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Issue Details

Issue #6
Published February 1972
Frequency quarterly
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 52
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "The Brain Behind the Fangs!"

Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Frank Giacoia

7 page story "The Midnight Monster"

Characters Victor Avery; Bill Cooper
Synopsis When handsome scientist playboy Victor Avery is rejected by a girl he turns himself into a monster to wreak revenge on her fiancé only to become his own victim.
Genre monsters
Script Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ?
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Script and synopsis added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.)
Reprinted from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #79 (April 1962)

5 page story "There Is a Brain Behind the Fangs!"

Characters Frank Miller; Dr. John Redfield; Laddie; Pharaoh
Synopsis A man is convinced that dogs are secretly planning to take over the world. His friend the psychiatrist convinces him otherwise by showing that his dog cannot understand complex questions, even under hypnosis. Neither suspects that the dog has been hypnotized by the cat.
Genre horror
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Notes Narrated in the first person.
Reprinted from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #62 (November 1960)

5 page story "I Took a Journey Into Fear!"

Characters Otto Bruger
Synopsis A man thinks he has traveled through time with the "time machine" he built but the shock he receives from it when he throws the switch unhinges his mind and when the men with the white coats come to take him away he perceives them as barbarians of an earlier age.
Genre horror
Script Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ?
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Reprinted from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #63 (December 1960)

5 page story "Wings of the Butterfly!"

Characters Eric Krane
Synopsis In the year 2050 Eric Krane is a spaceman who collects butterflies only to find himself trapped on planet where butterflies collect men.
Genre horror
Script Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Pencils Joe Sinnott
Inks Joe Sinnott
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Script and synopsis added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.)
Reprinted from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #79 (April 1962)

5 page story "The Last Laugh!"

Characters Happy Harper
Synopsis A practical joker suffers the ultimate practical joke - after his death.
Genre horror
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Reprinted from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #29 (March 1962)

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 horror
Script Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ?
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Notes Narrated in the first person.
Reprinted from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #66 (March 1961)

5 page story "The Voice of Fate!"

Characters Walter Krugg; one of the Fates
Synopsis The Fates make a wager over whether humans will ever understand that they cannot escape them. One of them tells a jewel thief that he will be punished, but he defies fate and flees the country, thinking that since the US is in World War II he will never be found and punished in Hiroshima.
Genre occult
Script Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ?
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Notes This story is a retelling of "Mister Black", drawn by Gene Colan in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #93 (February 1962) with an American protaganist instead of a Japanese one.
Reprinted from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #33 (July 1962)