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Issue Details

Issue #96
Published May 1962
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in February 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 Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "I Dream of Doom!"

Characters Frank Atwell
Genre occult
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers ?
Notes Pencil and inks credits from Frank Lovece on 20 December 2004; previously credited to Steve Ditko.

7 page story "I Dream of Doom!"

Characters Frank Atwell
Synopsis Frank Atwell can't sleep because he has nightmares in which a monster tries to catch him. His doctor sedates him and he sleeps so heavily that the monster catches him before he can wake up. He discovers his dream world is the real world, and he is its king, while the mundane world was a dream, or was it?
Genre occult
Script Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot)
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Script by Bob Bailey, 2008-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.)
Reprinted in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #7 (May 1972)

1 page text story "The Universal Gadget"

Characters Bill Jordan
Synopsis A mysterious salesman offers a product that can do anything, but his customer decides that his ordinary contentment is better than the risk of the unknown.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Notes The first page of this story is printed between the pages of "I Dream of Doom!", while the second page is printed between "Beware the Future Man!" and "The Clock-Maker!". The last page is split with the statement of ownership.
Reprinted from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #30 (January 1955)

6 page story "The Impossible Tunnel!"

Characters Robert Saunders; Omor
Synopsis Robert Saunders wants to build a sub-oceanic tunnel from North America to Europe. He discovers a gentle underground civilization and he destroys the tunnel to protect them from the upper world.
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. Bill Everett inker credit changed based on information from the Atlas/Timely discussion list. Script added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.)
Reprinted in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #16 (March 1972); in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #36 (July 1975)

5 page story "Beware the Future Man!"

Characters Elsa Peterson
Synopsis A gangster tries to escape the police by forcing an old man to take him to another state. The old man turns out to be from the future and is looking for a male specimen to put on display.
Genre science fiction
Script Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot)
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Notes Script and synopsis by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.)
Reprinted in Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #15 (July 1975)

Half page statement of ownership "Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 and June 11, 1960 (74 Stat. 208)"

Letters typeset
Notes This shares the last page of "The Universal Gadget". Average circulation of each issue published October 1960–September 1961 (issues #82–92, despite monthly cover dates): 191,261.

5 page story "The Clock-Maker!"

Synopsis The Clock-Maker cannot stand anything that's not perfect. When his bookkeeper makes a mistake it sounds like he has killed him. The local police arrive to discover the bookkeeper was a clockwork man and the Clock-Maker was repairing him.
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. Synopsis by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.)
Reprinted in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #11 (August 1975)