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Issue Details

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.

Cover Details - "Goliath! The Monster That Walks Like a Man!"

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)

7 page story "Goliath! The Monster That...Walked Like a Man!"

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!"]

6 page story "I Was Trapped by the Mole Men!"

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.

2 page text story "The Heat's On"

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)

5 page story "The Dangerous Doll"

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)

5 page story "I Took a Journey Into Fear!"

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)