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Issue Details

Issue #69
Published June 1961
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in April 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "I Was Captured by Korilla!"

Characters Korilla
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Cover inker credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors list, December 2008. Original indexer had not credited an inker.
Reprinted in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #12 (July 1971)

13 page story "I Was Captured by...Korilla!"

Characters Korilla
Synopsis A cab driver uncovers an alien plotting an invasion of Earth. The police won’t believe him, but he foils the invasion on his own and the aliens are killed by their masters for their failure.
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part 1 (6 pp) and part 2—"The Secret of...Korilla!" (7 pp). Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #12 (July 1971)

2 page text story "Tricky Travel"

Characters Eli Twiddle; Mr. Hardy
Synopsis A travel agent has the ability to travel in his dreams, but eventually he grows out of it.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951) #48 (August 1956)

5 page story "The Iron Giant!"

Characters Ben Perkins; Wharton
Synopsis A train conductor in the Old West, who loves his locomotive, is robbed by bandits and left in the wilderness to die, but the bandits are chased to justice by the suddenly-animated locomotive.
Genre occult; western
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #164 (November 1972)

5 page story "When Darkness Falls!"

Synopsis A man sees mannequins move during the business hours of the store, and stays until closing. When the mannequins step down from their positions he berates them for nearly being caught, since he was another living mannequin all along.
Genre occult
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) #13 (January 1972)