Issue | #38 |
Published | February 1963 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in November 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
Characters | Bill Turner |
Genre | occult |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Jack Kirby |
Notes | Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 August 2006). |
Characters | Bill Turner; Miss Parker |
Synopsis | An arrogant teen-ager finds a genie's lamp and tries to make the world perfect, but finds that all his wishes have unexpected results. |
Genre | occult |
Pencils | Jack Davis |
Inks | Jack Davis |
Characters | Henry Mathews |
Synopsis | Seemingly friendly aliens arrive on Earth, seeking refuge from pirates, but a philosophy student figures out that the first visitors are the pirates, and disguised themselves to appear pleasant to humans. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
Pencils | Don Heck |
Inks | Don Heck |
Letters | Ray Holloway |
Reprinted | in Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #16 (September 1975) |
Characters | LtC. Cam Westover; Maj. Franks; Cpt. Bill Trayne; Gen. von Kretz |
Synopsis | A cunning spy infiltrates German HQ with a phoney blueprint as bait and paralyzes communications before a major US assault. |
Genre | war |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with illustration. |
Reprinted | from Marines in Battle (Marvel, 1954 series) #6 (June 1955) |
Characters | Silas Haggle; J.J. Jones; Smedley |
Synopsis | A millionaire buys an enchanted mirror that allows him to wish any person he dislikes to be trapped inside of it. He wishes dozens of people into the mirror until he is contacted by agents of the IRS who wish to audit his books. He briefly considers wishing them into the mirror, but realizes that the government would just send more, so he decides to wish that no one will ever bother him again. He gets his wish, as he finds that all the people who were trapped in the mirror have been released and now he is its sole prisoner. |
Genre | occult |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |