Issue | #28 |
Published | April 1962 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in January 1962 (January 9 according to Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website, January 16 according to Bob Bailey). This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. |
Characters | Captain of the Stone Men; Harry Dawes; Titan; Herman; Bruno Brugg |
Genre | monsters; science fiction |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010) |
Characters | John Cartwright; Titan |
Synopsis | John Cartwright, an auto executive, pretends to betray the human race to the invaders from Atlantis. |
Genre | monsters |
Script | Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot) |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Russ Heath |
Notes | Script and synopsis added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.) |
Reprinted | in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #7 (February 1967); in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #12 (October 1975); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010) |
Characters | Marvin Kale; Paula Kale |
Synopsis | When a husband goes shopping he finds a new cleaning fluid that makes anything better than new, even him. |
Genre | occult |
Pencils | Joe Maneely |
Inks | Joe Maneely |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with illustration. |
Reprinted | from Strange Tales of the Unusual (Marvel, 1955 series) #5 (August 1956) |
Characters | Harry Dawes; Captain of the Stone Men |
Synopsis | A fugitive hides on Easter Island and finds a scroll that awakens the stone heads. They turn out to be aliens, and take him with them as a zoo specimen. |
Genre | monsters |
Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
Pencils | Jack Kirby (signed) |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Notes | The last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Kirby. Script and synopsis added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.) |
Reprinted | in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #11 (July 1974); in Incroyable Hulk, L' (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #43 (February 1975) [as "Revenu d'entre les morts!", French translation]; in Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #16 (September 1975); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010) |
Characters | The Great Gregory; Herman |
Synopsis | Ventriloquist the Great Gregory and his wooden puppet Herman are both wooden aliens from Uranus! |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
Pencils | Paul Reinman (signed) |
Inks | Joe Sinnott (uncredited) |
Notes | Script and synopsis added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.) |
Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010) |
Characters | Bruno Brugg |
Synopsis | A man escapes from a prison planet only to mistake a native creature on another world for a rocket ship and ends up devoured. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee (signed) |
Pencils | Steve Ditko (signed) |
Inks | Steve Ditko (signed) |
Notes | The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko. Script added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.) |
Reprinted | in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #4 (June 1974); in Incroyable Hulk, L' (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #35 (June 1974) [as "Le secret de la planète noire", French translation]; in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010) |