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Issue Details

Issue #91
Published December 1961
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in August or September 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Some information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "The Sacrifice!"

Characters Chuck Dawson
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (29 August 2006).

7 page story "The Sacrifice!"

Characters Chuck Dawson; Plant Creature
Synopsis An astronaut sent to Mars encounters a telepathic plant that destroyed all life on Mars and forces him to take it to Earth. The man kills himself by blowing up the spaceship and stranding the plant in space.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks George Klein
Reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #18 (November 1972)

2 page text story "Strange Mission"

Characters Alfred Pook; Harold; Dr. Smith
Synopsis A man becomes confused over directions to the dentist and as a result accidentally pilots an expedition to claim a new planet.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #45 (September 1956)

6 page story "The Coming of the Giants"

Characters Bobby Grant; Sally Grant
Synopsis Alien giants menace New York, but retreat at token resistance. The people find a projector and decide that the aliens' giant size was an illusion. The aliens really were giants and left the equipment to disguise their cowardice.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman

5 page story "The Mask of Morgumm!"

Characters Joe Phelps
Synopsis A baby-faced criminal gets an ugly mask to disguise himself and intimidate people. When he removes the mask he finds that it has made his face just as ugly as the mask and so easily recognizable.
Genre occult
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Notes This story is a retelling of "Who Hides Beneath My Mask?" drawn by Dick Ayers, from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #6 (November 1959).
Reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #18 (November 1972)

5 page story "The Warning!"

Synopsis A man frantically tries to convince people in a park that he saw a statue move. When he is unsuccessful he is satisfied, since now he knows that his alien people's plan to infiltrate Earth with soldiers disguised as statues will work.
Genre horror
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko