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Issue Details

Issue #8
Published January 1962
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in September 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "The Coming of the Krills!"

Characters Lou
Genre science fiction
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko

1 page Amazing Adult Fantasy Contents credits

Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko

5 page story "The Coming of the Krills"

Characters Lou
Synopsis The alien Krill offer the most beautiful woman in the universe to an earthman if he will betray his native planet but finds to his regret that beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes This story is retold in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #47 (November 1963) as "Shock!" drawn by Larry Lieber and in Silver Surfer (Marvel, 1968 series) #2 (October 1968) as a Tales of the Watcher story by Stan Lee and Gene Colan. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)

5 page story "Everyone Likes a...Ghost Story"

Characters Anton Axel
Synopsis A swindler buys a castle with the intention of faking it as a haunted attraction, but then he meets a real ghost and dies of heart failure thus ends up legitimately haunting the castle.
Genre occult
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)

3 page story "The Eyes of Edward Morgo"

Characters Edward Morgo
Synopsis A hypnotist replaces a movie theater's film real with a film of his performance intending to put the audience in a trance while he gets up and relieves them of their valuables. He's a better hypnotist than he thought as he succeeds in hypnotizing himself.
Genre occult
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. This story is a retelling of "Beware the Eyes of Igor!" drawn by Paul Reinman, from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #11 (September 1960).
Reprinted in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)

5 page story "The Yo-Yo"

Characters Tom Bobkins; Tommy Bobkins, Jr.; Tommy Bobkins III; Mary Bobkins
Synopsis A child and his mother take a vacation in time visiting the spot where an ancestor lives. He mistakenly leaves his hi-tech toy yo-yo behind when he returns to the future and it is found and played with for a while by his father-to-be.
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.
Reprinted in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)

1 page Coming Attractions promo (ad from the publisher)

Synopsis Advertises stories in next issue.
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

5 page story "A Monster Among Us"

Synopsis An alien ambassador lands on Earth and, because of its monstrous appearance, is driven away. It drops a note written in English before fleeing welcoming Earth to the brotherhood of planets and offering to abolish war, disease and poverty as benefits of membership in the galactic order.
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.
Reprinted in Marvel Tales Annual (Marvel, 1964 series) #2 (1965); in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)