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Issue Details

Issue #67
Published April 1961
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in January 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "Gruto"

Characters Gruto; Dan Mitchell; Laura
Genre monsters
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #11 (September 1971)

13 page story "Gruto! The Creature from Nowhere!"

Characters Gruto; Dan Mitchell; Laura
Synopsis A journalist convinces the public that an amnesiac alien is a menace in order to make a better story. When the alien recovers, it says that it had come to share advanced technology with the humans, but it is disgusted by the journalist’s lies and the people’s violence and leaves.
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Letters Artie Simek ?
Notes Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Gruto!" (7 pp). Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #11 (September 1971)

2 page text story "The Party"

Characters Mr. Braggle
Synopsis A salesman trying to unload some oil stocks thinks that he’s found a rich mark, but instead walks into a party of talking dogs.
Genre humor
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Mystical Tales (Marvel, 1956 series) #2 (August 1956)

5 page story "The Black Clock!"

Characters Mr. Jordan
Synopsis A criminal steals a strange clock from an old man, but finds that it is cursed. He cannot put it down without pain, but he ages rapidly as he holds it. He believes that returning the clock will cure him, leaving him to choose between rapid death, pain or jail.
Genre occult
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Notes Narrated in the first person. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #12 (November 1971)

5 page story "The Last Voyage of Captain Kragg"

Characters Captain Kragg; Kumbus
Synopsis A cowardly space pilot flees a battle until his spaceship runs out of power and he crashes into a bog on an Earth-like planet. He finds himself in a place similar to 15th-century Spain, complete with a sailor who is attempting to prove the planet round with a voyage around the globe. The space pilot thinks this is a sure bet to gain fame and fortune so he arranges to exchange places with the sailor and head out to sea. Unfortunately for him, the planet he has crash landed upon does indeed turn out to be flat.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Letters Artie Simek ?
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #12 (November 1971)