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Issue Details

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.

Cover Details - "The Man in the Bee-Hive!"

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).

7 page story "The Man in the Beehive!"

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)

2 page text story "Lady Luck"

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)

6 page story "Sazzik the Sorcerer"

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)

5 page story "The One Who Isn't Human"

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

5 page story "The Thing in the Sky!"

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