Issue | #32 |
Published | August 1962 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in May 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
Characters | Eric |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Notes | Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 August 2006). |
Characters | Lucius Farnsworth; Eric |
Synopsis | An eccentric beekeeper reveals to a thief that he is a mutant with special powers. He shrinks the thief and frightens him with the attacks of the bees that are now larger than he is, but leaves him wondering if any of it was real. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Reprinted | in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #8 (March 1967); in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #34 (March 1975) |
Characters | Lester Ford; Marie Ford; Lady Luck |
Synopsis | A businessman doesn’t believe in luck, but several beneficial encounters with an old lady change his mind. |
Genre | occult |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with illustration. |
Reprinted | from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #136 (July 1955) |
Characters | Boris Grumm; Sazzik |
Synopsis | A TV producer of violent sensationalist drama finds a book on a sorcerer that he thinks will bring in a big profit televised. He makes the mistake of reading the printed avocation spell out loud and the spirit of the long dead mage appears and casts him into limbo. |
Genre | occult |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Reprinted | in Dead of Night (Marvel, 1973 series) #9 (April 1975) |
Characters | Silas Cragg; X-22 |
Synopsis | A scientist's robot goes bad, and it is so advanced that it cannot be distinguished from a human by any instruments. Ony the reaction of a dog tells the police which of several suspects is the robot. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Don Heck |
Inks | Don Heck |
Synopsis | The communists build a super computer space-based weapons platform and issue it commands to strike targets from where it sits in orbit. They build the machine too well, however, for it rejects the order as immoral and states any such further order will result in the weapons being trained upon those who issue it. The satellite assumes a guardian role over planet Earth. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |