Where Monsters Dwell (1970) comic books 1971-1973

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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 Marie Severin, inks by Bernie Wrightson. Look Out!! Here Come the...Four-Armed Men!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; An explorer learns of an invasion of four-armed aliens; His nurse tells him his bodyguard is one of the aliens, but he realizes that she is the real alien. The Silent Screen, script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; An infinite loop story about a monster who repeatedly steps out of a movie screen. Run, Rocky, Run!, art by Bob Forgione; A criminal on the run plans to stow-away on the experimental rocket he reads about, but finds out too late that is an advanced miniature rocket that cannot carry a pilot. Dream World!, script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A man repeatedly dreams that his bed is levitating, and cant tell if hes dreaming or not. 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.

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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). 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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Last 15-cent issue. Cover art by Steve Ditko and Marie Severin. Gruto! The Creature from Nowhere!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; 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. We Were Trapped with the Silent Monster!, art by Don Heck; Against expert opinion, an engineer digs a mine to the center of the Earth and finds dragons; He collapses the mine himself to allow his workers to escape. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.15. Cover price $0.15.

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Giant-size issue. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by George Klein. Orogo!! The Nightmare from Outer Space!!, art by Don Heck; An alien robot arrives to hypnotically enslave the people of Earth, but is stopped when it cannot hypnotize one old man, a blind man. The Earth-Crawlers!, art by Steve Ditko; An inventor with a nagging wife must prevent giant roots resulting from a witch doctor's curse from overrunning Africa; He then turns to inventing a device which will harness the power of his wife's voice. The Metal Monster, art by Paul Reinman; An American engineer ignores the warnings of locals and builds a road through a Gypsy-inhabited wood. The Last Voyage of Captain Kragg, art by Steve Ditko. The Pretender!, art by Paul Reinman; A man looking through an abandoned house find notes in an alien language. Quogg!, script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko. The Black Clock!, art by Don Heck. All reprints. 52 pgs. $0.25. Cover price $0.15.

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.

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.

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.

Cover pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Vince Colletta. Beware of Googam, Son of Goom!!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; Goom leaves an offspring in a cave to complete his conquest, and the son comes across the family of the scientist who was responsible for his father's defeat. He Who Laughs Last, Gets...The Horselaugh; A man who plays the rear end in a dummy horse act is jealous of the man who plays the head, so he kills him and when he returns to the stage that night, is trampled by the front part of the costume. I Am... Gorak!, art by Steve Ditko; A famous magician is enraged when his power is questioned, and he reveals that the whole world is an illusion, and only he is real; He even confronts the reader, but fades away as the story ends. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Vince Colletta. I Opened the Door to...Nowhere!, art by Steve Ditko; A thief forces a shop owner to hide him in a back room, but finds himself opening doors without rest for years. If the Coat Fits, script by Jack Oleck, art by Russ Heath; A man leaves a coat with a pawn shop owner that transports the wearer into another dimension and replaces them with a shadow person. 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. The Hidden Vampires, art by Tony DiPreta; When a village has been sucked nearly dry of blood by undetected vampires, a vampire stalker arrives with his helpers, a black box filled with hungry mosquitoes. 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 Gil Kane, inks by John Romita. The Insect Man, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A soldier is placed underground in a capsule to test the effects of isolation; He is attacked by a telepathic insect. Beware...the Ticking Clocks!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A king is beset by an assassin in the king's clockroom whereupon the assassin is transformed into yet another figurine upon the king's favorite timepiece. Something Lurks in the Fog!, art by Don Heck; An unrepentant con-man is scared straight when he strays onto a forbidden road and enters a world between life and death. Long Live the King!, script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A greedy prince marries a dowager queen; He tries to use her sleepwalking to cause her death, but the portrait of her husband calls out to warn her, and ghostly hands push the prince to his death. 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. Fin Fang Foom!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A young historian from Taiwan is scorned by his father for his refusal to join the army, even in the face of an imminent communist invasion; Instead of fighting directly, he crosses to the mainland to awake the dragon Fin Fang Foom. Haunted!, art by Vic Carrabotta; A ghost scares off potential buyers of a derelict house. The Clutching Hands, art by Cal Massey; A writer murders another writer to steal his work, but the dead writer's hands continue to make trouble for him. All reprints. 36 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. Elektro! He Held a World in His Iron Grip!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A scientist creates a computer so sophisticated that it can out think human beings; It hypnotizes the scientist into building it a huge robot body so that it can move and conquer the world. I Found the Girl in the Blue Glass Bottle!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A curio shop owner uses an ancient magic bottle to shrink people, but one of his victims turns the magic of the bottle on him and escapes, as the shop owner shrinks to nothing. The Demon in the Dungeon!, art by Don Heck; A novelist rents a castle in Transylvania, where the locals believe a demon lives; He discovers that the creature is a lost alien child. 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, inks by Christopher Rule. I Was Trapped By the Things on Easter Island!, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Christopher Rule; A pilot crash lands on Easter Island where he observes the statues rise out of the ground and discuss invasion plans of their home planet and the enslavement of Earthmen. The Ape Man, art by Steve Ditko; A criminal hopes that the story of an ape man in the jungle surrounding his prison will prevent pursuit; Instead he discovers that the ape man is real. The Spice of Life!, art by Al Eadeh; The fantastically wealthy Ed Bean finds everything he has done in his life frightfully boring (even murder); He offers a million dollars to anyone who can come up with something he hasn't done. The Monster Escapes!, script by Larry Lieber and Stan Lee (plot), pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; An alien planning to invade Earth crash lands and tries to find a rocket to escape; Instead, he accidentally conceals himself in an airtight time capsule and suffocates. 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.