| Issue | #113 |
| Published | October 1963 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in July 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Characters | Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Plantman [Sam Smithers] |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers ?; Don Heck ? |
| Colors | Stan Goldberg ? |
| Notes | Don Heck cover inks suggested by Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors list, December 2008. Original indexer had Dick Ayers firmly. |
| Reprinted | in Essential Human Torch (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003) [black & white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
| Characters | Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Plantman [Sam Smithers] (introduction, origin); Doris Evans (introduction); Mr. Evans (introduction) |
| Synopsis | The Human Torch saves his new girlfriend Doris’s father from a disgruntled gardener who gains the ability to control plants. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot); Jerry Siegel [as Joe Carter] (script) |
| Pencils | Dick Ayers |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Letters | Sam Rosen |
| Notes | Plantman's costume resembles that worn by The Shadow; he next appears, in a new costume, in issue #121 (June 1964). Doris Evans would continue as Johnny's semi-reluctant girlfriend until the end of his solo series. Colors credit for Stan Goldberg removed due to lack of attribution. (21/03/2010) |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #16 (September 1968); in Essential Human Torch (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003) [black & white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006); in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #12 (September 7, 1971) [pp 1–4, as "Arriva l'Uomo Pianta" part 1, Italian translation]; in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #13 (September 21, 1971) [pp 5–13, as "Arriva l'Uomo Pianta" part 2, Italian translation] |
| Characters | Herbert; Mr. Blooper |
| Synopsis | A man insists on getting a specially made pair of glasses in a hurry, and finds that the optician has a magical corridor that leads back in time. |
| Genre | occult |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. |
| Reprinted | from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #30 (October 1956) |
| Characters | Shanng |
| Synopsis | An alien crash lands on Earth, and offers knowledge to in exchange for help. Greedy humans cannot find his ship, since he sensed their selfish thoughts and hid himself until humanity is ready. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
| Pencils | Larry Lieber |
| Inks | Matt Fox |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Notes | Colors credit for Stan Goldberg removed due to lack of attribution. (21/03/2010) |
| Reprinted | in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #202 ([no date - circa 1978]) |
| Characters | Uncle Hugo; Harry Hook |
| Synopsis | A shoemaker who enjoys telling the neighborhood children stories of the little people who come out at night to help him make shoes becomes ill and goes to a loan shark to acquire money for medical treatment. The loan shark harasses him constantly to make interest payments on his loan so he must work night and day. The last time the greedy money lender visits the shoemaker he gets the shock of his life as it turns out the little people are real. They shrink the man and put him to work building shoes for the shoemaker. |
| Genre | occult |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | George Roussos (uncredited) |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Notes | Inks: previously Steve Ditko; info by Bob Bailey, 2005-03-19. (Per Sandell ed.) Steve Ditko plot credit removed due to lack of attribution. (13/07/2010) Colors credit for Stan Goldberg removed due to lack of attribution. |