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Issue Details

Issue #99
Published August 1962
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in May 1962. 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.

Cover Details - "Mister Morgan's Monster!"

Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers

7 page story "Mister Morgan's Monster"

Characters Philip Morgan; Mrs. Morgan
Synopsis Humanoid robots are banned, but their inventor keeps one in secret, and aliens try to turn it against humanity. It resists and they are forced to flee, but the robot’s inventor thinks that it disobeyed him by leaving hiding, not knowing that it saved humanity.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Set after 2090.
Reprinted in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #11 (August 1966); in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #16 (April 1972); in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #10 (June 1975)

2 page text story "Music Master"

Characters Joe; Gus; Angelo
Synopsis A struggling band takes on a poor but talented young harp player who turns out to be a young angel studying on Earth.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #39 (October 1955)

6 page story "The Day Before Doomsday!"

Characters John Peterson; Premier Zorkon
Synopsis A US scientist defects to the USSR and builds a large dome to protect their leaders from retaliation, allowing a massive strike on the US. The dome is really a pod to launch them into space.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes The last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series).

5 page story "The Man In the Glass Cage!"

Characters Joe Phelps; Anita Rogers; Bob
Synopsis A sound engineer tries to kill a girl who spurned him using sound waves. When they fail, he is confused, and, is killed by the waves which didn't affect the secretly hard-of-hearing girl.
Genre horror
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Reprinted in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #10 (June 1975)

5 page story "A Switch in Time!"

Characters Karl Kargon
Synopsis In the year 2050 a prisoner reads about the invention of a time machine and so breaks jail to return to the past to rub out the one witness to his crime. However, as he attempts to assault the man, he realizes that he has been rendered intangible like a ghost so as to be unable to effect any change in the course of events.
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).
Reprinted in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #12 (October 1975)