Issue | #99 |
Published | August 1962 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in May 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 | Dick Ayers |
Characters | Philip Morgan; Mrs. Morgan |
Synopsis | Humanoid robots are banned, but their inventor keeps one in secret, and aliens try to turn it against humanity. It resists and they are forced to flee, but the robot’s inventor thinks that it disobeyed him by leaving hiding, not knowing that it saved humanity. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Notes | Set after 2090. |
Reprinted | in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #11 (August 1966); in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #16 (April 1972); in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #10 (June 1975) |
Characters | Joe; Gus; Angelo |
Synopsis | A struggling band takes on a poor but talented young harp player who turns out to be a young angel studying on Earth. |
Genre | occult |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with illustration. |
Reprinted | from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #39 (October 1955) |
Characters | John Peterson; Premier Zorkon |
Synopsis | A US scientist defects to the USSR and builds a large dome to protect their leaders from retaliation, allowing a massive strike on the US. The dome is really a pod to launch them into space. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Notes | The last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series). |
Characters | Joe Phelps; Anita Rogers; Bob |
Synopsis | A sound engineer tries to kill a girl who spurned him using sound waves. When they fail, he is confused, and, is killed by the waves which didn't affect the secretly hard-of-hearing girl. |
Genre | horror |
Pencils | Don Heck |
Inks | Don Heck |
Reprinted | in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #10 (June 1975) |
Characters | Karl Kargon |
Synopsis | In the year 2050 a prisoner reads about the invention of a time machine and so breaks jail to return to the past to rub out the one witness to his crime. However, as he attempts to assault the man, he realizes that he has been rendered intangible like a ghost so as to be unable to effect any change in the course of events. |
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). |
Reprinted | in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #12 (October 1975) |