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Issue Details

Issue #19
Published September 1975
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 36
Editing ? (reprint editor); Stan Lee (original editor)

Cover Details - "The Colossus That Challenged The World!"

Genre Science Fiction
Pencils Ron Wilson ?
Inks Frank Giacoia
Letters Irving Watanabe
Notes Cover pencil and cover ink credits from Nick Caputo (April 1, 2006).

5 page story "I Fought the Colossus!"

Characters Prof. Reynolds; "Colossus" supercomputer
Synopsis An advanced supercomputer turns Earth into a utopia, but suspicion remains, only to be inflamed when it is found to be building a giant robot. Humanity turns on the computer and destroys the robot, only to find that it was intended to replace the supercomputer, which breaks down, leaving humanity without its intelligence.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes Narrated in the first person.
Reprinted from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #72 (December 1959)

5 page story "The Hidden Martians"

Characters Major Caswell; Bill Hamilton; Fred; Tess
Genre Science Fiction
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Dick Ayers
Reprinted from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #14 (November 1953)

5 page story "Earth Will Be Destroyed!"

Synopsis Aliens plot to devastate Earth before invading, but they cannot pinpoint its location. They are unaware that they are on Earth as a speck of dust in a petri dish, which is casually discarded.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee ?
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes This concept was re-used with a single creature in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #18 (April 1961) as "Monsteroso!" drawn by Steve Ditko and in Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series) #9 (February 1962 series) as "The Terror of Tim Boo Baa" by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Stan Lee is speculatively credited as the writer on the basis of his authorship of the second re-telling.
Reprinted from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #9 (May 1960)

3 page story "He Never Reached the Ground!"

Genre Science Fiction
Pencils Alfonso Greene
Inks Alfonso Greene
Reprinted from World of Fantasy (Marvel, 1956 series) #11 (April 1958)

1 page Bullpen Bulletins; Stan Lee's Soapbox promo (ad from the publisher) "Bullpen Bulletins; Stan Lee's Soapbox [September 1975]"

Letters typeset
Notes Stan Lee talks about THE WIZARD OF OZ treasury edition. Miscellaneous Marvel news items. Small obituary for Artie Simek, who passed away on February 20, 1975.