World of Fantasy
#11
(April 1958)
Marvel,
1956 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Chipiden Publishing Corp.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
Distributed to newsstands in December 1957. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
He Was a Prisoner of the Fantastic Fog!
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Bill Everett ?; Joe Maneely (alterations)
- Inks
- Bill Everett ?; Joe Maneely (alterations)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Sam Morgan
Indexer Notes
Nick Caputo suspects this is an Everett-drawn cover, with the policeman added by Maneely. Cover previously credited to Joe Maneely, pencils and inks.
Prisoner of the Fantastic Fog
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Angelo Torres (signed)
- Inks
- Angelo Torres (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- M-644
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Sam Morgan; Dr. Jerry Morgan
- Synopsis
- A man asks his gangster brother for money to perfect his shrink gas, but when he can't get any, he vents the gas outside, and his brother walks into it and shrinks. He turns himself in to a policeman, but the effect is only temporary since the gas is not perfected.
- Reprints
-
in Weird Planets (Alan Class, 1962 series) #10 ([1962]) -
in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #7 (December 1974) which is reprinted
-
Indexer Notes
Dr. Morgan later appears as one of the Headmen (first in The Defenders (Marvel, 1972 series) #21), villains created by Steve Gerber.
Nightmare at Midnight
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- L-243
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- John; Mike
- Synopsis
- A dream searches for the correct dreamer before midnight, but after trying a couple of sleepers realizes it has made a mistake and dissolves. The man who was supposed to have a dream about falling from a great height was a convict attempting a prison break. Since he had no warning, he attempted to scale the high wall and fell to his death.
- Reprints
- in Weird Planets (Alan Class, 1962 series) #10 ([1962])
- in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #7 (December 1974)
-
The Sinister Stone
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- L-669
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- A thief steals a ruby dedicated to the god of rain, and heavy rains follow him wherever he goes until he decides to return the ruby.
- Reprints
- in Weird Planets (Alan Class, 1962 series) #9 (1962)
- in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #11 (June 1974)
-
He Never Reached the Ground!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- M-550
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Wally Ober; Llada
- Synopsis
- A man falls 35 floors but disappears at ground level just before impact, saved by a Tibetan mystic indebted to his great-grandfather.
- Reprints
- in Weird Planets (Alan Class, 1962 series) #10 ([1962])
- in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #19 (September 1975)
-
He's Coming to Get Me!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- M-645
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Peter Wilcox; Ralph Wilcox
- Synopsis
- A man who cheated his brother out of their father's money gets a letter stating that his brother is "coming to get him." He puts a gun under his jacket since he thinks his brother is out for revenge, but he discards it when his brother leads him to a rocket ship and tells him that he didn't want him to be the last man on Earth.
- Reprints
- in Weird Planets (Alan Class, 1962 series) #10 ([1962])
- in Giant-Size Werewolf (Marvel, 1974 series) #5 (July 1975)
-
Make A Wish
text story / 1.75 pages
- Job Number
- G-301
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Gerald Harper; Jimmy Gordon; Mrs. Gordon; Mr. Gordon
- Synopsis
- A man invents a wishing machine but loses the prototype on the way to the patent office.
- Reprints
- from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #25 (July 1955)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. The last page is split with the statement of ownership.
Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 (Title 39, United States Code, Section 233)
statement of ownership / 0.25 page
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Shares the second page of "Make a Witch!" Average monthly circulation not printed.
The Mad Scientist!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- L-272
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Mark Ferris
- Synopsis
- An old man forces a scientist to use an experimental process to cure a young boy. When he is done, he explains that the scientist’s lab will soon be destroyed and the process lost. He is the future version of the scientist, and the boy is his son.
- Reprints
- in Weird Planets (Alan Class, 1962 series) #10 ([1962])
- in Frankenstein (Marvel, 1973 series) #11 (July 1974) which is reprinted
-
in L'Incroyable Hulk (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #52 ([novembre 1975]) [N&B [B&W]] -
in Hulk (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #13 ([Januar 1975]) -
in Frankenstein (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #5 (2ème trimestre 1976) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]] - in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #34 (2017)
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Table of Contents
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0.
He Was a Prisoner of the Fantastic Fog!
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1.
Prisoner of the Fantastic Fog
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2.
Nightmare at Midnight
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3.
The Sinister Stone
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4.
He Never Reached the Ground!
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5.
He's Coming to Get Me!
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6.
Make A Wish
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7.
Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 (Title 39, United States Code, Section 233)
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8.
The Mad Scientist!
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- Bill Borre
- Nick Caputo
- Gregory Fischer
- Merlin Haas
- Ethan Hoddes
- Hunter Johnson
- Dan Kocher
- Mike Nielsen
- Gregory Roe
- Jim Van Dore
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