Turner
Genre occult
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Jack Kirby
Notes Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 August 2006).

11 page story "The Teen-Ager Who Ruled the World!"

Characters Bill Turner; Miss Parker
Synopsis An arrogant teen-ager finds a genie's lamp and tries to make the world perfect, but finds that all his wishes have unexpected results.
Genre occult
Pencils Jack Davis
Inks Jack Davis

7 page story "We Can't All Be Human!"

Characters Henry Mathews
Synopsis Seemingly friendly aliens arrive on Earth, seeking refuge from pirates, but a philosophy student figures out that the first visitors are the pirates, and disguised themselves to appear pleasant to humans.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Letters Ray Holloway
Reprinted in Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #16 (September 1975)

2 page text story "Blueprint for Victory"

Characters LtC. Cam Westover; Maj. Franks; Cpt. Bill Trayne; Gen. von Kretz
Synopsis A cunning spy infiltrates German HQ with a phoney blueprint as bait and paralyzes communications before a major US assault.
Genre war
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Marines in Battle (Marvel, 1954 series) #6 (June 1955)

5 page story "The Man In The Mirror!"

Characters Silas Haggle; J.J. Jones; Smedley
Synopsis A millionaire buys an enchanted mirror that allows him to wish any person he dislikes to be trapped inside of it. He wishes dozens of people into the mirror until he is contacted by agents of the IRS who wish to audit his books. He briefly considers wishing them into the mirror, but realizes that the government would just send more, so he decides to wish that no one will ever bother him again. He gets his wish, as he finds that all the people who were trapped in the mirror have been released and now he is its sole prisoner.
Genre occult
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko