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Issue Details

Issue #11
Published September 1971
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Gruto"

Characters Gruto
Genre monsters
Pencils Steve Ditko (Gruto); Marie Severin (fleeing humans and background)
Inks Steve Ditko (Gruto); Herb Trimpe (fleeing humans and background) ?
Reprinted from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #67 (April 1961) [partially redrawn and relettered]

13 page story "Gruto! The Creature from Nowhere!"

Characters Gruto; Dan Mitchell; Laura
Synopsis A journalist convinces the public that an amnesiac alien is a menace in order to make a better story. When the alien recovers, it says that it had come to share advanced technology with the humans, but it is disgusted by the journalist’s lies and the people’s violence and leaves.
Genre monsters
Script Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ?
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Gruto!" (7 pp).
Reprinted from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #67 (April 1961)

6 page story "We Were Trapped with the Silent Monster!"

Characters Roderic Zorn
Synopsis Against expert opinion, a engineer digs a mine to the centre of the Earth and finds dragons. He collapses the mine himself to allow his workers to escape. They say that the mine collapsed as warned to avoid panic, and silently remember the engineer's heroism
Genre monsters
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Notes Narrated in the first person.
Reprinted from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #60 (September 1960)