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Issue Details

Issue #27
Published March 1962
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in December 1961 (December 12 according to Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website, December 19 according to Bob Bailey). This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.

Cover Details - "When Oog Lives Again!"

Characters Oog
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers ?; Steve Ditko ?
Notes Inks credit in dispute: Dick Ayers (Nick Caputo, GCD Error List, 30 August 2006) or Steve Ditko (Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005)
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)

7 page story "Oog Lives Again!"

Characters Oog
Synopsis An alien trapped in ice is freed and mocks the fearful humans as it waits to be rescued. "Invade you? You have nothing we want! We should quarantine you!"
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Script and inks added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
Reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #20 (December 1972); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)

2 page text story "From Outer Space"

Characters Jonathan Ditmar
Synopsis When hostile aliens come to Earth of the future they are persuaded not to enslave humanity because of Earth's music.
Genre science fiction
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration. Sequence added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
Reprinted from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #26 (February 1955)

6 page story "On the Trail of the Witch!"

Characters Inspector Koraz
Synopsis A witch is fearful of being pursued by a witch-hunter, but it turns out her fears are groundless as he is also a witch.
Genre occult
Script Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
Reprinted in Beware (Marvel, 1973 series) #1 (March 1973); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)

5 page story "John Doe"

Characters Prof. Blake Burke; John Doe
Synopsis An inventor creates a humanoid robot and treats it like a close friend. When the robot sacrifices itself to save him from a bear, his friends realize that the inventor is also a robot.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Joe Sinnott
Notes Narrated in the first person. Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)

5 page story "His Name Was...Merlin!"

Characters Joe Cooke [The Great Nero/Merlin the Mystic]; Merlin
Synopsis An untalented magician who takes the name Merlin is visited by the spirit of the real Merlin in the form of a derelict and offers to teach him some tricks. When the man learns Merlin's last trick of completely disappearing, he stiffs Merlin his fee. Merlin tells him that he'll be sorry and is the last to depart the theater after the magician uses his disappearing trick and is never seen again.
Genre occult
Script Stan Lee (signed)
Pencils Steve Ditko (signed)
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes If this story were in Marvel continuity, the Merlin that appears here could be the real Merlin or one of his various imposters.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)