Issue | #2 |
Published | March 1970 |
Frequency | bi-monthly |
Cover Price | 0.15 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Characters | Sporr |
Genre | monsters |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Letters | Artie Simek |
Reprinted | from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #11 (September 1960) |
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) |
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) |
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) |