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Issue Details

Issue #23
Published September 1973
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.20 USD
Pages 36
Editing Roy Thomas

Cover Details - "The Monster Waits for Me!"

Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Ayers cover credit provided 2006 by Nick Caputo.
Reprinted from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #92 (January 1962) [originally titled "The Thing Hunts for Me!"]

7 page story "The Monster Hunts for Me!"

Synopsis An old man in a boarding house tells a woman that he is being hunted by a shape-shifting alien. He dies of a heart attack and the woman is relieved, since she is the alien and will not have to kill him.
Genre science fiction
Script Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot)
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Editing Stan Lee (original editor)
Notes Script fixed by Bob Bailey, 2 September 2005 (Per Sandell, ed.).
Reprinted from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #92 (January 1962) [originally titled "The Thing Hunts for Me!"]

5 page story "Inside the Flying Saucer!"

Synopsis This story shows an ordinary movie crowd reacting to a film of alien invasion. When the film ends, the people gather their coats and belongings to go home. The Earth is depicted in the night sky and the reader realizes the story took place on Mars.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Editing Stan Lee (original editor)
Reprinted from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #92 (January 1962)

7 page story "The Hooded Horror!"

Synopsis A gang boss who always wears a hood makes his underlings curious about what lies beneath so one of them uses a knife on him when he's asleep and discovers that the hood really was his head.
Genre horror
Script Stan Lee (signed)
Pencils Carmine Infantino (signed)
Inks Sy Barry (signed)
Reprinted from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #12 (September 1952)