(January 1972)
Marvel,
1970 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.20 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1971-10-19
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Magazine Management Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Printer
- Printed in the U.S.A. by World Color Press, Inc., Sparta, Illinois 62286
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1971 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress with a correction factor of plus 28 days.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
![Cover Thumbnail for Where Monsters Dwell (1970 series) #13 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1507/w100/1507920.jpg?-120593340145311263)
I Dared to Battle the Crawling Creature!
comic story / 13 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Dick Ayers
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-257
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Walter Carter; The Crawling Creature
- Synopsis
- A teenager mans a drill-pod and finds a primitive tribe and a horrible creature beneath the surface. He lures the creature to the surface to save the tribe and traps it in a canyon, keeping all of this secret.
- Reprints
-
from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #22 (August 1961) [part 1], #22 (August 1961) [part 2]
-
- Keywords
- monsters
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two untitled parts (6 pp, 7 pp).
When Darkness Falls!!
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- V-191
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A man sees mannequins move during the business hours of the store, and stays until closing. When the mannequins step down from their positions he berates them for nearly being caught, since he was another living mannequin all along.
- Reprints
- from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #69 (June 1961)
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The Frightening Fog
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Duffy
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original editor)
- Job Number
- ?
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A mysterious fog envelops the entire world for days, terrifying everyone. It was actually created by benevolent alien peacekeepers to hide Earth from an invasion.
- Reprints
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #28 (February 1962)
-
Indexer Notes
Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell, ed.). This plot is simiilar to a plan used by the Watcher in Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #48 (March 1966), also written by Stan Lee.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Thing That Crawls!
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1.
I Dared to Battle the Crawling Creature!
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2.
When Darkness Falls!!
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3.
The Frightening Fog
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Dwayne Best
- Chris Boyko
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Ethan Hoddes
- Paul Lefebvre
- Per Sandell
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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