Issue | #6 |
Published | February 1972 |
Frequency | quarterly |
Cover Price | 0.25 USD |
Pages | 52 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Gil Kane |
Inks | Frank Giacoia |
Characters | Victor Avery; Bill Cooper |
Synopsis | When handsome scientist playboy Victor Avery is rejected by a girl he turns himself into a monster to wreak revenge on her fiancé only to become his own victim. |
Genre | monsters |
Script | Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ? |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Notes | Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Script and synopsis added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.) |
Reprinted | from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #79 (April 1962) |
Characters | Frank Miller; Dr. John Redfield; Laddie; Pharaoh |
Synopsis | A man is convinced that dogs are secretly planning to take over the world. His friend the psychiatrist convinces him otherwise by showing that his dog cannot understand complex questions, even under hypnosis. Neither suspects that the dog has been hypnotized by the cat. |
Genre | horror |
Pencils | Don Heck |
Inks | Don Heck |
Notes | Narrated in the first person. |
Reprinted | from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #62 (November 1960) |
Characters | Otto Bruger |
Synopsis | A man thinks he has traveled through time with the "time machine" he built but the shock he receives from it when he throws the switch unhinges his mind and when the men with the white coats come to take him away he perceives them as barbarians of an earlier age. |
Genre | horror |
Script | Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ? |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Reprinted | from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #63 (December 1960) |
Characters | Eric Krane |
Synopsis | In the year 2050 Eric Krane is a spaceman who collects butterflies only to find himself trapped on planet where butterflies collect men. |
Genre | horror |
Script | Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ? |
Pencils | Joe Sinnott |
Inks | Joe Sinnott |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Script and synopsis added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.) |
Reprinted | from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #79 (April 1962) |
Characters | Happy Harper |
Synopsis | A practical joker suffers the ultimate practical joke - after his death. |
Genre | horror |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Reprinted | from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #29 (March 1962) |
Characters | Hiram Drudd |
Synopsis | An imprisoned criminal scientist pretends to make a medical device which is in fact a time machine. He sends his mind into the past to inhabit the body of 'the richest man' but is imprisoned once more, as the Count of Monte Cristo. |
Genre | horror |
Script | Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ? |
Pencils | Paul Reinman |
Inks | Paul Reinman |
Notes | Narrated in the first person. |
Reprinted | from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #66 (March 1961) |
Characters | Walter Krugg; one of the Fates |
Synopsis | The Fates make a wager over whether humans will ever understand that they cannot escape them. One of them tells a jewel thief that he will be punished, but he defies fate and flees the country, thinking that since the US is in World War II he will never be found and punished in Hiroshima. |
Genre | occult |
Script | Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ? |
Pencils | Don Heck |
Inks | Don Heck |
Notes | This story is a retelling of "Mister Black", drawn by Gene Colan in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #93 (February 1962) with an American protaganist instead of a Japanese one. |
Reprinted | from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #33 (July 1962) |