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. |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |