Where Monsters Dwell (1970) comic books in grades to FN

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $49.00 View scan Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. I Brought the Mighty Cyclops Back to Life! A young couple thaw out a cyclops in an iceberg, and must lure it into an icy pit to keep it from hurting anyone. Gorgolla! The Living Gargoyle!!; An explorer discovers Gorgolla in the Himalayan Mountains; Gorgolla awakes and captures him, then summons his Stonian brethren to begin their attack on Earth. I Alone Know the Dread Secret of Gor-Kill, The Living Demon! All pencils by Jack Kirby, all inks by Dick Ayers. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.15. Cover price $0.15.

Cover pencils by Marie Severin, inks by Tom Palmer. Behind My Door Waits... Medusa!, art by Steve Ditko; A curio shop owner tells customers that a strange statue is a burglar turned to stone by Medusa; No one believes him, but none dare open the door which he says leads to Medusa. I Met the Thing on Midnight Island!, art by Don Heck; A sailor finds a note from a castaway, but on the island named he finds only a strange creature; When an alien ship arrives to pick up the creature, he realizes that it was a castaway. I Was Trapped in Nightmare Valley, art by Paul Reinman; An explorer encounters sentient, extraterrestrial trees in Asian mountains; They plan to spread their pollen all over the Earth, but they are fortuitously destroyed by a volcano. The Monster in My Cellar!, art by Reed Crandall. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.15. Cover price $0.15.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. I Challenged...Groot! The Monster from Planet X!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; The monarch of Planet X arrives on Earth in order to capture a town for experimental purposes back on his home world. I Dared to Look Into the Beyond!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko; A scientist builds a time machine to travel into the future. He believes that he has travelled to the past, demonstrating that the future does not yet exist, but in fact he saw a future in which Earth was abandoned. My Friend Is...Not Quite Human!, art by Steve Ditko; A misogynist wood-carver falls in love with his sculpture and has himself transformed into wood, but his refusal to pay a gypsy mystic leads to her making the wooden figure human out of spite. When the Saucer Strikes!, art by Paul Reinman. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.15. Cover price $0.15.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby and Marie Severin (re-touches), inks by Dick Ayers and Marie Severin (re-touches). Rommbu!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; An escaped geologist convicted of armed robbery leads an alien invader to an active volcano in order to sacrifice himself to destroy the alien and protect the planet. The Terrible Trap!, art by Steve Ditko; A hunter with contempt for the animals he captures is captured by giant aliens and placed in a maze from which he can see a rocket ship he could use to pilot his way home if only he could figure out how to escape the maze. The Thing With Red Eyes, art by Don Heck; A gangster buys a pincushion doll that looks like his rival, and his reactions to pins stuck in it convince him that it works. He throws the doll out the window of a tall building, but his rival has altered the doll to look like him instead. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.15. Cover price $0.15.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby and Marie Severin (re-touches and additions), inks by Steve Ditko and Marie Severin (re-touches and additions). I Learned the Monstrous Secret of Bombu!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; Explorers meet a witch doctor named Bombu, who seems to possess real power; He is killed by lightning and when they find that his mask is really his face they realize that he was an alien. I Found the Things from Nowhere, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko; A man messes with his TV and it picks up battle between alien-looking creatures. The Magic of Mordoo!, script by Larry Lieber and Stan Lee (plot), art by Paul Reinman; A man falls in love with a middle-aged woman on vacation, but wants a younger wife; He convinces her to let a gypsy magician make her young again. The Man Who Lost the World!, script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.15. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $2.65 INCOMPLETE. Piece missing, interrupts art or story. 7" Spine split from bottom. Staples added (not manufacturing).

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby and Marie Severin (re-touches and additions), inks by Steve Ditko and Marie Severin (re-touches and additions). Gigantus! The Monster That...Walked Like a Man!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko; An advertising man tricks an advance agent of a proposed invasion from Atlantis into returning to Atlantis by building a mannequin even larger than Goliath and threatening to wage war with his people for the surface of Earth. The Frog-Man!, script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; An evil king is turned into a frog by a sorcerer. He hibernates for centuries hoping that the future will hold a cure, but Halloween costumes make him think that humans are now giant frogs and he goes to sleep forever. Barker's Body Shop!, script by Stan Lee (plot) and Larry Lieber (script), art by Sol Brodsky. Dinner Time on Deimos!, script by Stan Lee (plot) and Larry Lieber (script), art by Larry Lieber. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.15. Cover price $0.15.

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First 20-cent issue. Cover pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Frank Giacoia. I Dared to Battle the Crawling Creature!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A teenager mans a drill-pod and finds a primitive tribe and a horrible creature beneath the surface. When Darkness Falls!!, art by Steve Ditko; A man sees mannequins move during the business hours of the store, and stays until closing; When the mannequins step down from their positions he berates them for nearly being caught. The Frightening Fog, script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A mysterious fog envelops the entire world for days, terrifying everyone; It was actually created by benevolent alien peacekeepers to hide Earth from an invasion. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover art by John Severin. The Green Thing!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A botanist invents a serum to magnify the latent intelligence of plants; He tested it on a remote island, but the plant was evil and wanted to conquer the world. The Haunted Paper!, art by Steve Ditko; A criminal skips town and sets up a newspaper as a front; The paper's typesetter writes headlines that seem to predict the future but it's a scam to convince the criminal to turn himself in. The Coming of Maaboo!, art by Don Heck; A mercenary hears of a tribe that hoards gold while waiting for the return of a legendary alien; The mercenary poses as the alien and steals the gold, but he is abducted by the real alien. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover art by John Severin. Kraa the Unhuman, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; An American teacher investigates the mysterious statues made by one tribe in Africa, and finds that they worship a native mutated into a monster by a Soviet atomic test. Meet the Dead, art by Don Perlin; A medium gets her spirit contacts to frame another medium as a fake who is draining away clients from her. Dead Ringer!, script by Mimi Gold, art by Rich Buckler; An escaped death row convict finds that, even on the outside, he cannot run away from his sentence. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover pencils by Jim Starlin. The Sacrifice!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by George Klein; In the year 1971 a man makes the first flight to Mars and finds to his horror that a plant creature has destroyed all life on Mars and demands to be taken to Earth so as to repeat the process. The Red Face; A man arranges for a rival to be murdered at Mardi Gras, but instead of meeting the assassin in a Devil costume, he gets hauled away by the real Devil. The Mask of Morgumm!, art by Don Heck; A harmless-looking criminal decides to buy a frightening mask, but when the store owner tells him he can't have the most frightening he steals it. The Man Who Vanished!, art by Joe Sinnott; An evil old man in a cabin tends plants who used to be people. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover pencils by Jim Starlin, inks by Frank Giacoia. Klagg! His Mission: Destroy Mankind!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; Klagg, an alien who visits Earth, becomes so upset upon learning humanity still wages war that he declares war upon the nations of the Earth. While the Town Sleeps!, art by Kurt Schaffenberger; The statue of the Dutch boy plugs the hole in the dike with his finger. What Happened to Harry?, art by Dick Ayers; A brilliant inventor's boss tries to steal his new time machine in order to take credit for it. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. The Monster Hunts for Me!, script by Larry Lieber and Stan Lee (plot), pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; An old man in a boarding house tells a woman that he is being hunted by a shape-shifting alien. Inside the Flying Saucer!, script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; This story shows an ordinary movie crowd reacting to a film of alien invasion; When the film ends, the people gather their coats and belongings to go home. The Hooded Horror!, script by Stan Lee, pencils by Carmine Infantino, inks by Sy Barry; A gang boss who always wears a hood makes his underlings curious about what lies beneath so one of them uses a knife on him when he's asleep and discovers that the hood really was his head. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby. The Ruler of Earth!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; 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. They Called Her a Witch!, script by Stan Lee, art by Russ Heath; Peasants call an old woman a witch, a man gives her the benefit of the doubt, but it turns out the peasants were right. When the Earth Vanished!, art by Steve Ditko; Tiny alien invaders decide to detonate their ultimate bomb thinking that unobserved Earthlings have gone into hiding to avoid their invasion force and end up blowing up an Earth boy's ping pong ball and themselves as they are caught in the aftershocks of the blast. The Man Who Fell!, art by Paul Reinman; A town's mayor threatens to imprison a gypsy fortune-teller who spurned his advances if her prediction that he will be injured by a fall does not come true. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

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Last 20-cent issue. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. From Out of the Black Pit Came...Grogg!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; Atomic tests conducted by a coerced dissident scientist wake the ancient dragon Grogg; The dragon chases the soldiers into a cave in the mountains and their commander tries to appease it by sending out the scientist. Follow the Leader, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; Space explorers are attacked by alien animals, and only make the situation worse by killing the largest beast, which was actually a robot holding the animals in check. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

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First 25-cent issue. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. I Saw Droom the Living Lizard!, art by Don Heck; A scientist invents a growth serum intended to solve world hunger by enlarging vegetables; A tiny exotic lizard is accidentally soaked by the liquid and grows into a giant lizard that rampages across the country. Where Monsters Prowl, pencils by Bob Brown, inks by Jack Abel; Monsters inhabit the body of a reporter. Tough Guy, art by John Rosenberger; Bart Nelson is too tough for the demons of hell--nothing they do to him has any effect until they come up with a rather unique torment. The Little Monster, pencils by Bill Benulis, inks by Jack Abel; An alien visits a household and gives the couple gifts; He lives in the cellar and dines off passing strangers. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.25. Cover price $0.25.

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Cover pencils by Larry Lieber, inks by Frank Giacoia. Ozamm the Terrible!, script by Stan Lee (plot) and Larry Lieber (script), art by Don Heck; A factory worker laid off to be replaced by a machine foils a seemingly invincible alien by cutting off his power source. A Fate Worse Than Death, art by Seymour Moskowitz. Tennis Anyone?, pencils by Bill Benulis, inks by Jack Abel; A tennis player with poor form beats an expert with a racket consisting of strings of human intestine. The Wax Men, art by Joe Sinnott; A man has dinner every night with wax figures around the table and refers to them as his family. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.25. Cover price $0.25.

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Cover pencils by Larry Lieber and John Romita (alterations), inks by Vince Colletta and John Romita (alterations); The Thing in the Black Box!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A shipwrecked man meets the legendary Pandora, who tricks him into releasing the demons from her box; Humanity is helpless against the demons, but the man forces Pandora to recall them by dispelling her illusory beauty. 13 Years!, art by Bill Savage; A man commits suicide after spending thirteen years of his life waiting for stolen jewels to cool off only to be told they are fake. The Man Who Wasn't, art by Bill Walton; A man invents a youth serum and wishes to give it to the oldest member of an old folks home, but the man doesn't want it. Just Suppose..., art by Tony Mortellaro; A writer finds an alien and makes a pet out of him, but when his fellows come for him, the tables are turned. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.25. Cover price $0.25.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. Gorgolla! The Living Gargoyle!!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; An explorer discovers Gorgolla in the Himalayan Mountains; Gorgolla awakes and captures him, then summons his Stonian brethren to begin their attack on Earth. Genius!, script by Stan Lee, art by Joe Maneely; A super intellect grows tired among life on Earth as mere humans are like children to him when he receives a telepathic message from what appears to be a beautiful woman on Saturn imploring him to build a rocket to journey to her. Beware the Hands of Hundu, art by Don Heck; An arrogant painter is given magic paints by a gypsy; These paints make anything painted with them real, and he uses them to get revenge on a lover who jilted him. Advertisement for Hostess Fruit Pies starring Spider-Man, pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Mike Esposito. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.25. Cover price $0.25.

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The Missing Link!, script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; Scientists find a seemingly primitive man, but they discover that he is really from a future where nuclear war has destroyed civilization. What Lurks Beneath?, pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Mike Esposito; A diver tries to capture mermaids to sell them to zoos, but they capture him instead and place him in an exhibit. The Terrible Fate of Mr. Wren!, art by John Tartaglione; A scientist puts off marrying until he is wealthy because he wants to avoid the mistake of his parents always arguing since they were poor; He becomes wealthy by inventing a matter duplicator device. The Impossible Tunnel!, script by Larry Lieber and Stan Lee (plot), pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; Robert Saunders wants to build a sub-oceanic tunnel from North America to Europe; He discovers a gentle underground civilization. Advertisement for Hostess Twinkies starring Captain Marvel, pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Mike Esposito. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.25. Cover price $0.25.

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Cover pencils by Arvell Jones, inks by Arvell Jones and John Romita. No Human Can Beat Me!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Paul Reinman; An alien lands on Earth and issues a challenge to best any man at any contest or the Earth will be invaded; The alien defeats all comers until one man challenges it to sleep longer than him. Mystery of the Mountain, art by Christopher Rule; Strange explosions at Mt. Rushmore lead a scientist to postulate that people from another dimension, parallel to Earth's, are creating a monument to one of their great men. The Green Man!, art by Al Williamson; Some force on the moon turns an astronaut's face green for twenty-four hours. King of the Glacier Men, pencils by Al Williamson, inks by Ralph Mayo; A European dictator is exiled to the North where he becomes king of the glacier men. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.25. Cover price $0.25.