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Issue Details

Issue #80
Published May 1962
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands March 1, 1962 according to Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website and February 27, 1962 according to Bob Bailey. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.

Cover Details - "Won't You Step Into My Parlor?"

Genre occult
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Inks added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.). The cover art does not really depict any part of the story, there is no point when one of the two men is tiny and the other normal sized, neither of the characters on the cover resemble those in the story. Lee and Ditko are mentioned by name in a cover caption.

7 page story "Won't You Step Into My Parlor...???"

Characters Luther Krumhausen; Darius Zamora
Synopsis Herr Krumhausen prepares a giant room to deceive business competitor only to really shrink himself.
Genre occult
Script Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ?
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Title, Script and synopsis added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.). The third, fourth and sixth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series).
Reprinted in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #7 (October 1973); in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #99 [as "Non vuoi camminare nel mio salotto...???", Italian translation]

2 page text story "Strange Mission"

Characters Alfred Pook; Harold; Dr. Smith
Synopsis A man becomes confused over directions to the dentist and as a result accidentally pilots an expedition to claim a new planet.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneey
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration. Sequence added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.)
Reprinted from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #45 (September 1956)

6 page story "Propaganda"

Characters Boris Grozny; Ivan Grozny
Synopsis Low level communist worker Boris Grozny is given a chance to avoid Siberia if he can stir up turmoil in an African nation. All he stirs up is trouble for himself with the native gods.
Genre occult
Script Larry Lieber (plot, script); Stan Lee (plot)
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Script, inks, characters, synopsis added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.) The second page includes an advertisement for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series); the last page includes an advertisement for the Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also drawn by Jack Kirby.

5 page story "I Spent the Night in a Haunted House!"

Characters Tom
Synopsis A young boy who has just moved to town is convinced to spend the night in a haunted house. He doesn't find any ghosts but the next day is realizes the house itself was the ghost.
Genre occult
Script Larry Lieber ? (plot, script); Stan Lee ? (plot)
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Notes Script, synopsis added by Bob Bailey. This story is retold as "I Speak of the Haunted House!" by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #42 (June 1963). (Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.)) The fourth page includes an advertisement for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series). The kids are shown reading comic books: Journey into Mystery, Strange Tales, Tales to Astonish and Tales of Suspense and they mention them by name.
Reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #26 (October 1973)

5 page story "For the Birds!"

Characters Borgon
Synopsis Mr. Borgon is an unscrupulous hunter of rare animals in the future who finds himself trapped by his own deceit.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee (signed)
Pencils Steve Ditko (signed)
Inks Steve Ditko (signed)
Notes Script, synopsis by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.). The third page includes an advertisement for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series); the last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.