Strange Tales #107

(April 1963)

The Master of Flame vs. The Monarch of the Sea!! (Table of Contents)

The Human Torch / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)

Pencils:

Dick Ayers

Inks:

Dick Ayers

Colors:

Stan Goldberg ?

Letters:

Artie Simek

Job Number:

X-88

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Sub-Mariner [Namor McKenzie]; Thing [Ben Grimm] (cameo); Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards] (cameo); Invisible Girl [Sue Storm] (cameo)

Synopsis:

The Human Torch goes looking for Sub-Mariner in order to beat him and win more respect. He traps Sub-Mariner beneath the ocean floor and returns to the surface.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #9 (July 1967)
• in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #9 (27 Luglio 1971) [as "Faccia a faccia con il principe Namor, il potente Sub Mariner", Italian translation]
• in Capitaine America (Editions Héritage, 1970 series) #33 ([May 1974])
• in The Human Torch (Marvel, 1974 series) #7 (September 1975)
• in Essential Human Torch (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (October 2003) [black & white]
• in Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (September 2006)

Indexer Notes

Sub-Mariner last appears in Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #9 (December 1963), and next appears in Fantastic Four Annual (Marvel, 1963 series) #1 (1963). This is the first Sub-Mariner story of the 1960s not drawn by Jack Kirby. Sub-Mariner exhibits the powers of a puffer fish and an electric eel, never seen again after this story!

The Universal Gadget (Table of Contents)

text story / 1.75 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

H-254

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

Bill Jordan

Synopsis:

A mysterious salesman offers a product that can do anything, but his customer decides that his ordinary contentment is better than the risk of the unknown.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #30 (January 1956)

Indexer Notes

The first page of this story is printed between the pages of the Human Torch story, while the second page is printed between "Secret Weapon!" and "The Treasure of Planetoid 12!". The last page is split with the statement of ownership. Info by Barry Pearl.

Secret Weapon! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)

Pencils:

Larry Lieber

Inks:

Sol Brodsky

Colors:

?

Letters:

Artie Simek

Job Number:

X-89

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Fedor Zelinki

Synopsis:

A Soviet spy steals a gas intended to make the US leadership invulnerable, and uses it on the Soviet leaders. They find that it is a trap and the gas shrinks them to the size of insects.

Indexer Notes

Inks and letters credits by Barry Pearl; originally listed Larry Lieber (inks).

Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 and June 11, 1960 (74 Stat. 208) (Table of Contents)

statement of ownership / 0.25 page (report information)

Credits

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

This shares the last page of "The Universal Gadget". Average circulation per issue published October 1961–September 1962 (issues #93–103, despite monthly cover dates): 136,637.

The Treasure of Planetoid 12! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee

Pencils:

Steve Ditko

Inks:

Steve Ditko

Colors:

?

Letters:

Artie Simek

Job Number:

[X-90 ?]

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Charlie Nast; Sam

Synopsis:

In the year 2100 a criminal hijacks a spaceship to be the first man to claim the treasure of Planetoid 12. When he gets there, he finds nothing but water and mud. He thinks that it might be oil or something valuable, but after he drinks it he knows that it is merely water. The pilot that he forced along at gunpoint thinks he knows where the treasure is, but the criminal refuses to believe there is a treasure on Planetoid 12 at all until he reverts back into an infant. The pilot has realized the treasure is the fountain of youth.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #22 (October 1975)