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Issue Details

Issue #61
Published October 1960
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in June 1960. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person unless otherwise specified. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "Here Comes Gomdulla the Living Pharaoh!"

Characters Gomdulla
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks George Klein
Notes Cover inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors list, December 2008.
Reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #12 (August 1971)

7 page story "I Defied Gomdulla--The Living Pharoah!"

Characters Gomdulla; Paul
Synopsis An ancient alien robot disguised as an Egyptian mummy-god is reactivated, and forms a cult until it is foiled by a policeman and his own high priest.
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #12 (August 1971)

2 page text story "Lucilles's Robot [sic]"

Characters Lucille Swart; Arnold Swart; Rogo the Robot; Frank Swart; Jimmy Swart; Officer Murphy; John Winters
Synopsis An engineer presents his wife with a robot to do her housework. He believes he is playing a prank, but the robot is real.
Genre science fiction
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Adventures Into Weird Worlds (Marvel, 1952 series) #19 (June 1953)

6 page story "I Dared Enter the Haunted Forest!"

Characters Darius Zorn
Synopsis A bigoted rich man buys a cursed forest, unconcerned with the misfortunes that befall the village. The forest's keeper takes him to another dimension, explaining that he was looking for a man who no one would miss to display in the alien zoo.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Notes 'Zorn' seems to have been a stock character of Don Heck. This one bears a physical resemblance to Roderic Zorn in the previous issue, but the similarity ends there. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted In Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #13 (October 1971)

5 page story "I Opened the Door to...Nowhere!"

Synopsis A thief forces a shop owner to hide him in a back room, but finds himself opening doors without rest for years.
Genre occult
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes Narrated in the third person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #17 (September 1972)

5 page story "The Curse of M'Gumbu!"

Characters M'Gumbu
Synopsis An African tribe ignores their witch-doctor's admonishments against raiding, believing that his vow never to harm another makes him helpless. When they try to kill him he shrinks the entire tribe to protect others.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Notes Narrated in the third person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #7 (May 1972)