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Issue Details

Issue #66
Published March 1961
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in December 1960. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "The Return of the Hulk!"

Characters Hulk [Xemnu]
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers

13 page story "The Return of the Hulk!"

Characters Hulk [Xemnu, later called "the Titan"]; Joe Harper
Synopsis The Hulk returns from space and takes over a small town to get revenge on the human that defeated him. This human tracks him down and uses a mirror to turn the alien’s hypnotic powers back on him and destroy him.
Genre monsters
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two untitled parts (6 pp, 7 pp) The Hulk last appears in issue #62 (November 1962). He next appears as "Xemnu the Titan" in Marvel Feature (Marvel, 1971 series) #3 (June 1972). Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Script credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.
Reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #14 (December 1971) [as "The Return of the Titan!"]

1 page text story "The Talent"

Characters Harry; Bobby; Oswald
Synopsis A tramp can't convince a farm family that his talking dog is not a ventriloquist's trick.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Notes The first page of this story is printed between the pages of "The Return of the Hulk!", while the second page is printed between "The Black Ray" and "The Thing Behind the Wall". The last page is split with the statement of ownership.
Reprinted from Strange Tales of the Unusual (Marvel, 1955 series) #3 (April 1956)

5 page story "The Black Ray"

Characters Hiram Drudd
Synopsis An imprisoned criminal scientist pretends to make a medical device which is in fact a time machine. He sends his mind into the past to inhabit the body of 'the richest man' but is imprisoned once more, as the Count of Monte Cristo.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Notes Narrated in the first person. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #6 (February 1972)

Half page statement of ownership "Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 and June 11, 1960 (74 Stat. 208)"

Letters typeset
Notes This shares the last page of "The Talent". Average circulation of issues published October 1959–September 1960 (issues #56–64): 167,125.

5 page story "The Thing Behind the Wall!"

Characters Emil Fitch; Morak
Synopsis A thief passes through a wall and is confronted by an evil entity that plans to invade Earth. He escapes, only to be arrested and jailed. He doesn’t know if it was real, but is too afraid to touch the wall of his cell and find out.
Genre occult
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes Narrated in the first person.
Reprinted in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #7 (May 1972)