Fear (1970 Marvel) comic books 1971-1973

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Giant-size issue. All reprints: Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. All reprints: "Zzutak the Thing That Shouldn't Exist!!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko; An American comic book artist is given magic paints which make whatever is painted with them real; He is compelled to go to Mexico and paint a monster as planned by the Aztec priest who gave him the paints. "I Must Find Korumbu!", art by Steve Ditko; A fat man who wishes to lose weight without giving up overeating goes to Korumbu for a magic potion; Korumbu tells him it is too dangerous at first, but when the fat man threatens to sic the authorities on the gypsy camp, Korumbu gives him the potion. "The Man Who Hated Monstro!", script by Stan Lee (plot) and Larry Lieber (script), art by Paul Reinman; A star acrobat is jealous of a popular gorilla at his circus and torments it; Finally, he arranges for the gorilla to break free so that it will be shot. "The Gentle Old Man!", script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A greedy landlord is captured by a time traveler who maintains a collection of 'dolls' consisting of miniaturized heartless people from different eras. "Journey Into Nowhere!", art by Joe Sinnott; Two scientists working on a time machine have differing opinions about the possibility of traveling into the future; When their attempt to do so seems to take them to the stone age, they believe they have proved travel into the future impossible. "A Monster Waits Outside!!", art by Steve Ditko; An astronaut is sent into orbit in a tiny sphere without communication; He sees a monster trying to claw its way in and panics, signalling ground control to bring him back. "Save Me! Save Me!", art by Paul Reinman; A scientist makes himself able to walk on water in order to steal secret military plans from a ship. "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. "I Dared to Battle...Rorgg King of the Spider Men!!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; Rorgg invades a small New Mexico town and our boy hero kills him dead with a spray can of DDT. 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.25.

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Final giant-size issue. Cover pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Frank Giacoia. "The Midnight Monster," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; When handsome scientist playboy Victor Avery is rejected by a girl he turns himself into a monster to wreak revenge on her fiancé only to become his own victim. "There Is a Brain Behind the Fangs!", art by Don Heck; A man is convinced that dogs are secretly planning to take over the world; His friend the psychiatrist convinces him otherwise by showing that his dog cannot understand complex questions, even under hypnosis. "I Took a Journey Into Fear!", art by Steve Ditko; A man thinks he has traveled through time with the "time machine" he built but the shock he receives from it when he throws the switch unhinges his mind and when the men with the white coats come to take him away he perceives them as barbarians of an earlier age. "Wings of the Butterfly!", art by Joe Sinnott; In the year 2050 Eric Krane is a spaceman who collects butterflies only to find himself trapped on planet where butterflies collect men. "The Last Laugh!", script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A practical joker suffers the ultimate practical joke--after his death. "The Black Ray," art by Paul Reinman; An imprisoned criminal scientist pretends to make a medical device which is in fact a time machine; He sends his mind into the past to inhabit the body of 'the richest man' but is imprisoned once more, as the Count of Monte Cristo. "The Voice of Fate!", art by Don Heck; The Fates make a wager over whether humans will ever understand that they cannot escape them; One of them tells a jewel thief that he will be punished, but he defies fate and flees the country, thinking that since the US is in World War II he will never be found and punished in Hiroshima. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.25.

