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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published October 1961
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in July 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "Monsteroso"

Characters Monsteroso
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby; Steve Ditko (foreground figures)
Inks Dick Ayers; Steve Ditko (foreground figures)
Notes Art credits from Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors List, 7 January 2005.
Reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #28 (June 1974); in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)

13 page story "The Escape of...Monsteroso!"

Characters Monsteroso; Phil; Ethel
Synopsis A circus owner finds a dead alien in Africa and brings it to the United States for a museum. The alien turns out to be alive, and then goes on a rampage. It turns out that it is only a confused child, and its parents arrive to retrieve it.
Genre monsters
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Monsteroso" (7 pp). Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Writer credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.
Reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #28 (June 1974); in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)

2 page text story "T.V. or...?"

Characters Bob Dixon
Synopsis A TV repairman learns to see past electronics when he finds little people in a set.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #145 (April 1956) [originally titled "The Test"]; in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)

5 page story "The Watchers!"

Characters Henry Fletcher; Tom Smith
Synopsis A brilliant scientist believes that human ingenuity is guided by unseen advanced creatures, not knowing that his janitor is one such creature.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Writer credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.
Reprinted in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)

5 page story "The Joker!"

Characters Horace
Synopsis A practical joker thinks that aliens are his victims playing a joke on him, but they are real aliens and take him to an offworld zoo.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Writer credit from Georgew Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.
Reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #29 (August 1974); in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)