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Issue Details

Issue #13
Published June 1962
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in March 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "At the Stroke of Midnight!"

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
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)

5 page story "The Unsuspecting"

Characters Bobby
Synopsis Shape-shifting aliens invade Earth, taking the form of TV sets in order to influence people's thinking.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes The second page includes an advertisement for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series). This story is retold in Silver Surfer (Marvel, 1968 series) #6 (June 1969) as a Tales of the Watcher story by Stan Lee and Syd Shores. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko (Marvel, 2005 series) #[nn] (2005); in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)

5 page story "Great Zeus"

Characters Zeus
Synopsis Zeus decides to leave Mt. Olympus and return to Earth, but when he arrives, far from his lightning bolts intimidating mortals, they find him a source of entertainment and want to book him as an act. Exasperated, Zeus leaves the big city and returns to Mt. Olympus.
Genre occult
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes The third page includes an advertisement for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series). 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 Little Gypsy Tea Room"

Characters Bruno the Burglar; a gypsy
Synopsis A criminal forces a gypsy to hide him from the police, but gets more than he bargained for when she does help him.
Genre occult
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes The second page includes an advertisement for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series). Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Supernatural Thrillers (Marvel, 1972 series) #8 (August 1974); in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)

5 page story "The Ultimate Weapon"

Synopsis The western powers launch an empty globe over Moscow that intimidates the communist leaders into disarming because they fear that it is a bomb.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes Set in 1970. The fourth page includes an advertisement for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series). 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 Amazing Adult Fantasy Fan Page letters page

Script Stan Lee (replies)
Letters typeset
Notes Includes a letter from a female reader in England. "The Amazing Scoreboard", a ranking of the stories in a previous issue according to reader feedback, is introduced. From issue #11 (April 1962), the readers voted for: #1-"Where Walks the Ghost?" #2-"The Secret of the Universe!" #3-In Human Form!".
Reprinted in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)

5 page story "At the Stroke of Midnight!"

Synopsis Giant undersea creatures attack New York, but they find the streets deserted due to a civil defense drill. They are attacked by a giant, and conclude that humans are actually larger then they are. The next morning the Stature of Liberty has skinned knuckles.
Genre occult
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes The third page includes an advertisement for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series). Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)