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Issue Details

Issue #21
Published May 1973
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.20 USD
Pages 36
Editing Roy Thomas

Cover Details - "Fin Fang Foom!"

Characters Fin Fang Foom
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Reprinted from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #89 (October 1961)

13 page story "Fin Fang Foom!"

Characters Fin Fang Foom; Chan Liuchow; Chung Liuchow
Synopsis A young historian from Taiwan is scorned by his father for his refusal to join the army, even in the face of an imminent communist invasion. Instead of fighting directly, he crosses to the mainland to awake the dragon Fin Fang Foom. He lures the dragon to the coast to wreck the invasion fleet, and then lures it back to its lair before restoring its mystical slumber.
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Narrated in the first person. Fin Fang Foom next appears in Astonishing Tales (Marvel, 1970 series) #23 (April 1974).
Reprinted from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #89 (October 1961)

4 page story "Haunted!"

Synopsis A ghost scares off potential buyers of a derelict house.
Genre horror
Pencils Vic Carrabotta (signed)
Inks Vic Carrabotta (signed)
Reprinted from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #1 (June 1952)

5 page story "The Clutching Hands"

Synopsis A writer murders another writer to steal his work, but the dead writer's hands continue to make trouble for him. First, by framing him for the murder of his publisher, then by signing a confession to the killing, and finally by throwing the gallow's switch.
Genre horror
Pencils Cal Massey (signed)
Inks Cal Massey (signed)
Reprinted from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #1 (June 1952)