Monster Masterworks #[nn]

(1989)

Blank pages (Table of Contents)

blank page(s) / 2 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover and inside back cover are blank.

Monster Masterworks (Table of Contents)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Vince Mielcarek (photo)

Inks:

Vince Mielcarek (photo)

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

Title page with creators listed against a background of a monochrome photograph.

Monsters of the Shifty Fifties (Table of Contents)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Kirby (signed)

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

Jack Kirby comments on the monsters of the 1950s.

Monster Masterworks (Table of Contents)

table of contents / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Vince Mielcarek (photo)

Inks:

Vince Mielcarek (photo)

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

Table of contents with a background of a monochrome photo. Most reprint sources are listed from the 1970s reprints, not the originals.

Alien Invaders (Table of Contents)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Vince Mielcarek (photo)

Inks:

Vince Mielcarek (photo)

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

Section header with type and a monochrome scenery photo.

I Challenged...Groot! The Monster from Planet X! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee

Pencils:

Jack Kirby [as Kirby] (signed)

Inks:

Dick Ayers [as Ayers] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-839

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Groot (introduction, origin); Leslie Evans; Alice Evans

Synopsis:

The monarch of planet X arrives on Earth in order to capture a town for experimental purposes back on his homeworld. The hero of our story defeats Groot with termites.

Reprints:

• from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #13 (November 1960)

The Threat of Tim Boo Ba (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee

Pencils:

Steve Ditko

Inks:

Steve Ditko

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Tim Boo Ba

Synopsis:

Alien warlord Tim Boo Ba is master of all he surveys but is wiped out in a torrential flood when an Earth boy drips water on the small scale model that is Tim Boo Ba's home planet.

Reprints:

• from Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series) #9 (February 1962)

Indexer Notes

This is reprinted from the retitled version in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #10.

The Glop! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Dick Ayers

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Glop

Synopsis:

A painter is hired to cover a statue with strange paint. The statue comes to life at midnight and goes on a rampage. The statue is an advance agent for an alien invasion, and the painter defeats it by using turpentine to remove the special paint.

Reprints:

• from Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #7 (July 1971)
which is reprinted
• from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #72 (September 1961) [ one page removed from original story; pp1–6, 8–13, reformatted, as "The Glop"]

Keywords:

monsters

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the first person.

Taboo! The Thing From Murky Swamp! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Dick Ayers

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-673

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Lewis Conrad; Taboo (introduction, origin)

Synopsis:

A popular adventure writer finds a giant mud creature from another planet stranded in a Brazilian swamp. The alien tricks him into bringing all Earth's scientific records for nefarious purposes, but is destroyed by an H-bomb hidden with the records.

Reprints:

• from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #75 (June 1960)

Keywords:

monsters

I Learned the Dread Secret of the Blip! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Dick Ayers

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-943

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Blip

Synopsis:

A power drain and radar anomaly is traced to a creature made of electricity hiding in a cave. It claims to be a friendly visitor, but humans attack it and it flees into space.

Reprints:

• from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #15 (January 1961)

I Was Captured by the Creature from Krogarr! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Dick Ayers

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Joe Hanson; Clara Hanson; Creature from Krogarr

Synopsis:

A dissolute human is targeted by an alien that can transport items through television sets, but he is saved by his failure to pay the electric bill.

Reprints:

• from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #25 (November 1961)

A Martian Walks Among Us! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Dick Ayers

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-864

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Synopsis:

A man spots upon a Martian in human form scouting for an invasion. The police won’t believe him, so he finds and kills the spy himself, revealing that he is a Venusian in disguise working to protect Earth.

Reprints:

• from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #78 (November 1960)

Man-Made Monsters (Table of Contents)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

Vince Mielcarek (photo)

Inks:

Vince Mielcarek (photo)

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

Chapter header with monochrome photo and title.

What Was "X" The Thing That Lived! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 18 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Dick Ayers

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

Charles Bentley; X

Synopsis:

A comic writer's monsters keep coming to life, until he creates one that can't be defeated. The writer comes to the conclusion that the key is in the typewriter he's been using to write the stories.

Reprints:

• from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #20 (June 1961), #20 (June 1961), #20 (June 1961), #20 (June 1961)

Indexer Notes

A four-part story.

Van Doom, the Man Who Made a Creature! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Dick Ayers

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

Ludwig Vandoom; Vandoom's Creature

Synopsis:

Vandoom, the owner of a Transylvanian wax museum, sets out to build a new monster in order to bring customers back to the museum. A lightning bolt brings the creature to life, but despite the fearful attacks of the villagers, it is not hostile and does not strike back. An invasion force of Martians lands and Vandoom convinces his creation to attack them. The wax figure defeats them, but the effort drains the life force out of it.

Reprints:

• from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #17 (March 1961), #17 (March 1961) [part 2]

Kraa the Unhuman (Table of Contents)

comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Dick Ayers

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Kraa (intro)

Synopsis:

An American teacher investigates the mysterious statues made by one tribe in Africa, and finds that they worship a native mutated into a monster by a Soviet atomic test. The teacher soothes the man's pain with ointment, but before the American can get him to a hospital he dies protecting his helper from a python.

Reprints:

• from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #18 (June 1961) [part 1], #18 (June 1961)

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the first person.

I Am the Brute That Walks! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Dick Ayers

Colors:

?

