Amazing Adventures #6

(November 1961)

Sserpo! The Creature Who Crushed the Earth! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Dick Ayers

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-337

Content Information

Genre:

monsters

Characters:

Sserpo; Thomas Burke; Henry Burke; Anne Burke

Synopsis:

A growth serum is abandoned and eaten by a lizard, which grows big enough to menace the Earth. The world is only saved when a scientist, the great-grandson of the inventor of the serum, contacts aliens on Jupiter, who use their advanced technology to restore the creature to normal.

Reprinted:

• in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #27 (April 1974)
• in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)

Indexer Notes

This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Sserpo" (7 pp). Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Writer credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.

Muscle Man (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

J-849

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

Jimmy Binn; Tooloo

Synopsis:

An ordinary man envies body-builders on the beach, and a strange figure teaches him about the strength of his own mind.

Reprinted:

• from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #48 (July 1956)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

The Fourth Man (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee

Pencils:

Steve Ditko

Inks:

Steve Ditko

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-339

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

Ben; Spade; Mr. White

Synopsis:

Two thugs attempt to mug a kindly old man in the park when a statue comes to his aid.

Reprinted:

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

Krogg! (Table of Contents)

Dr. Droom / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee

Pencils:

Paul Reinman

Inks:

Paul Reinman

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-338

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Dr. Anthony Droom [later retroactively renamed Doctor Druid]; Krogg

Synopsis:

Dr. Droom investigates the disappearance of several houses, and finds that an alien disguised as a scientist is to blame.

Reprinted:

• in Giant-Size Man-Thing #3 (February 1975) [as a Doctor Druid story]
• in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #152
• in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)

Indexer Notes

Doctor Droom next appears as Doctor Druid in the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1968 series) #210 (April 1977), he had already been renamed in the reprints of these stories. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Writer credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.