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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published March 1971
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Gorgilla!"

Characters Gorgilla
Genre monsters
Script Stan Lee ?
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Reprinted from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #24 (October 1961) [originally titled: The Abominable Snowman!]

12 page story "Gorgilla Strikes Again!"

Characters Gorgilla; Scotty; Anne
Synopsis Gorgilla stows away on a ship to America to contact the human race, but is met with fear and violence in New York. He stumbles across some communist spies and stops an assassination, but is killed by the military out of fear.
Genre monsters
Script Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ?
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Narrated in the first person. Gorgilla last appeared in the story reprinted in (Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #9 (February 1971), and later appears in Marvel Universe (Marvel, 1998 series) and Defenders (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (March 2001).
Reprinted from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #18 (April 1961)

5 page story "Something Missing!!"

Characters Sally; Tom
Synopsis The first mission to Mercury has a stow-away, the lover of one of the pilots. The captain is angry, but when they arrive on Mercury they find that the natives are hostile, and only the girl's display of love towards the pilot convinces them that the humans have something of value to offer.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ?
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Reprinted from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #24 (October 1961)

5 page story "He Waits in the Dark!"

Synopsis A mysterious janitor tries to improve conditions for the residents of a tenement and then faces the greedy landlord in a final showdown.
Genre horror
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Reprinted from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #24 (October 1961)