Strange Tales (1951-1976 1st Series) comic books 1959-1961

Prototype issue (Quicksilver). Cover art by Joe Sinnott. "Trapped Between Two Worlds!", art by Steve Ditko; A scientist working on a matter transporting device accidentally transports himself to a distant planet of warlike aliens; They read his mind in order to use his device for conquest. "I Seek the Sea Serpent," art by Don Heck; A scientist tracks down a sea serpent, but the crew of his ship panics and kills it. "I Was the Invisible Man!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Christopher Rule; A scientist uses a device that makes the particles of a living body move at the speed of light, rendering him invisible to the eye; He conducts a series of stunts in order to build up a name for himself so he can them go public and cash in. "Discovery" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "The Man Who Never Was!", art by Carl Burgos; A scientist's assistant uses a time machine to travel to the past in order to find a pirate's treasure and get rich; While in the past he is attacked by the pirates. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Christopher Rule. "Last Warning--Evacuate Earth!", art by Joe Sinnott; A gaseous alien arrives on Earth to warn people to evacuate before its race invades; It attempts to communicate with humans telepathically, but they disregard his warning as madness or a trick. "Mystery Trip" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "The Creatures from the Bottomless Pit!", art by Steve Ditko; A man descends in a bathysphere into a pit so deep that he is surprised to find a waterless cavern beneath it occupied by elves banished long ago by a wizard. "Test Pilot!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Christopher Rule; A rocketship test pilot in the year 2089 takes an experimental rocket on a test flight; He faces an oxygen leak caused by a collision, alien raiders and other hazards before returning safely to Earth. "Next Stop—Mars!", art by Carl Burgos; A short child mocked for his height takes comfort from his one friend and his love of airplanes; He is rejected by the air force because of his height, but when his friend designs an experimental rocket that can only be piloted by a short man he becomes the first man on Mars. "Trapped In Tomorrow!", art by John Buscema; A man spends twenty years building a time machine in order to use knowledge of the future to enrich himself; He travels to 2010 and memorizes stock market and horse race information from the newspaper archives. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Prototype issue (Professor X). Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Christopher Rule. "The Man In The Iron Box!", art by Carl Burgos; Certain that the world will soon descend into nuclear war, a brilliant scientist goes into cryogenic suspension for a million years, hoping to awaken in a more enlightened time. "The Talent" text story. "Rocket Ship X-200," art by Don Heck; An aging space pilot is mocked for his slow ship, but when an invading armada approaches Earth his ship is the first to see it. "Journey into Nowhere!", art by Joe Sinnott; Two scientists try to travel to the future, but arrive in the stone age; They believe they have proved travel into the future impossible, not suspecting that they actually saw the world after the destruction of civilization by war. "The World That Was Lost!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Christopher Rule; An old eccentric in a wheelchair hires a sea captain to take him to a spot where he believes that the lost continent of Atlantis lies; When they reach their destination he reveals himself to be a merman and thanks the sailors for bringing him home before diving overboard. "The Threat from the 5th Dimension!", art by Steve Ditko; The 5th dimension is the dream dimension; The creatures there are trying to pass into this dimension, but belief in their existence as opposed to surmising a mere dream experience disrupts the structure of the dream dimension. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Prototype issue (Giant Man). Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "A Giant Walks the Earth!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Christopher Rule; A short lab assistant works on a growth serum to gain a normal man's height; The serum works too well, and he continues to grow so tall his life is endangered when the air becomes too thin to breathe. "The Comic" text story. "Earth in Chains!", art by Paul Reinman; Aliens from the planet Regulus colonize Earth, treating humans as little more than animals; They must withdraw only because of their vulnerability to Earth's germs. "Ghost Ship!", art by Carl Burgos; The US Coast Guard finds an abandoned Soviet submarine; The log book shows that they mistook an alien craft for an experimental American ship and tried to ram it. "Escape to Tomorrow!", art by Paul Reinman; A criminal hears of the invention of a time machine; He robs a bank and then escapes 50 years into the future; Once there, he discovers that under the new world government, US money is useless. "When Wakes the Sphinx!", art by Steve Ditko; An Egyptian and a tourist see the Sphinx come to life and chase off Alien invaders. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Jack Davis. "I Dared to Defy Merlin's...Black Magic!", art by Steve Ditko; An American businessman scoffs at a shopowner's claim that one of his books was Merlin's diary, until a terrifying vision of Merlin turns his hair white. "The Disappearance" text story. "I Am the Man Who Will...Destroy Your World!", art by Don Heck; An alien emperor of an immortal race comes to Earth disguised as a human to decide whether or not to order an invasion; He is impressed with the humans' decency and falls in love with a human girl. "When the Saucer Strikes!", art by Paul Reinman; A airline pilot is nearly hit by a flying saucer and must bank suddenly to avoid it; The passengers were mostly asleep, and the one who was awake says that he saw nothing...because he's really a Martian tourist and the saucer came to pick him up. "I Fought the Man Who Couldn't Be Killed!", art by Sol Brodsky; A criminal escapes from prison after 10 years and robs a warehouse; He is found by a police officer with superhuman powers, and is surprised to learn that the police now only recruit robots. "I Am the Man Without a Face!", art by Joe Sinnott; A bigot rounds up some thugs to don black hoods and drive some harmless gypsies out of town; One of the gypsies curses him, and he is never able to remove his hood for the rest of his life. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Christopher Rule. "I Fought the Colossus!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko; An advanced supercomputer turns Earth into a utopia, but suspicion remains, only to be inflamed when it is found to be building a giant robot. "Weather Man" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "I Was Trapped on the Ghost Ship!", art by Don Heck; A cruel sea captain greedily pursues the flying Dutchman; He catches the ship, but is trapped there as a ghost, replacing the former ghost, who now can go free. "I Am the Abominable Snowman!", art by Paul Reinman; A thief steals a ruby from a Himalayan retreat, but a curse on the stone makes him intensely cold and forces him to wear heavy furs that keep him from returning to civilization. "I Saw the Elephants' Graveyard!", art by John Forte; An ivory hunter searches for the legendary spot where elephants go to die, but he finds that the spot is an inaccessible pit of quicksand. "I Entered the...Doorway to Doom!", art by Steve Ditko; A Russian farmer becomes a gold miner and uncovers a doorway into a dimension of malevolent beings. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Prototype issue (Ant-Man). Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Bill Everett. "Grottu, King of the Insects!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Bill Everett; A journalist and an archaeologist go to Africa and find an atomically mutated giant ant with super-intelligence; The giant ant tries to lead an army of insects to world conquest. "I Saw the End of the World!", art by Steve Ditko; A scientist builds a time machine and uses it to travel into the future against the advice of his peers; He finds that time is an infinite loop. "The Tree" text story. "I Was Captured by the Mole Men!", art by Don Heck; A subway train full of people is hijacked and held by a subterranean race; The police fight the creatures and retrieve the train. "I Am a Walking Time Bomb," art by Paul Reinman; A robot is sent to Earth by alien conquerors to force them to surrender or be destroyed. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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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; A student finds that gargoyles are really a hidden alien race preparing to conquer the world but when their leader summons them they turn on him, having learned to appreciate humanity. "The Whirlpool of Gairloch" text story. "Beware the Hands of Hundu," art by Don Heck; A gypsy gives magic paints that make anything painted with them real to an arrogant painter; He uses them to get revenge on a lover who jilted him but eventually his ambitions lead to his death. "I Was Trapped in the Nightmare World," art by Paul Reinman; A man travels to a frightening world of dreams and is attacked by dream beings; He discovers that the dream people believe his world is the source of nightmares and that its inhabitants are imaginary. "When the Totem Walks!", art by Steve Ditko; Two convicts escape and terrorize a nearby Indian tribe; The chieftain defends his tribe by using his magic to bring a totem pole to life to chase the two all the way back to prison. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Prototype issue (Iron Man). Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. "Taboo! The Thing From Murky Swamp!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A popular adventure writer finds a giant mud creature from another planet stranded in a Brazilian swamp; The alien tricks him into bringing all Earth's scientific records for nefarious purposes, but is destroyed by an H-bomb hidden with the records. "The Return of the Totem!", art by Steve Ditko; The totem frightens the two convicts into a state of shock, but then goes on a rampage through the reservation and a nearby town; The chieftain concocts a potion to destroy the totem. "The Strange Stone" text story. "Doomsday!", art by Paul Reinman; Two scientists accidentally release a gas that will kill all life on Earth; An unnatural wind disperses the gas, convincing one of the scientists of the others belief in a higher power. "I Made The Hulk Live" (not the superhero, but a robot), art by Don Heck; A short and bitter scientist is obsessed with building a powerful giant robot body; He traps himself inside without the means to activate the robot, living out his life on the food which he'd stored inside. