Amazing Adventures #4

(September 1961)

I Am Robot X (Table of Contents)

comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee

Pencils:

Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks:

Dick Ayers (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-265

Content Information

Genre:

monsters

Characters:

Robot X (introduction, origin); Prof. Jonathan Wilkes; Charles J. Wentworth

Synopsis:

The creation of sentient robots provokes a demagogic campaign revealed to be the work of Martian spies.

Reprinted:

• in Amazing Adventures Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)

Indexer Notes

This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Robot X!" (7 pp). Robot X later appears in Doc Samson (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (April 2006), but this version does not seem the same as the version in this story. Writer credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.

The Pact (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Joe Maneely

Inks:

Joe Maneely

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

9734

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

Henry Conrad; Frances Conrad; the Devil

Synopsis:

A historian writing about the trial and execution of his ancestor for witchcraft interviews the only remaining party concerned in the case: the Devil.

Reprinted:

• from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #2 (August 1952)

Who or What Was...the Bootblack? (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee

Pencils:

Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks:

Steve Ditko (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-264

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

Simon Sledge

Synopsis:

Simon Sledge is a cruel and heartless businessman who delights in making others suffer. On the way to the biggest deal of his life, one that will eliminate the last of his competition, he stops for a shoeshine. Suddenly his feet are moving away from his destination, taking him far from the deal that will give him a monopoly in his field. He glances back at the bootblack who is revealed as an angel, and who says that when human laws can’t touch someone like Sledge, there are always higher laws.

Reprinted:

• in Amazing Adventures Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)

Indexer Notes

Writer credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.

What Lurks Within? (Table of Contents)

Doctor Droom / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee

Pencils:

Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks:

Dick Ayers (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-266

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Dr. Anthony Droom [later retroactively renamed Doctor Druid]

Synopsis:

Doctor Droom frightens off alien invaders by convincing them that a construction site’s wrecking ball is a life-form.

Reprinted:

• in Amazing Adventures Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)

Indexer Notes

Also carries the blurb: "Starring Doctor Droom!" The Doctor Droom feature skips the next issue. Writer credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.