Issue | #94 |
Published | March 1962 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands on December 12, 1961. 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 Bob Bailey. |
Characters | Pildorr; John Brett |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Characters | John Brett; Pildorr |
Synopsis | Earth sends a pilot to get an important cargo past attacking space pirates. He is caught and thrown into space, his cargo taken. The cargo is a cobalt bomb that destroys the pirates, and the pilot is a robot, so he survives. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot) |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Joe Sinnott |
Notes | Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.) |
Reprinted | in Marvel Visionaries: Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2004 series) #1 (2004) |
Characters | Tommy Miller; Mr. Miller; Mrs. Miller; Wish |
Synopsis | A sick boy takes comfort from a stray dog that grants wishes. |
Genre | occult |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with illustration. |
Reprinted | from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #36 (October 1955) |
Characters | Lucius Farnsworth; George |
Synopsis | A man urges his unambitious gardener to go into business for himself, but his humble diligence saves the world when he snips a radioactive telepathic weed while it rests. |
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, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.) |
Reprinted | in Giant-Size Man-Thing (Marvel, 1974 series) #3 (February 1975); in Monster Menace (Marvel, 1993 series) #2 (January 1994) |
Characters | Joe Morgan; Groff |
Synopsis | A fugitive meets a man from the future who offers to switch places. When he arrives, however, he finds that the man was another criminal, a shape-shifting Uranian. The authorities imprison him, assuming his form is a disguise. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ? |
Pencils | George Tuska |
Inks | Joe Sinnott |
Notes | This story is a retelling of "My Nightmare Has No End!", drawn by Don Heck, from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #12 (October 1960). George Tuska inks changed to Joe Sinnott based on information from the Atlas/Timely list. Bob Bailey confirms Sinnott inks, 12 August 2005. Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.) |
Reprinted | in Supernatural Thrillers (Marvel, 1972 series) #7 (June 1974) |
Synopsis | A man gets a mysterious call for help but thinks it's a crank call and slams down the phone, breaking it. The caller is overjoyed, since it was a tiny alien spaceship trapped inside the phone receiver. |
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 Kull the Destroyer (Marvel, 1973 series) #15 (August 1974); in Capitan America (Editoriale Corno, 1973 series) #91; in Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko (Marvel, 2005 series) #[nn] |