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Issue Details

Issue #92
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. Some information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "The Thing Waits for Me!"

Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #23 (September 1973) [as "The Monster Waits for Me!"]

7 page story "The Thing Hunts for Me!"

Synopsis An old man in a boarding house tells a woman that is being hunted by a shape-shifting alien. He dies of a heart attack and the woman is relieved, since she is the alien and will not have to kill him.
Genre science fiction
Script Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot)
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Narrated in the first person. The last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Kirby. Script added by Bob Bailey, 2 September 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
Reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #23 (September 1973) [as "The Monster Hunts for Me!"]

2 page text story "The Flying Saucer That Was"

Characters George Ridley; Monroe Marks; Dr. Willard Seldin; Harry Landau
Synopsis A teacher frantically tries to convince people that he saw aliens, but it turns out that they are friendly and make him their ambassador.
Genre science fiction
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #12 (June 1953)

6 page story "The Man Who Shrunk the World!"

Characters Roderick Kane
Synopsis A man from the future travels back to the 1960s to conquer the world with a shrinking gas. When he tests the gas on himself he becomes too small to release the antidote and shrinks to nothingness.
Genre science fiction
Script Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot)
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes The last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Kirby. Script added by Bob Bailey, 2 September 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)

5 page story "Somewhere Sits a Lama"

Synopsis A villager sneaks into a nearby monastery to find the secret of eternal life. He finds the secret, but in order to live forever he must stay motionless in one room until someone comes to take his place.
Genre occult
Script Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot)
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Notes Script added by Bob Bailey, 2 September 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)

5 page story "Inside the Flying Saucer!"

Synopsis This story shows an audience watching a film of alien invasion. When the film ends, the audience leaves the theatre and looks up at the Earth from their home on Mars.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.
Reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #23 (September 1973)