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Issue Details

Issue #81
Published June 1962
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in April 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "The Ruler of Earth!"

Characters R.O.E. (Ruler of Earth)
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks George Roussos ?
Notes Cover inker suggested by Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors list, December 2008. Original indexer did not credit an inker.
Reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #25 (November 1973)

7 page story "The Ruler of Earth!"

Characters R.O.E. (Ruler of Earth)
Synopsis In the near future of 1990, humanity has created a computer, named R.O.E. (Ruler of Earth), to settle disputes for it. A handful of communists attempt to re-program the computer to serve their aims, but the computer is incapable of any wrongdoing. Only man, the computer says, has the capacity to be evil.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Dick Ayers (signed)
Notes The second, fourth and sixth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series).
Reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #25 (November 1973)

2 page text story "The Treasure"

Characters Tommy Miller; Mr. Miller; Mrs. Miller; Wish
Synopsis A sick boy takes comfort from a stray dog that grants wishes.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration. On the 6th and 24th interior pages.
Reprinted from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #36 (October 1955)

6 page story "There Dwells a Dragon"

Characters Tommy; Tommy's dad
Synopsis Tommy's father takes him to the zoo, but Tommy is only interested in the knights and dragons in his book. Tommy's father passes through a mist at the zoo and emerges in Camelot, where he slays a dragon. When he returns to the present, he recognizes his own face in Tommy's book.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Dick Ayers (signed)
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. The second and fourth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series).

5 page story "Kunga"

Characters Kunga
Synopsis Two hunters investigate reports of a gigantic gorilla, but when they confront it, they discover that the gorilla isn't from Earth at all, and that some times force is not the solution to every problem.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Gene Colan
Inks Gene Colan
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. The second and fourth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series).

5 page story "The Comic Strip!"

Characters Nick Nash; "Tightwad" Ted; Tina Torrid
Synopsis Cartoonist Nick Nash uses his comic strip to take his revenge on people, but in the end gets an ironic and surreal comeuppance.
Genre horror
Script Stan Lee (signed)
Pencils Steve Ditko (signed)
Inks Steve Ditko (signed)
Notes The second and fourth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series); the last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series).