Issue | #61 |
Published | October 1960 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in June 1960. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person unless otherwise specified. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
Characters | Gomdulla |
Genre | monsters |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | George Klein |
Notes | Cover inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors list, December 2008. |
Reprinted | in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #12 (August 1971) |
Characters | Gomdulla; Paul |
Synopsis | An ancient alien robot disguised as an Egyptian mummy-god is reactivated, and forms a cult until it is foiled by a policeman and his own high priest. |
Genre | monsters |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Reprinted | in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #12 (August 1971) |
Characters | Lucille Swart; Arnold Swart; Rogo the Robot; Frank Swart; Jimmy Swart; Officer Murphy; John Winters |
Synopsis | An engineer presents his wife with a robot to do her housework. He believes he is playing a prank, but the robot is real. |
Genre | science fiction |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with illustration. |
Reprinted | from Adventures Into Weird Worlds (Marvel, 1952 series) #19 (June 1953) |
Characters | Darius Zorn |
Synopsis | A bigoted rich man buys a cursed forest, unconcerned with the misfortunes that befall the village. The forest's keeper takes him to another dimension, explaining that he was looking for a man who no one would miss to display in the alien zoo. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Don Heck |
Inks | Don Heck |
Notes | 'Zorn' seems to have been a stock character of Don Heck. This one bears a physical resemblance to Roderic Zorn in the previous issue, but the similarity ends there. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Reprinted | In Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #13 (October 1971) |
Synopsis | A thief forces a shop owner to hide him in a back room, but finds himself opening doors without rest for years. |
Genre | occult |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Notes | Narrated in the third person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #17 (September 1972) |
Characters | M'Gumbu |
Synopsis | An African tribe ignores their witch-doctor's admonishments against raiding, believing that his vow never to harm another makes him helpless. When they try to kill him he shrinks the entire tribe to protect others. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Paul Reinman |
Inks | Paul Reinman |
Notes | Narrated in the third person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Reprinted | in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #7 (May 1972) |