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Issue Details

Issue #9
Published February 1971
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Gorgilla!"

Characters Gorgilla
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Reprinted from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #12 (October 1960)

7 page story "I Discovered Gorgilla! The Monster of Midnight Mountain!"

Characters Gorgilla; Scotty; Anne; Frank
Synopsis An expedition finds the missing link between apes and humans in Borneo. It is initially hostile, but defends its fellow primates from a dinosaur.
Genre monsters
Script Larry Lieber ?
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes Narrated in the first person. Gorgilla next appears in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #5 (March 1971)
Reprinted from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #12 (October 1960)

6 page story "Desert Scream!"

Synopsis Archaeologist Egon Allov plans to rob the Egyptian pyramid of Neron-Alak of its hidden treasure but he is imprisoned inside it, and releases its long-dead monarch.
Genre horror
Script Allyn Brodsky
Pencils Jack Katz [as Jay Hawk]
Inks Barry Windsor-Smith [as Barry Smith]
Letters Sam Rosen
Reprinted in Giant-Size Chillers (Marvel, 1975 series) #3 (August 1975)

7 page story "Kraggoom! The Creature Who Caught An Astronaut!"

Characters Kraggoom; Derek Wolfington
Synopsis An exiled gaseous alien criminal named Kragoom waits in Earth orbit for the first human astronaut in order to enter his body and possess his mind, planning to return to Earth as a conqueror.
Genre monsters
Script Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot)
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
Reprinted from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #78 (March 1962)