Issue | #8 |
Published | April 1967 |
Cover Price | 0.25 USD |
Editing | Roy Thomas |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Bill Everett; Jack Kirby (CA); Paul Reinman; Don Heck |
Inks | BIll Everett, Frank Giacoia (CA), Paul Reinman, Don Heck |
Colors | Stan Goldberg |
Genre | superhero |
Colors | Stan Goldberg |
Reprinted | from Marvel Mystery Comics (Marvel, 1939 series) #9 (July 1940) |
Characters | Droom (introduction, origin); Dr. Henry Gordon; Arnold |
Synopsis | A scientist invents a growth serum intended to solve world hunger by enlarging vegetables. A tiny exotic lizard is accidentally soaked by the liquid and grows into a giant lizard that rampages across the country. They blast it into outer space and it drifts through space frozen, eventually landing on Earth to become the first dinosaur. |
Genre | monsters |
Pencils | Don Heck |
Inks | Don Heck |
Colors | Stan Goldberg |
Notes | Narrated in the first person. A revised version of Droom appears next in Fantastic Four / Iron Man: Big in Japan (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005). |
Reprinted | from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #9 (May 1960) |
Characters | Lucius Farnsworth; Eric |
Synopsis | An eccentric beekeeper reveals to a thief that he is a mutant with special powers. He shrinks the thief and frightens him with the attacks of the bees that are now larger than he is, but leaves him wondering if any of it was real. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Colors | Stan Goldberg |
Reprinted | from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #32 (August 1961) |
Synopsis | The gorgons of myth were aliens and send an agent to modern Earth preceding an invasion. She cannot turn the first men she encounters to stone, but since she doesn't know that they're blind the invasion is cancelled. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
Pencils | Larry Lieber |
Inks | Paul Reinman |
Colors | Stan Goldberg |
Letters | Artie Simek |
Reprinted | from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #96 (September 1963) |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Joe Simon, Jack Kirby |
Pencils | Joe Simon; Jack Kirby |
Inks | Joe Simon, Jack Kirby |
Colors | Stan Goldberg |
Letters | Howard Ferguson |
Reprinted | from Captain America Comics (Marvel, 1941 series) #7 (October 1941) |