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Issue Details

Issue #68
Published May 1961
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in February 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "Behold the Face of Spragg! Conquerer of the Human Race!"

Characters Spragg
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Cover inker confirmed by Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors list, December 2008. The original indexer had credited Ayers with a question mark.

13 page story "Spragg the Conqueror of the Human Race!"

Characters Spragg (introduction, origin); Prof. Bob Robertson (introduction, last name not given)
Synopsis Spragg, an outcast of his race, is forced to the surface of the Earth in Transylvania, where he enslaves the local villagers and forces them to build him a device to boost his powers. A visiting scientist figures out how to rid the planet of Spragg, and flings him into space.
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two chapters: an untitled chapter one (6 pp) and chapter two—"Spragg" (7 pp). Spragg and Prof. Robertson next appear in Sensational She-Hulk (Marvel, 1989 series) #31 (September 1991). Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #15 (January 1972)

2 page text story "The Utopia"

Characters Bob Winkle; Fred Dunn
Synopsis Two old friends deceive each other about their own success, until a dream of a heavenly restaurant teaches them the importance of honesty.
Genre occult
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #53 (September 1956)

5 page story "Where Walks the Ghost"

Characters Big Monk McGak; Mr. Zero
Synopsis An escaped convict looks to buy a house that has the reputation of being haunted so people will steer clear of him, but when he meets up with a real estate agent turns out to be the ghost that haunts the prospective property, he turns himself in to the police for his own protection.
Genre occult
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #16 (April 1972); in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #117 (September 30, 1975) [as "Il regna del fantasma!", Italian translation]

5 page story "The Man From Mars!"

Characters Joe Krunk; Luxurr
Synopsis A dishonest carnival owner hires an amnesiac to play a Martian and cheats him on his wages. When the man regains his memory, he realizes that he really is a Martian, sent to Earth to capture a human for the zoo, and so he takes the crook with him.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Notes Narrated in the second person. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #15 (February 1972)