Letters:

Artie Simek

Job Number:

V-875

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

"The Brute That Walks" [Howard Avery]; Sally Barton

Synopsis:

Scrawny scientist Howard Avery develops a growth serum so his girlfriend Sally will like him better, but it turns him into a giant monster.

Reprints:

• from Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #1 (July 1970)
which is reprinted
• from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #65 (February 1961) [p1, p2: panels 1, 4–5, p3: panels 1, 5–6, p4: panels 3–8, pp5–13, reformatted; reformatted]

Keywords:

monsters

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the first person.

Sporr! The Thing That Could Not Die! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee

Pencils:

Jack Kirby [as Kirby] (signed)

Inks:

Dick Ayers [as Ayers] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-778

Content Information

Characters:

Sporr

Synopsis:

A scientist moves into Dr. Frankenstein's castle to set up his experimental growth ray. When he trains it upon an amoeba, the frightened villagers burst in, and seeing the equipment, think he is going to bring ruin down upon them and hustle him off to the town jail. With no one to shut off the growth machine, the amoeba grows to huge size and smashes out of the castle to menace the village. The scientist escapes his jail cell and uses his labcoat soaked with sugar to lure Sporr into a quicksand pit.

Reprints:

• from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #11 (September 1960)

Zzutak: The Thing That Shouldn't Exist!! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Steve Ditko

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-299

Content Information

Genre:

fantasy

Characters:

Frank Johnson (introduction); Yucoya-Tzin (introduction, not named); Zzutak (introduction, origin)

Synopsis:

An American comic book artist is forced by an Aztec priest to make a monster with magic paints. The artist creates another monster to fight the first, causing the temple to collapse on both monsters, giving the priest amnesia and ending the threat.

Reprints:

• from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #88 (September 1961)

Keywords:

monsters

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Zzutak" (7 pp).

Ancient Menaces (Table of Contents)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

Vince Mielcarek (photo)

Inks:

Vince Mielcarek (photo)

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

Chapter header with monochrome photo and title.

Fear in the Night (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Steve Ditko

Inks:

Steve Ditko

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-83

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Zenocian #7; Model Vog robot

Synopsis:

A man and a robot are stranded and the man tries to sacrifice himself to save the robot, but they are both saved, and we find that the man was a humanoid robot, and the robot a robot-looking alien.

Reprints:

• from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #65 (February 1961)

Gigantus! The Monster That...Walked Like a Man! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Steve Ditko

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-930

Content Information

Genre:

fantasy

Characters:

Mr. Baxter; Charlie; Gigantus

Synopsis:

An advertising man tricks an advance agent of a proposed invasion from Atlantis into returning to Atlantis by building a mannequin even larger than Goliath and threatening to wage war with his people for the surface of Earth.

Reprints:

• from Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #10 (July 1971)
which is reprinted
• from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #63 (December 1960) [retitled "Gigantus! The Monster That...Walked Like a Man!"]

Keywords:

monsters

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the first person. Relettered to change the monster's name from Goliath to Gigantus.

Grottu, King of the Insects! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Bill Everett

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-547

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Frank [Ulysses Bloodstone] (earliest published appearance according to later continuity); Lynn Avery; Kasenga; Grottu (introduction, origin)

Synopsis:

A journalist and an archaeologist go to Africa and find an atomically mutated giant ant with super-intelligence. The giant ant tries to lead an army of insects to world conquest, but is foiled when the humans use sugar to turn his ants against him.

Reprints:

• from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #73 (February 1960)

Keywords:

monsters

Titan, the Amphibian from Atlantis! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot)

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Dick Ayers ?; Russ Heath ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

John Cartwright; Titan

Synopsis:

John Cartwright, an auto executive, pretends to betray the human race to the invaders from Atlantis.

Reprints:

• from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #28 (April 1962)

Indexer Notes

Reprinted from the version in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #12. This printing says inks by Dick Ayers; index for original printing says Russ Heath.

Fin Fang Foom! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Dick Ayers

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-318

Content Information

Genre:

fantasy

Characters:

Fin Fang Foom (introduction); Chan Liuchow; Chung Liuchow

Synopsis:

A young historian from Taiwan crosses to the mainland to awake the dragon Fin Fang Foom and foil a communist invasion. He lures the dragon to the coast to wreck the invasion fleet, and then lures it back to its layer before restoring its mystical slumber.

Reprints:

• from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #89 (October 1961)

Keywords:

monsters

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: part one (6 pp) and part two (7 pp).

[Cover - Where Monsters Dwell #15] (Table of Contents)

cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

John Severin [as Severin] (signed)

Inks:

John Severin [as Severin] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Morrie Kuramoto

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Kraa

Reprints:

• from Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #15 (May 1972)

Keywords:

monsters

[Cover - Where Monsters Dwell #35] (Table of Contents)

cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Dick Ayers

Colors:

?

Letters:

Artie Simek; Danny Crespi

Content Information

Characters:

Gorgolla

Reprints:

• from Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #35 (May 1975)
which is reprinted
• from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #74 (April 1960)

[Cover - Where Monsters Dwell #21] (Table of Contents)

cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Dick Ayers

Colors:

?

Letters:

Artie Simek

Content Information

Characters:

Fin Fang Foom

Reprints:

• from Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #21 (May 1973)
which is reprinted
• from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #89 (October 1961)

[Cover - Where Monsters Dwell #16] (Table of Contents)

cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

Gil Kane

Inks:

Vince Colletta

Colors:

?

Letters:

John Costanza

Content Information

Characters:

Googam

Reprints:

• from Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #16 (July 1972)