Issue | #65 |
Published | February 1961 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in October 1960. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
Characters | "The Brute That Walks" [Howard Avery] |
Genre | monsters |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Reprinted | in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #1 (July 1970) [with alterations] |
Characters | Howard Avery; Sally Barton |
Synopsis | A man invents a growth serum to deal with his insecurities, but it turns him into a monster. He is driven mad by the serum and terrifies the city until it wears off. He gets the credit for destroying the monster and destroys his notes to prevent a repeat. |
Genre | monsters |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Notes | Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part 1 (6 pp) and part 2—"The Brute That Walks!" (7 pp) without seperate titles. In Marvel Monsters: From the Files of Ulysses Bloodstone and the Monster Hunters (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (November 2005) this story is said to take place in Chicago. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Reprinted | in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #1 (July 1970) [p1, p2: panels 1, 4–5, p3: panels 1, 5–6, p4: panels 3–8, pp5–13, reformatted] |
Characters | Ned Carter; Mr. Jonas |
Synopsis | A disgruntled janitor's obsessive effort to create a sweeping robot costs him his job and ends in failure, but only because he sees no use for a perpetual motion machine. |
Genre | science fiction |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with illustration. |
Reprinted | from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #32 (June 1955) |
Characters | Zenocian #7; Model Vog robot |
Synopsis | A man and a robot are stranded and the man tries to sacrifice himself to save the robot, but they are both saved, and we find that the man was a humanoid robot, and the robot a robot-looking alien. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Notes | Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Reprinted | in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #1 (July 1970); in Monster Masterworks (Marvel, 1989 series) #[nn] (1989) |
Characters | Kragoo |
Synopsis | An alien soldier is given immense strength and the ability to possess the body of one victim in order to hypnotize the population of their target planet. One is sent to Earth, but mistakenly possesses a statue and is trapped. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Don Heck |
Inks | Don Heck |
Notes | Narrated in the second person. This story is a retelling of "Trapped on Earth!" from issue #52 (May 1959). In this story the human-looking aliens are exposed to gamma radiation to transform them into large deformed warriors, and was published more than a year before the introduction of the Hulk. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Reprinted | in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #1 (July 1970) |