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Prototype issue (Human Torch). Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "I Am Dragoom! The Flaming Invader!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A flaming alien monster terrorizes Earth; A movie director fools him by using special effects to fake the arrival of police from Vulcan in pursuit of the monster, frightening him away. "The Pact" text story. "Beware!! The Ghosts Surround Me!!", art by Don Heck; A fugitive hides in an abandoned house, but aliens from another dimension appear to him; They cannot hurt him, but instead they phase him into an immaterial state and leave him there forever. "The Dummy and Me!", art by Paul Reinman; Some gangsters come for a ventriloquist who has unpaid gambling debts; They corner him in the alley and shoot him. "I Found the Mad Universe!", art by Steve Ditko; A scientist uses a powerful new microscope to discover an entire world existing at the sub-atomic level; He is horrified to find that this world, Earth, is just as barbaric and violent as his own. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "The Return of Taboo!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; After his apparent destruction, Taboo reconstitutes himself and runs amok; He is eventually stopped by the arrival of others from his world. "Mystery Pupil" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "I Am the Beast-Man!", art by Don Heck; A criminal transforms himself into a dog in order to escape from burglaries unnoticed; He must return home quickly or be stuck as a dog, but is picked up by a dog catcher and trapped in the pound. "The Strange Magic of Master Khan!", art by Steve Ditko; A pirate steals the ship of an Asian sorcerer; The ship's owner curses the thieves, shrinking the ship and imprisoning them in a glass bottle. "Am I the...Unhuman?", art by Paul Reinman; A scientist in builds a robot identical to himself, and programs it with his own memories; When robots are banned, the robot believes that it is the real person, and its creator the duplicate. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by George Klein. "A Martian Walks Among Us!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A man spots upon a Martian in human form scouting for an invasion; The police wont believe him, so he finds and kills the spy himself, revealing that he is a Venusian in disguise working to protect Earth. "Trouble Bubble," art by Joe Maneely; A boy discovers a formula to blow unbreakable bubbles and accidentally entraps his father's boss. "The Fantastic Menace of Mento the Mighty," art by Don Heck; A scientist discovers his own innate psychic power and builds a machine to slowly enhance it; He is nearly omnipotent after more than a decade. "The Gargoyle!", art by Paul Reinman; An ugly man rejected by society applies for a job at a circus; It turns out to be a ruse by aliens who are uniformly gorgeous, and so want a man with an ugly face they find fascinating to marry their queen. "Dear Reader: What Would You Have Done if You Were the… Worm Man," art by Steve Ditko (Ant-Man prototype); A spy calling himself 'Worm Man' uses shrinking pills to easily discover military secrets; On a crucial mission, he is attacked by a rat and loses his growth pills, trapping him forever in his tiny form. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. "I Was in the Clutches of the Living Shadow," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A writer witnesses the landing of two-dimensional alien warriors disguised as shadows; The writer escapes and warns the authorities in time for the shadow warriors to be uncovered and driven away. "Music Master" text story. "The Ghost of Grismore Castle!", art by Steve Ditko (Dr. Strange prototype); A practical jokester tricks his friend into fleeing a haunted house only to be attacked by real ghosts; He promises never to play a prank again while his friend, actually a ghost, watches approvingly. "I Found the Perfect Hiding Place!", art by Paul Reinman; A burglar plans to steal the crown jewels and then use a time machine to escape into the past; Instead, he is stranded in a hideous alternate world with no human civilization. "The Thing on the Moon," art by Don Heck; Earth sends an expedition to the moon looking for a place to settle; They find a fertile valley and a robot left by the ancient empire of Atlantis to mark their claim to the moon. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. "What? What? What Was Gargantus!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko; A deep sea explorer encounters a giant reptile that follows him back to the surface; The creature explores the surface, causing panic. "Time Machine" text story. "The Things from Dimension X!", art by Don Heck; A scientist successfully creates a link to the dimension Electra only to find the inhabitants bent on conquest. "The Door They Dare Not Open!", art by Paul Reinman; A prison warden treats inmates with kindness, and relies on an honor system to prevent them from opening the one closed door. "Trapped in the Room of Shadows," art by Steve Ditko; A millionaire looks for magical wishing stones with which he hopes to help all humanity; His greedy guide tries to steal the first stone, but only succeeds in using up its power and trapping himself. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "The Scarecrow Walks!