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Cover art by Gray Morrow. "Man-Thing!", script by Gerry Conway, pencils by Howard Chaykin, inks by Gray Morrow; The Man-Thing discovers an infant being abandoned in the swamp, prompting it to seek retribution for the heinous act. "The Spell of the Sea Witch!" starring Iron Man, Thor and Captain America, script by Allyn Brodsky, pencils by Jack Katz (as "Jay Hawk"), inks by Bill Everett (as "Black Bill"). "There Is Something Strange About Mister Jones!", art by Don Heck; A thug hears a man say that he has a fortune in his locker. He attacks him and tries to make him lead him there. His victim is Davy Jones, and he shows the thief his locker by drowning him. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover art by Neal Adams. "Night of the Nether-Spawn!", script by Steve Gerber, pencils by Rich Buckler, inks by Jim Mooney; Man-Thing battles Thog the Nether-Spawn, who makes his first appearance; Jennifer Kale also makes her first appearance; Steve Gerber's first full story as a professional writer. "The Spider Waits," art by Fred Kida; Sven's childhood fear of spiders turns to enjoyment as he kills them indiscriminately at his factory cleaning job; He meets a woman who is actually a human spider who lures him into her web, literally. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover pencils by Jim Starlin, inks by Herb Trimpe. "No Choice of Colors!", script by Steve Gerber, pencils by Jim Starlin, inks by Rich Buckler; Wallace Corlee the hateful, racist sheriff of Topequa, Florida, pursues a black man named Mark Jackson into the swamplands outside of town; Corlee shoots Jackson in the shoulder, but the refugee manages to evade capture until he finally collapses from exhaustion; When he revives he finds the Man-Thing standing in front of him; He tells the Man-Thing that the sheriff framed him for a burglary and is chasing him because Mark was romantically involved with a white woman. "The Face of Horror," script by Stan Lee, art by Russ Heath; Derck Winters is possibly the ugliest man in the world; Trapped within a sad existence, Derck's shame prevents him from forming any social bonds including friendships, romantic relationships or the ability to hold a job; He once consulted a plastic surgeon, but the doctor told him that there was only man in the world skillful enough to change his face. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover pencils by Rich Buckler, inks by Frank Giacoia. "Where Worlds Collide!", script by Steve Gerber, pencils by Val Mayerik, inks by Frank Bolle; When Jennifer Kale's grandfather and his cult prepare to defend the Earth with the help of the Tome of Zhared-Na and the Man-Thing, they discover the book is missing, leading the other cult members to believe that the elder Kale stole the book; Nobody is wise to the fact that Jennifer, in her previous encounter with the Man-Thing was forced to burn the book; When she relates to the story to her ex-boyfriend Jaxon, he scoffs at the story and decides to explore the swamp, in spite of her best warnings; Jaxon is then possessed by a demon that appears in the swamp. "Mister Black," art by Bob Forgione; A Japanese youth doesnt want to fight in the Second World War and so a mysterious figure named Mr. Black saves him by causing him to be found physically unfit; He is thrilled, but he was only saved so he will be where he was fated to be in 1945, in Hiroshima. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover art by Alan Weiss. "The Demon Plague," script by Steve Gerber, pencils by Val Mayerik, inks by Chic Stone; Across the country, people begin committing wanton acts of violence; Children begin trying to kill one another; An underpaid secretary karate kicks her employer. A traveling salesman tries to run down an innocent couple; In the Florida Everglades, Joshua Kale and his children Jennifer and Andy watch news reports detailing the strange outbreaks of violence; Kale realizes that these seemingly unrelated incidents are in connection with the takeover of human minds and souls by demons of the underworld; He decides to assemble his cult; The cult meets in the swamp and Kale prepares a ritual that he hopes will block the demons' entry to the Earth realm. Jennifer and Andy sit nearby and watch the spectacle; The Man-Thing is likewise nearby and shambles close to them. "Listen, You Fool," art by Paul Reinman; Albert Rudley suspects that his wife Rita has been trying to murder him; Though he suffers from poor hearing, his hearing aid enables him to overhear his wife conspiring with their chauffeur Vincent; Albert learns that the recent string of "near accidents" that he has suffered were actually plots to end his life; Later, Rita asks her husband to go on a boating trip to Canada. Albert knows that she intends on capsizing the boat in the hopes that he will drown, so he takes measures to prevent this. He poisons her drink with a drug that will cause paralysis once she enters the water. Letter from comics writer Roger Slifer. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover art by Frank Brunner. "From Here to Infinity!", script by Steve Gerber, pencils by Val Mayerik, inks by Frank McLaughlin; With the world still gone mad, the Kales are alerted by a member of Jennifer's grandfather's cult that the Man-Thing is running amok in the city; Travelling there, they witness the Man-Thing seemingly drop dead; Taking him back to the Kale home, Joshua Kale tells everyone the origins of the Tome of Zhered-Na, which has its origins stemming from Ancient Atlantis; Dahkim appears and takes Jennifer and Man-Thing to an extra-dimensional nexus to try and recover the Tome, battling various forces of the demons of Sominus in the process. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover art by Frank Brunner. "Cry of the Native!", script by Steve Gerber, pencils by Val Mayerik, inks by Sal Trapani; When industrialist F.A. Schist plans on tearing down part of the swamp to build a new airport, the local Native American's that live on the land try to sabotage the construction vehicles, and one of them is shot; Witnessing the spectacle, the Man-Thing brings the wounded Native to the home of a doctor who begins treating the wounded man; In the following days, opposition and protests over Schist's plans begin to mount, however nothing seems to sway Schist from stopping his development plans; However, when the workers begin to tear up the land, it brings about the Man-Thing which tries to stop them from continuing their construction; The workers try to kill the Man-Thing. Letters page features a scientific explanation of Man-Thing's burning ability. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover art by Frank Brunner. "It Came Out of the Sky!", script by Steve Gerber, pencils by Val Mayerik, inks by Sal Trapani; The Man-Thing stumbles across an alien ship that has crashed in the swamp; Inside is Wundarr, an alien from another planet which was doomed to explode. Wundarr's parents, wanting their son to survive sent him into space in a rocket, hoping their boy would find a new home; That home turned out to be Earth, but when Wundarr crash landed, he was not found for many years and grew to adulthood without any sort of education; Freed by the Man-Thing, the now infantile adult of Wundarr begins to explore this strange new world, and his super-human abilities; Wundarr's curiosity and inability to understand his own actions prompts the Man-Thing to believe he is being attacked, and the two end up in a battle which takes them into the town of Citrusville, where the two combat each other; Wundarr, making his first appearance, is a take-off on Superman; His next appearance is in Marvel Two-In-One #2. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover art by John Romita. "A Question of Survival!", script by Steve Gerber, pencils by Val Mayerik, inks by Sal Trapani; Ralph Sorrell is on his way home after having a few too many drinks, causing him to get into a car crash with a passenger bus; Both vehicles crash into the nearby swamp; The entire accident is viewed by the Man-Thing, who silently watches the events unfold; Most people on the bus die, while Ralph survives; Among the few survivors from the bus are Mary Brown, soldier Jim Arsdale, student Holden Crane, and a young boy named Kevin Kennerman; When Kevin is pinned in the wreckage of the bus, Holden refuses to help; Holden claims being "against life," causing friction among the survivors; The Man-Thing arrives, lifts up the wreckage, and frees the boy to the shock and awe of the other survivors. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.20.

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1st appearance of Howard the Duck - Cover pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Ernie Chan. "The Enchanter's Apprentice!", script by Steve Gerber, pencils by Val Mayerik, inks by Sal Trapani; As an improbable battle rages on below the castle, Man-Thing is picked up by Jennifer Kale, with the savage Korrek following from behind; Korrek catches up with Kale and the Man-Thing and attacks the two of them; Jennifer suddenly awakens screaming, and as her brother and grandfather burst into the room to reassure her it's all a dream; However, Joshua Kale has his doubts that his granddaughters nightmares being just dreams; His suspicions are validated when Korrek is transported to Earth's dimension through a jar of peanut butter and resumes his attack on Jennifer; However, when Joshua and Andy burst into the room, Korrek believes himself surrounded and flees into the swamp; The Kales are soon visited by Dahkim the Mystic who has come to tell the Kales about the disruption in the Nexus of Realities caused by the construction being done in the swamp; Korrek is visited by Howard the Duck, who has also found himself transported to Earth's dimension as well. Man-Thing stories continue in Man-Thing #1. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.20.