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Issue Details

Issue #19
Published July 1961
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in April 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "The Green Thing!"

Characters The Green Thing
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008)

13 page story "The Green Thing!"

Characters The Green Thing; Ignatius Rex
Synopsis A botanist invents a serum to magnify the latent intelligence of plants. He tested it on a remote island, but the plant was evil and wanted to conquer the world. The scientist ran from the plant and used the serum on a more advanced plant, which was benevolent and stopped the evil plant.
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes This story is divided into two untitled parts (6 pp, 7 pp). Narrated in the first person.
Reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #14 (March 1972); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008)

2 page text story "Lady Luck"

Characters Lester Ford; Marie Ford; Lady Luck
Synopsis A businessman doesn’t believe in luck, but several beneficial encounters with an old lady change his mind.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #136 (July 1955)

5 page story "The Haunted Paper"

Characters Nick Rover; Olef
Synopsis A criminal skips town and sets up a newspaper as a front. When his typesetter changes the headlines from what they should read into what actually happens in the near future, he realizes he's got a goldmine, but the typesetter refuses to tell him how he can accurately predict the future. The criminal threatens to fire and blacklist the typesetter if he doesn't come clean, and the next headline he sets tells of an accident happening to the newspaper owner. Panicked, he turns himself in to the police so that he will be safe in jail, which is what the typesetter wanted all along.
Genre occult
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Letters Artie Simek
Reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #14 (March 1972); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008)

5 page story "The Coming of Maaboo"

Characters Charlie Wilkes; Maaboo
Synopsis A mercenary hears of a tribe that hoards gold while waiting for the return of a legendary alien. The mercenary poses as the alien and steals the gold, but he is abducted by the real alien.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Narrated in the first person.
Reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #14 (March 1972); in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008)