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A landlord cheats poor farmers out of their land in order to sell it for nuclear tests; Radiation animates the farmers' abandoned scarecrow. "Mystery Trip," art by Joe Maneely; Tommy's uncle returns from a space journey needing to re-learn how to walk on earth instead of floating. "A Giant There Was!", art by Don Heck; A criminal steals beans that grow into a beanstalk leading to the land of giants; He tries to rob a castle, but he is caught and imprisoned with other criminals. "I Went Too Far Back!", art by Paul Reinman; A scientist's assistant travels to the past with a gun to rule a pre-technology world; Instead he finds that time is a loop, and when he travels back too far he finds himself a thousand years in the future. "The Thing in the Cell!", art by Steve Ditko; A corrupt police chief uses fines to fund a giant prison in order to increase his prestige; He jails a passerby for no reason, but is shocked to find that he is an alien leader. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "The Thing Called...It!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A scientist builds a creature to kill a rival, but it refuses to obey; Its creator turns the local people against it. "The Utopia" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "The World Beyond," art by Steve Ditko; A scientist creates a pill to shrink himself to subatomic size, convinced that whole other worlds exist at microscopic levels; His pill works, and he vanishes into a whole new world called Earth. "Fangs of the Monster," art by Don Heck; A cruel hunter pursues a sea monster for sport, but finds himself at its mercy; The creature is intelligent and telepathically berates the hunter. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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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; A reluctant Soviet scientist wakes the ancient dragon Grogg with atomic tests; The dragon attacks the soldiers and gives the scientist the opportunity to defect to the US. "Make a Wish" text story. "Masquerade Party," art by Steve Ditko; A beautiful but vicious socialite spoils the plans of an old rival by throwing a masquerade party; She is scared by her rivals husband, who tricks her into thinking he is a demon. "The Menace of Shandu!", art by Don Heck; A boy finds a magic book in a used bookstore and summons a genie, which vows to torture him after granting his wish; He wishes for everything to be restored to before he went to the bookshop. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "The Wonder of the Ages!!! Magneto!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers (prototype of the X-Men's Magneto); A strong man is exploited and abandoned, unable to find work except in a freak show; His size makes him the perfect pilot for an experimental space flight, on which he gains magnetic powers. "The Inventor" text story. "Twelve Silent Men!", art by Paul Reinman; A greedy lawyer steals a time machine in order to profit from knowledge from the future; Once there he is tried for stealing the machine. "They Met on Mars!", art by Steve Ditko; Two beings in grotesque space suits fight on Mars; One of them destroys the other's ship and escapes, with the two never knowing that they were both humans: one from the US, one from the USSR. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "The Return of Gargantus!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; Another group of scientists disturbs Gargantus, who can now breathe air and vows to conquer the surface world; The son of the man who found Gargantus uses his father's bathysphere to lure it deep into the ocean and uses a giant electric shock to kill him. "New Glasses" text story. "The Man Who Fell!", art by Paul Reinman; A town's mayor threatens to imprison a gypsy seer who spurned his advances if her prediction that he will be injured by a fall does not come true; He goes to the basement and has himself tied down to prevent this. "The Ape Man," art by Steve Ditko; A criminal hopes that the story of an ape man in the jungle around his prison will stop pursuit; Instead he finds that the ape man is real and a curse transforms him into an ape until he finds someone to take his place. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "I Created Mechano!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A giant robot goes out of control and attacks people, but its creators try to prevent the authorities from destroying it; They encounter a group of alien invaders who were not prepared to face a robot and are driven away. "Discovery" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "Georgie's Globe!", art by Steve Ditko; A clumsy boy has a globe which seems to mirror damage done to it in the real world; When the globe is smashed a mysterious force intervenes and a faraway dead world explodes. "Beware of Meeks Bringing Gifts!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Sol Brodsky; Aliens arrive on Earth and give Earth advanced devices that eliminate poverty and conflict; A journalist forces one of them to admit at gunpoint on the air that they are planning an invasion. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "The Return of...Grogg!