Strange Worlds #5

(August 1959)

We Are the 3 Who Vanished! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Don Heck

Inks:

Don Heck

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Roger; Clark; Dave

Synopsis:

Three scientists disappear without a trace, leaving a journal explaining that they were working on a time machine. The police never know what happened, because the time machine succeeded, but transformed the three men into three seventeenth-century scientists thinking about a time machine, unaware of their true identities.

Reprints:

• in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #63

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the third person.

The Holiday (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

G-790

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Zed; Zack

Synopsis:

A boy celebrates the turn of the millenium with a special trip to the moon.

Reprints:

• from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #40 (October 1955)

Reprint Note before Migration:

• from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #40 (October 1955)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

I Couldn't Stop the Runaway Comet! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks:

Steve Ditko (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-333

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Victor Sage

Synopsis:

In the year 2060 a vain elected official feels that the forces of science will be sufficient to deal with the menace of an impending comet but everything they try to either destroy or divert the comet fails. Finally all humanity, including the official, turn to prayer, and the comet is swept aside from its collision course with Earth.

Reprints:

• in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #63

I Am...Gorilla! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee ?

Pencils:

Paul Reinman (signed)

Inks:

Paul Reinman (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-318

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Bongo

Synopsis:

An atomic explosion makes a gorilla as intelligent as a human. It is overjoyed, and plans to conquer mankind or to teach humans through dialogue, but its artificial intelligence quickly dissipates.

Reprints:

• in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #59
• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #157 (?), #223

Reprint Note before Migration:

• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #157
• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #223

Indexer Notes

No narration. This story is retold in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #83 (August 1962) as "When the Jungle Sleeps", by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, with a lion instead of an ape. Reprint credit from Steve Jenner. Speculative Stan Lee writer credit on the basis of his signature on later retelling. (02/04/2010)

Don't Send Me...Out There!!! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Carl Burgos

Inks:

Carl Burgos

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-321

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Synopsis:

A space pilot is terrified of taking another flight but his family is unsympathetic. Their attitude is out of surprise, since a robot has never before been afraid.

Indexer Notes

Art identification by Dr. Michael J. Vassallo; Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

They Call Me...Space Pirate (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee ?

Pencils:

Joe Sinnott (signed)

Inks:

Joe Sinnott (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-320

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Sandor

Synopsis:

A successful space pirate tries to conquer a world without technology to use as a base. He is surprised to find that the inhabitants are actually advanced "homo superior" with psychic powers, and they easily imprison him and his men.

Indexer Notes

Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Speculative writing credit to Stan Lee based on early use of the term "homo superior". This is the earliest known story to use this term, later to be the standard term for mutants in the Marvel Universe.