| Issue | #93 |
| Published | February 1962 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in November 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Some information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Timely/Atlas discussion list. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Notes | Pencils credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (29 August 2006); the original indexer credited Steve Ditko. |
| Characters | Jason Burke; Clara Burke; X-13 |
| Synopsis | An inventor builds a robot, but others are afraid of it. The robot goes on a rampage and is dropped into the sea. It leaves a letter saying that it will emerge when humanity learns tolerance. |
| Genre | monsters |
| Script | Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot) |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.) |
| Reprinted | in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #22 (April 1973) [p2–7, as "When the Monster Strikes!"] |
| Characters | Howard; Uncle Bart |
| Synopsis | A TV studio page and aspiring magician gets a lucky break when he meets a real sorcerer time traveling from the past. |
| Genre | occult |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. |
| Reprinted | from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #34 (August 1955) |
| Characters | Steve Miller; "Don Russell"; Nan Miller |
| Synopsis | An agent signs a singer who is an instant hit. He discovers that the singer is an alien whose next record will help his people conquer Earth, and manufactures a scandal to ruin the alien’s career. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot) |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | The last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Kirby. Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.) |
| Reprinted | in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #27 (November 1973) |
| Characters | Miko Kyusha; Mr. Black |
| Synopsis | A Japanese youth doesn’t want to fight in World War 2. A stranger named Mr. Black saves him, but only so he will be where he was fated to be in 1945, in Hiroshima as the bomb falls. |
| Genre | occult |
| Script | Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot) |
| Pencils | Gene Colan |
| Inks | Gene Colan |
| Notes | This story is retold in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #33 (July 1962) as "The Voice of Fate!", drawn by Gene Colan. Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.) Pencils/inks previously miscredited to Don Heck. Gene Colan added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.) |
| Reprinted | in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #13 (April 1973) |
| Synopsis | The mannequins in a store come to life in a creepy atmosphere as it closes. However, this is not thought odd by anyone, because on this alien world all people are made of wax, and some work as mannequins, but leave with everyone else at closing. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Notes | The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko. |
| Reprinted | in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #22 |