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; Koslov is sent back to Russia as a spy, and discovers that the dragon Grogg is still on the loose; He lures Grogg into a Soviet rocket and launches it on its mission to Mars, knowing that if the Soviets ever travel to Mars they will find an enraged dragon. "Peril on Paper" text story. "The Lighthouse from Nowhere!", art by Steve Ditko; A lighthouse appears by a village, but their teacher feels they shouldnt use it unearned and destroys it; They build a new one, never knowing that the first was a beacon for an alien invasion, now aborted. "The Macabre Mirror!", art by Don Heck; A greedy duke taxes his people into poverty; When he ignores a gypsy's warnings and tries to seize her ancient mirror he finds himself imprisoned within it forever, freeing his subjects. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Auction Item: GD+ 2.5 View scans 9 bids Current bid: $28.00 Time left: 2d 1h 25m 1/2" Cumulative spine split. Centerfold detached at one staple.	Add to cart CBCS 5.0 $189.99 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #17-2a310f7-025 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.	Add to cart VG 4.0 $112.00 View scans Cover oxidation. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.	Add to cart CGC 4.0 $120.00 View scans Paper: White Label #4398082002 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. "Zzutak the Thing That Shouldn't Exist!!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko; An American comic book artist is forced by an Aztec priest to make a monster with magic paints; The artist creates another monster to fight the first, causing the temple to collapse on both monsters. "Snowstorm" text story. "The Lifeless Man!", art by Steve Ditko; A young boy prefers an old wooden toy soldier to more modern toys; His friends make fun of the toy, but when they are threatened by a bear the soldier seems to drive it off with its rifle. "Punishment!", art by Don Heck; An advanced civilization sends a mugger to a prison planet; Only a few moments on this world full of war, crime and disease make him go straight in order to avoid ever again coming back to Earth. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 6.0 $3,200.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #00-0009861-AA-023

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $900.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #1211440002

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $975.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #3694849015 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. 1st appearance of Fin Fang Foom in "Fin Fang Foom!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A young historian from Taiwan crosses to the mainland to awake the dragon Fin Fang Foom and foil a communist invasion; He lures the dragon to the coast to wreck the invasion fleet. "The Future" text story. "The Green Things!", script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A wealthy retiree keeps a magnificent greenhouse, where he talks to the plants; When a burglar tries to kill him, his plants come to life and stop the intruder, saving their friend's life. "The Touch of Midas!", art by Paul Reinman; A greedy man locates the source of Midass power, planning to stop the undesirable effects with gloves; He gains the power but finds that his gloves turn to gold, dooming him to the same fate as Midas. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $120.00 View scans Paper: White Label #4398082003 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $80.00 View scans Cover oxidation. Slight smoke damage. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $210.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #0221450005 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $67.00 View scans Cover detached at one staple. Cover oxidation. Water damage. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by George Klein. "Orrgo... The Unconquerable!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; An alien race with immense telepathic and telekinetic powers send one of their kind to conquer Earth; He easily defeats the police and army and freezes Washington, DC in a block of ice. "Special Sale" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "A Thousand Years Later...," script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A scientist prolongs his life for a thousand years, outliving all his friends as Earth becomes overpopulated; When Earth is abandoned he stays behind with one young woman. "The Inhuman!", art by Don Heck; In a war against robots, the robots try to find a way to break the human defenses by sending a robot spy disguised as a human; The spy leads them into a trap, and they discover that their spy was a human disguised as a robot. "Germ Warfare," art by Paul Reinman; A medical researcher on a boat enlarges a germ to human size, causing it to attack him and hijack the boat; The germ lands on an island in order to make an army of enlarged germs. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $190.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #0354178002 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $110.00 View scans Paper: White Label #4398082004 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "The Sacrifice!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by George Klein; 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. "Strange Mission" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "The Coming of the Giants," art by Paul Reinman; 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 Mask of Morgumm!", art by Don Heck; 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. "The Warning!", script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; 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. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.