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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published March 1970
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "I Created Sporr, the Thing That Could Not Die!"

Characters Sporr
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Letters Artie Simek
Reprinted from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #11 (September 1960)

7 page story "I Created...Sporr! The Thing That Could Not Die!"

Characters Sporr
Synopsis A scientist moves into Dr. Frankenstein's castle to set up his experimental growth ray. He is arrested by the villagers, leaving his experiment to grow out of control.
Genre monster
Script Stan Lee?; Larry Lieber?
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Dick Ayers (signed)
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Narrated in the first person.
Reprinted from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #11 (September 1960)

7 page story "I Am Dragoom! The Flaming Invader!"

Characters Victor Cartwright (only appearance); Dragoom (introduction and origin)
Synopsis Dragoom, a flaming monster from the planet Vulcan, arrives on Earth and terrorizes the planet. The military are helpless before him, but a monster movie director fools him into fleeing by using special effects to fake the arrival of police from Vulcan in pursuit of Dragoom.
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Dick Ayers (signed)
Editing Stan Lee (original editor)
Notes Dragoom next appears in Nick Fury's Howling Commandos (Marvel, 2005 series) #6 (May 2006). Unconfirmed creator information removed due to lack of known evidence (17-02-2010).
Reprinted from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #76 (August 1960)

7 page story "Taboo! The Thing From the Murky Swamp!"

Characters Lewis Conrad (only appearance); Taboo [alien] (introduction and origin)
Synopsis A popular adventure writer finds a giant mud creature from another planet stranded in a Brazilian swamp. The alien tricks him into bringing all Earth's scientific records for nefarious purposes, but is destroyed by an H-bomb hidden with the records.
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Narrated in the first person. Taboo next appears in issue #5 (September 1970).
Reprinted from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #75 (June 1960)