| Issue | #97 |
| Published | June 1962 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in March 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Some information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Timely/Atlas discussion list. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Characters | Rackozo Roor; Johnn; Aletha |
| Synopsis | Humans are forced underground by the Sun’s death. An approaching planet alarms many, but humans vote against destroying it: saving Earth as the new planet, really a sun, thaws the dying world. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | The third, fourth and sixth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series). |
| Reprinted | in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #22 (May 1977) [altered to become a Dr. Druid story] |
| Characters | Colin; Mr. Plum; Gertrude |
| Synopsis | A dull teacher earns accolades by accidentally helping capture a Martian criminal. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Joe Maneely |
| Inks | Joe Maneely |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. |
| Reprinted | from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #52 (October 1956) |
| Characters | Dan Cooper |
| Synopsis | A man is transported by a mist to the 16th century, where he is locked up as a madman. He escapes and is transported with the asylum keeper back to the present, where the keeper is taken for mad! |
| Genre | occult |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | The second and fourth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series), the last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series). |
| Reprinted | in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #20 (January 1977) |
| Characters | Linda Brown; May Brown; Ben Brown |
| Synopsis | A girl in a wheelchair living with her aunt and uncle begins sleepwalking. In her sleep, she wheels herself underwater. The couple are sad...but they knew their mermaid ward would one day go home. |
| Genre | occult |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Notes | The third page includes an advertisement for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series), the last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko. This story is a retelling of "The Sea Waits for Me!", drawn by Dick Ayers, from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #43 (March 1956). |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #83 (September 1977); in Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko (Marvel, 2005 series) #[nn] |
| Characters | Joshua Carstairs; Derek Weems |
| Synopsis | A painter breaks into a room which he thinks is the source of a famous artist's inspiration. It contains supernatural beings that model for the artist, who take the intruder as their own model. |
| Genre | occult |
| Pencils | Gene Colan |
| Inks | Gene Colan |
| Notes | The second and fourth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series). |
| Reprinted | in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #21 (March 1977) [altered to become a Dr. Druid story] |