Issue | #92 |
Published | January 1962 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in September 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Some information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #23 (September 1973) [as "The Monster Waits for Me!"] |
Synopsis | An old man in a boarding house tells a woman that is being hunted by a shape-shifting alien. He dies of a heart attack and the woman is relieved, since she is the alien and will not have to kill him. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot) |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Notes | Narrated in the first person. The last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Kirby. Script added by Bob Bailey, 2 September 2005 (Per Sandell ed.) |
Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #23 (September 1973) [as "The Monster Hunts for Me!"] |
Characters | George Ridley; Monroe Marks; Dr. Willard Seldin; Harry Landau |
Synopsis | A teacher frantically tries to convince people that he saw aliens, but it turns out that they are friendly and make him their ambassador. |
Genre | science fiction |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with illustration. |
Reprinted | from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #12 (June 1953) |
Characters | Roderick Kane |
Synopsis | A man from the future travels back to the 1960s to conquer the world with a shrinking gas. When he tests the gas on himself he becomes too small to release the antidote and shrinks to nothingness. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot) |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Notes | The last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Kirby. Script added by Bob Bailey, 2 September 2005 (Per Sandell ed.) |
Synopsis | A villager sneaks into a nearby monastery to find the secret of eternal life. He finds the secret, but in order to live forever he must stay motionless in one room until someone comes to take his place. |
Genre | occult |
Script | Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot) |
Pencils | Don Heck |
Inks | Don Heck |
Notes | Script added by Bob Bailey, 2 September 2005 (Per Sandell ed.) |
Synopsis | This story shows an audience watching a film of alien invasion. When the film ends, the audience leaves the theatre and looks up at the Earth from their home on Mars. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Notes | The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko. |
Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #23 (September 1973) |