Issue | #63 |
Published | December 1960 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in August 1960. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person unless otherwise specified. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
Characters | Goliath |
Genre | monsters |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Notes | Cover inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors list, December 2008. |
Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #10 (July 1971) |
Characters | Goliath; Mr. Baxter; Charlie |
Synopsis | An advertising man tricks an advance agent of a proposed invasion from Atlantis into returning to Atlantis by building a mannequin even larger than Goliath and threatening to wage war with his people for the surface of Earth. |
Genre | monsters |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Notes | Narrated in the first person. Goliath was re-named "Gigantus" in a reprint, and his home changed from "Atlantis" to "Mu". Goliath/Gigantus next appears in Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #347 (December 1990). Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #10 (July 1971) [retitled "Gigantus! The Monster That...Walked Like a Man!"] |
Characters | Sir Norman Ramsay; Blake |
Synopsis | A snobbish mine owner is captured by subterranean creatures and kept in a zoo until the mine foreman rescues him. The experience teaches him to treat his employees with respect. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Don Heck |
Inks | Don Heck |
Notes | Narrated in the first person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Characters | John Tyler; Mary Tyler; Bobby Tyler |
Synopsis | When a young boy builds a fan to help his family get through a heat wave it brings down the flying saucer that caused the heat. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Don Heck |
Inks | Don Heck |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with illustrations. Art credits from Journey Into Mystery #44 entry. |
Reprinted | from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #44 (March 1957) |
Characters | Timothy Jones; Cathy Jones |
Synopsis | A poor man finds a doll in the field and gives it to his lame daughter. What he doesn't know is that the doll actually moves and talks. When he's gone the doll asks the girl for food as the "doll" is really an alien child that's gone off exploring other planets without his parents' supervision. When his parents do arrive, he asks the father to reward the girl for her kindness and he cures her leg and leaves behind a gold bar. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Reprinted | in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #20 (December 1972) |
Characters | Otto Bruger |
Synopsis | A man wants to build a time machine, but his colleagues say it is impossible. He works in secret and murders one of them to get the equipment that he needs, but when he activates the machine he goes mad and thinks that he has succeeded. |
Genre | horror |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Notes | Narrated in the first person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Reprinted | in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #6 (February 1972) |