| Issue | #117 |
| Published | February 1964 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in November 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Characters | Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Eel [Leopold Stryke] |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby; Steve Ditko [Eel figure] |
| Inks | George Roussos; Steve Ditko [Eel Figure] |
| Colors | Stan Goldberg ? |
| Notes | Ditko credits supplied by Nick Caputo (26 July 2005). |
| Reprinted | in Essential Dr. Strange (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (December 2001) [black & white]; in Essential Human Torch (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003) [black & white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
| Characters | Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Eel [Leopold Stryke]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Thing [Ben Grimm] (cameo) |
| Synopsis | Having served his time, The Eel is released from jail, but Johnny's suspicious because he left prison wearing his Eel costume. Taking a security guard job at an aquarium, The Eel begins pulling crimes, but eventually, Johnny tracks him down and defeats him again. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Stan Lee (co-plot, script); Dick Ayers (co-plot, un-credited) |
| Pencils | Dick Ayers |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Notes | Second appearance of The Eel; previous appearance in issue #112 (September 1963); Eel has a 2-panel cameo in Fantastic Four Annual (Marvel, 1963 series) #3 (1965), then returns in X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #22 (July 1966). Story not reprinted in Marvel Tales run. Colors credit for Stan Goldberg removed due to lack of attribution. |
| Reprinted | in Essential Human Torch (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003) [black & white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006); in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #17 (November 16, 1971) [as "Il ritorno dell'Anguilla", Italian translation] |
| 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. |
| Reprinted | from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #26 (February 1955) |
| Notes | Advertises X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #3 (January 1964). Printed between the pages of the Human Torch story. |
| Characters | Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Baron Mordo [Karl Amadeus Mordo]; Ancient One [Yao] |
| Synopsis | Mordo places a spell over Strange's house that causes it to vanish to another dimension. Strange manages to track Mordo down using his ethereal form, but it becomes trapped in Mordo's lair. Mordo goes to see The Ancient One, claiming he's changed his way, just so he can attack him unawares. But Strange had found a way to escape by going straight thru the center of the Earth itself, and warned his mentor in advance. Though defeated, both Strange and The Ancient One know Mordo is becoming more powerful all the time. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Steve Ditko (plot, un-credited); Stan Lee (script) |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Letters | Sam Rosen |
| Notes | This is the fourt appearance of Baron Mordo; his last chronological appearance is in issue #114 (November 1963); he next appears in issue #121 (June 1964). Colors credit for Stan Goldberg removed due to lack of attribution. |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #7 (February 1967); in Marvel Premiere (Marvel, 1972 series) #11 (October 1973); in Doctor Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts (Pocket Books, 1978 series) #nn [1]; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #23 (1992); in Essential Dr. Strange (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (2001) [black & white]; in Marvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003) |