Issue | #81 |
Published | June 1962 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in April 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
Characters | R.O.E. (Ruler of Earth) |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | George Roussos ? |
Notes | Cover inker suggested by Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors list, December 2008. Original indexer did not credit an inker. |
Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #25 (November 1973) |
Characters | R.O.E. (Ruler of Earth) |
Synopsis | In the near future of 1990, humanity has created a computer, named R.O.E. (Ruler of Earth), to settle disputes for it. A handful of communists attempt to re-program the computer to serve their aims, but the computer is incapable of any wrongdoing. Only man, the computer says, has the capacity to be evil. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Jack Kirby (signed) |
Inks | Dick Ayers (signed) |
Notes | The second, fourth and sixth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series). |
Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #25 (November 1973) |
Characters | Tommy Miller; Mr. Miller; Mrs. Miller; Wish |
Synopsis | A sick boy takes comfort from a stray dog that grants wishes. |
Genre | occult |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with illustration. On the 6th and 24th interior pages. |
Reprinted | from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #36 (October 1955) |
Characters | Tommy; Tommy's dad |
Synopsis | Tommy's father takes him to the zoo, but Tommy is only interested in the knights and dragons in his book. Tommy's father passes through a mist at the zoo and emerges in Camelot, where he slays a dragon. When he returns to the present, he recognizes his own face in Tommy's book. |
Genre | fantasy |
Pencils | Jack Kirby (signed) |
Inks | Dick Ayers (signed) |
Notes | Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. The second and fourth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series). |
Characters | Kunga |
Synopsis | Two hunters investigate reports of a gigantic gorilla, but when they confront it, they discover that the gorilla isn't from Earth at all, and that some times force is not the solution to every problem. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Gene Colan |
Inks | Gene Colan |
Notes | Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. The second and fourth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series). |
Characters | Nick Nash; "Tightwad" Ted; Tina Torrid |
Synopsis | Cartoonist Nick Nash uses his comic strip to take his revenge on people, but in the end gets an ironic and surreal comeuppance. |
Genre | horror |
Script | Stan Lee (signed) |
Pencils | Steve Ditko (signed) |
Inks | Steve Ditko (signed) |
Notes | The second and fourth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series); the last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series). |