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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published July 1961
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in April 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "This is Manoo! The Thing That Hid On Earth!"

Characters Manoo; Jones
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Sol Brodsky
Notes Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (11 March 2009); the original indexer credited Dick Ayers. The Official Index To The Marvel Universe #14 (February 2010) credits Dick Ayers as the cover inker.
Reprinted in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn]

13 page story "I Led the Strange Search for Manoo!"

Characters Manoo; Billy Jones; Mr. Miller
Synopsis A college student aids an alien policeman hunt down an alien criminal hiding on earth, or is it the other way around?
Genre monsters
Script Larry Lieber
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Dick Ayers (signed)
Notes This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (7 pp) and part two—"The Secret of Manoo!" (6 pp). Data contributed by Joseph Marek via the GCD Main List (20 May 2003). Larry Leiber writing credit as per "The Official Index To The Marvel Universe" #14 (February 2010).
Reprinted in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn]

2 page text story "The Comic"

Characters Stan Wepp
Synopsis A bored television comedian is mysteriously transported back to the small mining town and small theatres that he loves.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel 1951 series) #45 (May 1956)

5 page Dr. Droom story "The World Below!"

Characters Dr. Anthony Droom [later retroactively renamed Doctor Druid], Ramu
Synopsis Dr Droom defeats an attempt by Atlantis to conquer the surface world.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Dick Ayers (signed)
Notes Data contributed by Joseph Marek via the GCD Main List (20 May 2003). Stan Lee writing credit as per "The Official Index To The Marvel Universe" #14 (February 2010).
Reprinted in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #22 (January 1977) [as a Doctor Druid story]; in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn]

5 page story "Rocky's Last Ride"

Characters Rocky Baines
Synopsis Chisler Rocky gets a deal thats too good to be true, when a customer just "gives" him his car.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko (signed)
Inks Steve Ditko (signed)
Notes Data contributed by Joseph Marek via the GCD Main List (20 May 2003). Stan Lee writing credit as per "The Official Index To The Marvel Universe" #14 (February 2010).
Reprinted in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn]