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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published September 1961
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands on June 1, 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from the Library of Congress. Additional credits and data from Joseph William Marek (May 24, 2003).

Cover Details - "I Am X"

Characters Robot X
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Dick Ayers (signed)
Reprinted in Amazing Adventures Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)

13 page story "I Am Robot X"

Characters Robot X (introduction, origin); Prof. Jonathan Wilkes; Charles J. Wentworth
Synopsis The creation of sentient robots provokes a demagogic campaign revealed to be the work of Martian spies.
Genre monsters
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Dick Ayers (signed)
Notes This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Robot X!" (7 pp). Robot X later appears in Doc Samson (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (April 2006), but this version does not seem the same as the version in this story. Writer credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.
Reprinted in Amazing Adventures Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)

2 page text story "The Pact"

Characters Henry Conrad; Frances Conrad; the Devil
Synopsis A historian writing about the trial and execution of his ancestor for witchcraft interviews the only remaining party concerned in the case: the Devil.
Genre occult
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely
Letters typeset
Reprinted from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #2 (August 1952)

5 page story "Who or What Was...the Bootblack?"

Characters Simon Sledge
Synopsis Simon Sledge is a cruel and heartless businessman who delights in making others suffer. On the way to the biggest deal of his life, one that will eliminate the last of his competition, he stops for a shoeshine. Suddenly his feet are moving away from his destination, taking him far from the deal that will give him a monopoly in his field. He glances back at the bootblack who is revealed as an angel, and who says that when human laws can’t touch someone like Sledge, there are always higher laws.
Genre occult
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko (signed)
Inks Steve Ditko (signed)
Notes Writer credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.
Reprinted in Amazing Adventures Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)

5 page Doctor Droom story "What Lurks Within?"

Characters Dr. Anthony Droom [later retroactively renamed Doctor Druid]
Synopsis Doctor Droom frightens off alien invaders by convincing them that a construction site’s wrecking ball is a life-form.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Dick Ayers (signed)
Notes Also carries the blurb: "Starring Doctor Droom!" The Doctor Droom feature skips the next issue. Writer credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.
Reprinted in Amazing Adventures Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)