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Issue Details

Issue #34
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 - "Monster at My Window!"

Characters Paul Marshall
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes This cover art is also the splash page of the lead story.
Reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #29 (August 1974)

7 page story "A Monster at My Window!"

Characters Paul Marshall
Synopsis An alien from another dimension threatens a science fiction writer, but the writer is a hostile alien from a different dimension.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #29 (August 1974)

2 page text story "Masquerade"

Characters Tommy; Kitty Blake; Old King Cole
Synopsis A man with no imagination is invited to a costume party by his girlfriend, but stumbles across real fairy-tale folk instead.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #38 (October 1955)

6 page story "The Strange Fate of the Statue Maker!"

Characters Luther Benedict
Synopsis An inventor accidentally invents a petrification device and decides to use it to turn attractive people into detailed statues. His first victim is so beautiful that he decides to release her, but accidentally petrifies himself.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #30 (October 1974)

5 page story "The Invaders"

Synopsis Aliens from a dry desert world park their invasion fleet on a large expanse of the ocean thinking it to be a solid surface whereupon the ships sink like stones.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Reprinted in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #5 (August 1974)

5 page story "Dance, You Fool"

Characters Carlos Carter
Synopsis An unsuccessful dancer overhears the old man in the room next to him saying that his old pair of dancing shoes can make anyone a great dancer. He steals the shoes from the old man, but finds that he can never stop dancing.
Genre occult
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Notes Narrated by the rooming house where the protagonist lives.
Reprinted in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #12 (September 1974)