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Issue Details

Issue #25
Published November 1973
Frequency 7 times a year
Cover Price 0.20 USD
Pages 36
Editing Roy Thomas

Cover Details - "The Ruler of Earth!"

Characters R.O.E. (Ruler of Earth)
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks George Roussos ?
Notes Inking credit suggestion from Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors list, December 2008. Formerly credited to Dick Ayers (original indexer) and Paul Reinman (Caputo).
Reprinted from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #81 (June 1962)

7 page story "The Ruler of Earth!"

Characters R.O.E. (Ruler of Earth)
Synopsis In the near future of 1990, humanity has created a computer, named R.O.E. (Ruler of Earth), to settle disputes for it. A handful of communists attempt to re-program the computer to serve their aims, but the computer is incapable of any wrongdoing. Only man, the computer says, has the capacity to be evil.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee?; Larry Lieber?
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Dick Ayers (signed)
Editing Stan Lee (original editor)
Reprinted from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #81 (June 1962)

3 page story "They Called Her a Witch!"

Synopsis Peasants call an old woman a witch, a man gives her the benefit of the doubt, but it turns out the peasants were right.
Genre horror
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Russ Heath
Inks Russ Heath
Notes Lee and Heath credits are added for this reprint.
Reprinted from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #10 (July 1952)

5 page story "When the Earth Vanished!"

Synopsis Tiny alien invaders decide to detonate their ultimate bomb thinking that unobserved Earthlings have gone into hiding to avoid their invasion force and end up blowing up an Earth boy's ping pong ball and themselves as they are caught in the aftershocks of the blast.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ?
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Ditko credit is added for this reprint.
Reprinted from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #13 (January 1961)

5 page story "The Man Who Fell!"

Characters Hans; Katrina; Albert
Synopsis A town's mayor threatens to imprison a gypsy fortune-teller who spurned his advances if her prediction that he will be injured by a fall does not come true. He goes to the basement and has himself tied down to prevent this, but realizes too late that a chandelier above him is coming loose.
Genre horror
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Editing Stan Lee (original editor)
Reprinted from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #85 (June 1961)