Issue | #70 |
Published | July 1961 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in May 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
Characters | Sandman (alien); Steve Bronson; Anne Bronson |
Genre | monsters |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Characters | Sandman (alien) Steve Bronson; Anne Bronson; Bobby Bronson |
Synopsis | A family stumbles across a hostile alien made of sand. The military are helpless, but it is defeated by the family’s bookish son, who uses water to dissolve it and traps it in a bucket. |
Genre | monsters |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Notes | Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two untitled parts (6 pp, 7 pp). Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Reprinted | in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #13 (October 1971) |
Characters | Tony Tipple; Skeets Mulligan; Toodles Murphy |
Synopsis | A meeting with a strange man gives a boy an unusual way of getting a pet bird, talking to birds. |
Genre | occult |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with illustration. |
Reprinted | from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #50 (October 1956) |
Characters | Mr. Jordan; The Devil ? |
Synopsis | A convict is offered freedom and a thousand years of life by a mysterious stranger in return for his name on a contract. He signs, and finds himself freed, and sealed in a rocket flying away from Earth. He feels neither hunger or thirst, so he will live a thousand years alone. |
Genre | occult |
Pencils | Paul Reinman |
Inks | Paul Reinman |
Notes | Narrated in the first person. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Characters | Dralla/Drallas (both names are used) |
Synopsis | An old man prays statue of a local hero for help for the local poor. His prayers are answered, but his neighbours cheat him out of his share of the statue’s gift. The statue comes to life, punishes the villagers and takes the old man to heaven. |
Genre | occult |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Notes | Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Reprinted | in Kull the Destroyer (Marvel, 1973 series) #12 (February 1974) [pp1–2, p3: panels 2, 4–6, p4: panels 2, 4–5, p5, reformatted] |