Amazing Stories of Suspense #89

Evil Lurks Amongst Us (Table of Contents: 1)

Mighty Crusaders / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Jerry Siegel

Pencils

Paul Reinman

Inks

Paul Reinman

Letters

Sam Rosen

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Those reports we heard on the radio weren't a hoax!

Genre

superhero

Characters

Mighty Crusaders [Fly Man; Fly Girl; Black Hood; Shield; Comet]; Evil Crusaders [Evil Fly Man; Evil Fly Girl; Evil Black Hood; Evil Shield; Evil Comet]; Wizard; Eraser (flashback); Hangman; The Cosmic Creep; Deathless Smiler

Synopsis

After battling evil duplicates of themselves, the Mighty Crusaders attempt to defeat the Deathless Smiler, even as one of them is suspected of being a traitor.

Reprints

• from The Mighty Crusaders (Archie, 1965 series) #3 (March 1966)

Indexer Notes

Two part story, part one pages are numbered 1-8, part two pages are numbered 1-12.

The Perfect Hideout (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Syd Shores

Inks

Syd Shores

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The Warlord had been defeated! But his enemies would never find him!

Synopsis

A fleeing dictator thinks he will hide out on an island and then fly back to the mainland when his pursuers have given up looking for him, but his associates have drained the plane of fuel.

Reprints

• from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #41 (December 1956)

The Savages (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Angelo Torres (signed)

Inks

Angelo Torres (signed)

Letters

?

Job Number

K-825

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Man has traced his beginnings from the tales told in the rocks and marshes!

Synopsis

This story postulates that the first humans were actually Martians whose spaceship developed engine trouble.

Reprints

• from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #42 (January 1957)

Humans...Keep Out! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

George Roussos

Inks

John Giunta

Letters

?

Job Number

K-737

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Look at them out there! Gloating!

Genre

detective-mystery; horror-suspense

Synopsis

Scientists are driven off the moon by lifeforms that they themselves engineered to live without oxygen so as to colonize the moon.

Reprints

• from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #42 (January 1957)

The Swirling Mist! (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Joe Sinnott (signed)

Inks

Joe Sinnott (signed)

Letters

?

Job Number

K-575

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Jeff Coates found the greatest story of his career when he boarded the ancient boat docked in the cold, bleak grayness of the dawn!

Genre

detective-mystery; horror-suspense

Synopsis

A man finds himself on a steamboat that transports him through time.

Reprints

• from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #41 (December 1956)

The Origin of Fly Man (Table of Contents: 6)

Fly-Man / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Jerry Siegel

Pencils

Paul Reinman

Inks

Paul Reinman

Letters

Sam Rosen

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Great and astounding changes have been wrought in the fabulous crusading winged marvel!

Genre

superhero

Characters

Fly-Man; Turan

Synopsis

Origin of Fly Man, which explains his metamorphosis from Fly into Fly Man. It also accounts for his new size changing abilities.

Reprints

• from The Mighty Crusaders (Archie, 1965 series) #3 (March 1966)

I Was Trapped in Horror House! (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

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

Pencils

Paul Reinman (signed)

Inks

Paul Reinman (signed)

Letters

Artie Simek

Job Number

T-725

First Line of Dialogue or Text

These wax figures...they--they seem to be--alive!

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Joe Kane; Charlie Jordon

Synopsis

A convict escapes from death row and hides in a haunted house in an amusement park. A mysterious figure leads him into hotter and hotter tunnels and he never emerges from the house.

Reprints

• from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #59 (July 1960)

The Disappearing Man (Table of Contents: 8)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Gray Morrow (signed)

Inks

Gray Morrow (signed)

Letters

?

Job Number

K-815

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Fight manager Fritz Luder's new heavyweight was a walking gold mine!

Synopsis

A fight manager has his wife stolen from him when he signs up a Venusian who can disappear in the ring at will.

Reprints

• from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #42 (January 1957)

The Question That Can't Be Answered! (Table of Contents: 9)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

John Forte (signed)

Inks

John Forte (signed)

Letters

?

Job Number

K-420

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

A reporter thinks reincarnation a scam and so he plans to expose a hypnotist who has prepared a hoax with his wife to channel a spirit through time. However, even though the hypnotist thinks that he is performing an act, the reporter actually becomes hypnotized and he finds himself inhabiting the body of a man 500 years from the present day. They are still doing channeling act 500 years in the future and the reporter gets re-hypnotized and sent back 500 years, but he is now perplexed as to his identity. He begs the hypnotist to answer the question of who he is.

Reprints

• from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #40 (November 1956)

Companion Comics in This Series (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)