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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published August 1974
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 36
Editing Roy Thomas

Cover Details - "The Thing in Cell 13!"

Pencils John Romita? Larry Lieber?
Inks John Romita? Al Milgrom?
Notes Pencils: Originally Romita, Lieber credit by Nick Caputo, 2005-01-08. Inks: Originally Romita, Milgrom credit by Nick Caputo, 2005-01-08. (Per Sandell ed.)

5 page story "The Thing In Cell 13"

Characters Hans Vogez
Synopsis A corrupt police chief uses frivolous fines to fund a giant useless prison in order to increase his own prestige. He imprisons a passerby for no reason, but is shocked to find that he is the leader of a group of aliens who are in such a rush to leave that they take the whole prison when they cannot open his cell, leaving the chief disgraced and humbled.
Genre horror
Script Stan Lee ?
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Editing Stan Lee (original editor)
Reprinted from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #81 (February 1961) [originally titled "The Thing in the Cell!"]

5 page story "Greed"

Genre science fiction
Pencils Pete Tumlinson
Inks Pete Tumlinson
Reprinted from Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #36 (December 1954)

5 page story "I, the Robot"

Characters I: The Human Robot (next in WHAT IF? (I) #9
Genre science fiction
Pencils John Romita
Inks John Romita
Reprinted From Menace (Marvel, 1953 series) #11

5 page story "The Invaders"

Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Editing Stan Lee (original editor)
Reprinted from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #34