Where Monsters Dwell #9

(May 1971)

I Learned the Monstrous Secret of Bombu! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

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

Pencils

Jack Kirby

Inks

Dick Ayers

Colors

?

Letters

Artie Simek

Job Number

T-801

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Bombu; Mr. Mason; Luis

Synopsis

Explorers meet a witch doctor named Bombu, who seems to possess real power. He is killed by lightning and when they find that his mask is really his face they realize that he was an alien.

Reprints

• from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #60 (September 1960)

Keywords

monsters

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the first person.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

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

I Found the Things from Nowhere (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

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

Pencils

Jack Kirby

Inks

Steve Ditko

Colors

?

Letters

Artie Simek

Job Number

T-805

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Joe Carter

Synopsis

A man messes with his TV and it picks up battle between alien-looking creatures. The man assumes that he must have tuned into the events upon some other planet, but what the TV has actually shown him was a colony of black ants being attacked and destroyed by a colony of red ants right outside his window.

Reprints

• from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #60 (September 1960)

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the first person.

The Magic of Mordoo! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

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

Pencils

Paul Reinman (signed); Sol Brodsky ?

Inks

Paul Reinman (signed); Sol Brodsky ?

Colors

?

Letters

Joe Letterese

Job Number

V-416

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Franz Kopnik; Katrina Steuben; Mordoo

Synopsis

A man falls in love with a middle-aged woman on vacation, but wants a younger wife. He convinces her to let a gypsy magician make her young again, but once she's young and pretty she leaves him for the young attractive gypsy.

Reprints

• from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #75 (December 1961)

Indexer Notes

Script added by Bob Bailey, 2 September 2005 (Per Sandell ed.).

The Man Who Lost the World! (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils

Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks

Steve Ditko (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Artie Simek

Job Number

V-417

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Bruno; Professor

Synopsis

A scientist's assistant is determined to find whether his time machine sends objects into the past or future. When his journey ends, Earth is so primitive that he is cut off from all humanity, and he realizes that he still doesn't know whether the machine sends things into the past or future since it could be either the dawn or the end of time.

Reprints

• from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #75 (December 1961)

Indexer Notes

Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Script added by Bob Bailey, 2 September 2005 (Per Sandell ed.).