Issue | #11 |
Published | April 1962 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in January 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
Characters | Zogg |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee (signed) |
Pencils | Steve Ditko (signed) |
Inks | Steve Ditko (signed) |
Reprinted | in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007) |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Reprinted | in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007) |
Characters | Zogg |
Synopsis | Alien invaders send a shapeshifting scout to disguise himself as one of Earth's dominant lifeform, but he mistakenly takes the form of a mosquito and is swatted. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Notes | Third place in the voting for best story in this issue, according to issue #13 (June 1962). |
Reprinted | in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007) |
Characters | Rico |
Synopsis | Jupiter's courts are thought soft, but their convicts are actually imprisoned for life within an illusion of freedom. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Notes | Set in 2061. |
Reprinted | in X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #89 (August 1974); in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007) |
Synopsis | A rocket is built which travels faster than light in order to probe the edge of the visible universe, but the volunteer pilot de-ages to infancy during the trip, curing him of his terminal disease. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Notes | Runner up for best story according to the letters page in issue #13 (June 1962). Job number from the Atlas Tales website. |
Reprinted | in Supernatural Thrillers (Marvel, 1972 series) #9 (October 1974); in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007) |
Characters | Hugo Bogg; Ice-Monster |
Synopsis | A thief tries to use the legend of a local ice monster to recover his loot, but the legend is true. |
Genre | occult |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Reprinted | in Giant-Size Man-Thing (Marvel, 1974 series) #1 (August 1974); in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007) |
Notes | Advertises letters page in next issue. |
Reprinted | in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007) |
Characters | Jimmy; Emma |
Synopsis | A reverse ghost story that leads the reader to believe that a young man in the civil war has been slain and returns to his waiting parents in the form of a ghost when the last panel reveals that the young man is still within the land of the living and the waiting parents are ghosts who were killed during artillery shelling. |
Genre | occult |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Notes | Voted best story in this issue by the readers according to the letters page of issue #13 (June 1962). |
Reprinted | in Marvel Visionaries: Stan Lee (Marvel, 2005 series) #[nn] (2005); in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007) |