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Issue Details

Issue #16
Published July 1972
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.20 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Beware the Son of Goom!"

Characters Googam
Genre monsters
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Vince Colletta

13 page story "Beware of Googam, Son of Goom!!"

Characters Googam (introduction, origin); Mark Langley; Helen Langley; Billy Langley (introduction); Goom (flashback)
Synopsis Goom leaves an offspring in a cave to complete his conquest, and the son comes across the family of the scientist who was responsible for his father's defeat.
Genre monsters
Script Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ?
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Narrated in the first person. Googam next appears in Marvel Monsters: Fin Fang 4 (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005). Billy Langley next appears as an adult in Marvel Monsters: From the Files of Ulysses Bloodstone and the Monster Hunters (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (November 2005).
Reprinted from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #17 (May 1961)

4 page story "He Who Laughs Last, Gets...The Horselaugh"

Synopsis A man who plays the rear end in a dummy horse act is jealous of the man who plays the head, so he kills him and when he returns to the stage that night, is trampled by the front part of the costume.
Genre horror
Pencils Jack Abel ?
Reprinted from Adventures into Terror (Marvel, 1951 series) #11 (August 1952)

5 page story "I Am... Gorak!"

Characters Gorak
Synopsis A famous magician is enraged when his power is questioned, and he reveals that the whole world is an illusion, and only he is real. He even confronts the reader, but fades away as the story ends.
Genre occult
Script Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ?
Pencils Steve Ditko (signed)
Inks Steve Ditko (signed)
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Narrated in the first person.
Reprinted from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #14 (February 1961)