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Issue Details

Issue #76
Published January 1962
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in November 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "The Genie with the Light Brown Hair"

Characters Mike Morgan
Genre occult
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Cover inker credit from Dick Ayers' record books per Nick Caputo (November 17, 2003).

6 page story "The Genie with the Light Brown Hair!"

Characters Mike Morgan
Synopsis A man finds a genie and uses it to fulfill his selfish whims. The genie finally persuades him to let him return to his bottle, but tricks him into allowing himself to be trapped there too.
Genre occult
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Inker credit from Dick Ayers' record books per Nick Caputo (November 17, 2003); Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. The last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) also drawn by Kirby.

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 "Mind Over Matter!"

Synopsis A thief meets a lama in the foothills of the Himalayas and is amazed by the feats that he can accomplish with yoga. When he considers using the lama's powers of disappearance for crime the lama uses them to will him into non-existance.
Genre occult
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Notes This story is a retelling of "The Wrath of Chondu!" drawn by Doug Wildey in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #9 (May 1960). Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

7 page story "Follow the Leader"

Characters Paul Lindsey
Synopsis Space explorers are attacked by alien animals, and only make the situation worse by killing the largest beast, which was actually a robot holding the animals in check. They narrowly escape.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
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) #27 (March 1974)

5 page story "Escape to...Nowhere!"

Characters Joe Krane
Synopsis A convict in a prison hospital is set to return to death row when he is better so he doesn't want the doctor to dismiss him. A fellow prisoner across the room has a window view and the convict is pleasantly surprised to learn that there are no bars on the window. He resolves to make a break for it after nightfall, but when he slips out the window, he learns the reason there are no bars is that the hospital room is several stories above the ground.
Genre horror
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.