| Issue | #109 |
| Published | June 1963 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in March 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Characters | Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Sorcerer [Dorian Murdstone] |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Stan Lee ? |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Colors | Stan Goldberg ? |
| Reprinted | in Essential Human Torch (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003) [black & white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
| Characters | Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Sorcerer [Dorian Murdstone] (introduction); Thing [Ben Grimm] (cameo); Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards] (cameo); Invisible Girl [Sue Storm] (cameo); Pandora (flashback); Circe (flashback) |
| Synopsis | The Human Torch fights a sorcerer that unleashes the evils imprisoned in Pandora’s Box for his own profit. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot), Robert Bernstein [as R. Berns] (script) |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Letters | Marty Epp |
| Notes | The Sorcerer and his mansion in the country appears to be a tribute to Dr. Julian Karswell (Niall MacGinnis) from the film Night of the Demon (1957). A woman who used "Pandora's Box" to commit crimes turned up in the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon, "Here Comes Trubble". Colorist credit for Stan Goldberg removed due to lack of attribution. (18/03/2010) |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #11 (November 1967); in Essential Human Torch (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003) [black & white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006); in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #10 (August 10, 1971) [as "Lo Stregone e la scatola di Pandora", Italian translation] |
| Characters | Stan Wepp |
| Synopsis | A bored television comedian is mysteriously transported back to the small mining town and small theatres that he loves. |
| Genre | occult |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. |
| Reprinted | from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #45 (May 1956) |
| Synopsis | Space explorers discover life on a far off planet, but mission control panics at the thought of alien germs loose on Earth and so forbids them to return. The crew asks for chance to explain, but mission control breaks the communication as they cannot bear to listen to their pleas. What the space explorers were trying to say before their communication line was broken was that the life on the planet grants disease immunity and long life span. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Notes | Colourist credit for Stan Goldberg removed due to lack of attribution (18/03/2010). Letters credit by Barry Pearl. |
| Characters | Eric Kane |
| Synopsis | A scientist builds a time machine and travels to prehistoric times. When he kills an attacking caveman he unknowingly kills his own human ancestor, meaning that he becomes a neanderthal. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
| Pencils | Larry Lieber |
| Inks | Sol Brodsky |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Notes | Colorist credit for Stan Goldberg removed due to lack of attribution. Inks and letters credits by Barry Pearl; originally listed Larry Lieber (inks). |