Where Creatures Roam #2

(September 1970)

I Spent Midnight with the Monster on Bald Mountain! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Steve Ditko

Inks

Steve Ditko

Colors

?

Letters

Artie Simek

Job Number

T-460

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Characters

Anton Gorge; Evil [never actually called "the Monster on Bald Mountain" in this story]; Good

Synopsis

A sculptor builds two statues, one representing good and the other evil. Lightning strikes the evil one and brings it to life.

Reprints

• from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #7 (January 1960) [as "I Spent Midnight with the Monster on Bald Mountain"]

Keywords

monsters

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the first person. Continues in the next issue.

I Dared Defy the Floating Head! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)

Pencils

Paul Reinman

Inks

Paul Reinman

Colors

?

Letters

Artie Simek

Job Number

T-562

Genre

drama; crime

Characters

Bruce; Hank Rogers; Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr. (cameo)

Synopsis

A giant floating head appears over New York, claiming that it is the advance scout of an alien invasion, and ordering everyone to evacuate. People panic when the head destroys a warehouse to demonstrate its power, but a young boy reveals that the whole thing is a hoax by criminals hoping to loot the empty city.

Reprints

• from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #8 (March 1960)

Keywords

monsters

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the first person.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Mighty Marvel Checklist / in-house column / 0.4 page (report information)

I Am the Man Without a Face! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee ?

Pencils

Joe Sinnott

Inks

Joe Sinnott

Colors

?

Letters

Ray Holloway ?

Job Number

T-371

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Rufus Watkins (only appearance)

Synopsis

A bigot rounds up some thugs to don black hoods and drive some harmless gypsies out of town. One of the gypsies curses him, and he is never able to remove his hood for the rest of his life.

Reprints

• from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #71 (October 1959)

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the first person. This story is a retelling of "Men in Black" by Stan Lee and John Romita, Jr. from Menace (Marvel, 1953 series) #3 (May 1953). The hoods are more clearly a reference to the Ku Klux Klan than in the original (they are not randomly chosen disguises, but something the bigot's "pappy left me when he died"). Lee credited as writer on the basis of his authorship of the original and later retelling.

He Waits for Us in the Glacier! (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)

Pencils

Don Heck

Inks

Don Heck

Colors

?

Letters

Artie Simek

Job Number

[T-472]

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Anuxa

Synopsis

A nuclear submarine finds an alien hibernating in a glacier. He has been waiting thousands of years for humanity to wipe itself out so his race can claim the Earth, and now that nuclear weapons exist he thinks it won't be much longer.

Reprints

• from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #7 (January 1960)
• in Dæmonen (Williams, 1973 series) #2/1974 (1974)

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the first person.