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Issue Details

Issue #10
Published March 1962
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in December 1961 (December 5 according to Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website, December 7 according to Bob Bailey). This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.

Cover Details - "Those Who Change!"

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
Reprinted in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)

5 page story "Those Who Change"

Synopsis Scientists view the ancient past, but though they don’t realize it they reshape history causing humans to evolve from reptiles.
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 Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #1 (February 1966); in Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko (Marvel, 2005 series) #[nn] (2005); in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)

5 page story "The Mark of the Toad"

Characters King John; Prince Charles
Synopsis An evil uncle tries to kill a boy king, but his magic backfires and turns him into a toad.
Genre occult
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Reprinted in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)

3 page story "No Sign of Life"

Characters Ronn
Synopsis Puzzled space explorers are unable to detect any signs of life in an entire galaxy. They set for home frustrated that no colonies can be established there, not realizing that all the planets of that particular galaxy are living beings.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Reprinted in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #28 (March 1974); in Curse of the Weird (Marvel, 1993 series) #2 (January 1994); in Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko (Marvel, 2005 series) #[nn] (2005); in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)

5 page story "Man on a Tightrope"

Characters Flippo Jones; Mr. Barning; Patty Barning
Synopsis A young girl is friends with a tightrope walker past his prime. The man is killed in his last act, but his ghost returns to make his friend well again.
Genre occult
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Reprinted in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)

1 page Coming Attractions story

Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes Advertises stories in next issue. Sequence added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
Reprinted in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)

5 page story "Mister Universe"

Characters Karl Kragg; Joe; Ben Kragg; Unog
Synopsis A conceited jerk wins Mr. Earth and is contacted by aliens who wish him to enter a "Mister Universe" competition. He doesn't stop to ask what the prize is, but arrogantly accepts, figuring he can beat the other contestants even though they are even more bigger and muscle-bound than he is. It turns out the other contestants knew what the prize was and so they let the Earth representative win, as he is then turned into a living statue for all the universe to marvel at forever.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Reprinted in X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #87 (April 1974); in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)