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Issue Details

Issue #70
Published July 1961
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in May 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "The Sandman Cometh!"

Characters Sandman (alien); Steve Bronson; Anne Bronson
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers

13 page story "The Sandman Cometh!"

Characters Sandman (alien) Steve Bronson; Anne Bronson; Bobby Bronson
Synopsis A family stumbles across a hostile alien made of sand. The military are helpless, but it is defeated by the family’s bookish son, who uses water to dissolve it and traps it in a bucket.
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two untitled parts (6 pp, 7 pp). Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #13 (October 1971)

2 page text story "Bird Talk"

Characters Tony Tipple; Skeets Mulligan; Toodles Murphy
Synopsis A meeting with a strange man gives a boy an unusual way of getting a pet bird, talking to birds.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #50 (October 1956)

5 page story "A Thousand Years"

Characters Mr. Jordan; The Devil ?
Synopsis A convict is offered freedom and a thousand years of life by a mysterious stranger in return for his name on a contract. He signs, and finds himself freed, and sealed in a rocket flying away from Earth. He feels neither hunger or thirst, so he will live a thousand years alone.
Genre occult
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Notes Narrated in the first person. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

5 page story "The Stone Man"

Characters Dralla/Drallas (both names are used)
Synopsis An old man prays statue of a local hero for help for the local poor. His prayers are answered, but his neighbours cheat him out of his share of the statue’s gift. The statue comes to life, punishes the villagers and takes the old man to heaven.
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 Kull the Destroyer (Marvel, 1973 series) #12 (February 1974) [pp1–2, p3: panels 2, 4–6, p4: panels 2, 4–5, p5, reformatted]