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Issue Details

Issue #95
Published April 1962
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands on January 4, 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Some information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Timely/Atlas discussion list. Distribution date from Bob Bailey (August 12, 2005)

Cover Details - "The Two-Headed Thing!"

Characters "Two-Headed Thing" [named only in title]; Eddie Kane
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #26 (October 1973)

7 page story "The Two-Headed Thing!"

Characters "Two-Headed Thing" (named only in title); Eddie Kane
Synopsis In a storm, a convict escapes through a hole smashed in the wall. When he is found, he tells a tale of a shape-shifting monster. When the guards scoff, the escapee reveals that HE is the monster, and they are only saved by a lightning strike.
Genre monsters
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Narrated in the first person. Script credited in the reprint to Stan Lee; previous indexer credited Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot). Synopsis added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
Reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #26 (October 1973)

2 page text story "Muscle Man"

Characters Jimmy Binn; Tooloo
Synopsis An ordinary man envies body-builders on the beach, and a strange figure teaches him about the strength of his own mind.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #48 (July 1956)

6 page story "The Monster Escapes!"

Synopsis An alien planning to invade Earth crash lands and tries to find a rocket to escape. Instead, he accidentally conceals himself in an airtight time capsule and suffocates.
Genre science fiction
Script Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot)
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes The alien conveniently wrote his log in English "to study our language". The last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Kirby. Script and synopsis added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
Reprinted In Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #24 (October 1973)

5 page story "The Cave of Shaggdorr!"

Characters Shaggdorr; Bruno Krugg
Synopsis No one had ever returned from a treasure search in the cave of the Shaggdorr on Ursa Centaurius. Bruno Krugg escapes the authorities and heads for the planet to steal the treasure. Little does he know the cave itself is a giant creature.
Genre science fiction
Script Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot)
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Notes Set in 3061. Script and synopsis added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
Reprinted in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #15 (April 1976)

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "The Two Greatest New Fantasy Magazines in the World!"

Pencils Steve Ditko (Amazing Adult Fantasy); Jack Kirby (Fantastic Four)
Inks Steve Ditko (Amazing Adult Fantasy); Sol Brodsky (Fantastic Four)
Notes Advertises Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series) and Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series). Pencils and inks added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)

4 page story "Do Not Panic!"

Synopsis An alien craft arrives over a city and descends. The pilot wears a frightening spacesuit, but since the military do not panic, they do not attack, and when the human pilot removes his helmet he is warmly greeted by the people of Mars.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee (signed)
Pencils Steve Ditko (signed)
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.
Reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #26 (October 1973); in Curse of the Weird (Marvel, 1993 series) #1 (December 1993)