Issue | #13 |
Published | June 1962 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in March 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
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 | Bobby |
Synopsis | Shape-shifting aliens invade Earth, taking the form of TV sets in order to influence people's thinking. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Notes | The second page includes an advertisement for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series). This story is retold in Silver Surfer (Marvel, 1968 series) #6 (June 1969) as a Tales of the Watcher story by Stan Lee and Syd Shores. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Reprinted | in Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko (Marvel, 2005 series) #[nn] (2005); in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007) |
Characters | Zeus |
Synopsis | Zeus decides to leave Mt. Olympus and return to Earth, but when he arrives, far from his lightning bolts intimidating mortals, they find him a source of entertainment and want to book him as an act. Exasperated, Zeus leaves the big city and returns to Mt. Olympus. |
Genre | occult |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Notes | The third page includes an advertisement for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series). 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 | Bruno the Burglar; a gypsy |
Synopsis | A criminal forces a gypsy to hide him from the police, but gets more than he bargained for when she does help him. |
Genre | occult |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Notes | The second page includes an advertisement for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series). Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Reprinted | in Supernatural Thrillers (Marvel, 1972 series) #8 (August 1974); in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007) |
Synopsis | The western powers launch an empty globe over Moscow that intimidates the communist leaders into disarming because they fear that it is a bomb. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Notes | Set in 1970. The fourth page includes an advertisement for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series). Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Reprinted | in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007) |
Script | Stan Lee (replies) |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Includes a letter from a female reader in England. "The Amazing Scoreboard", a ranking of the stories in a previous issue according to reader feedback, is introduced. From issue #11 (April 1962), the readers voted for: #1-"Where Walks the Ghost?" #2-"The Secret of the Universe!" #3-In Human Form!". |
Reprinted | in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007) |
Synopsis | Giant undersea creatures attack New York, but they find the streets deserted due to a civil defense drill. They are attacked by a giant, and conclude that humans are actually larger then they are. The next morning the Stature of Liberty has skinned knuckles. |
Genre | occult |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Notes | The third page includes an advertisement for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series). Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Reprinted | in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007) |