Monsters on the Prowl #13

(October 1971)

The Sandman Cometh! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Dick Ayers

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Editing:

Stan Lee (original story)

Job Number:

[V-225]

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

"Sandman"; Steve Bronson; Anne Bronson; Bobby Bronson

Synopsis:

A family stumbles across a hostile alien made of sand. The military are helpless, but it is defeated by the family’s bookish son, who uses water to dissolve it and traps it in a bucket.

Reprints:

• from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #70 (July 1961)

Keywords:

monsters

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two untitled parts (6 pp, 7 pp).

I Dared Enter the Haunted Forest! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Don Heck

Inks:

Don Heck

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Editing:

Stan Lee (original story)

Job Number:

T-859

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Darius Zorn; man in black

Synopsis:

A bigoted rich man buys a cursed forest, unconcerned with the misfortunes that befall the village. The forest's keeper takes him to another dimension, explaining that he was looking for a man who no one would miss to display in the alien zoo.

Reprints:

• from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #61 (October 1960)

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the first person.

It Fell From the Flying Saucer! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Dick Ayers

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Editing:

Stan Lee (original story)

Job Number:

V-609

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Synopsis:

An artist finds an alien pencil that will make whatever he draws real, but his selfish use of it makes the aliens take it back.

Reprints:

• from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #31 (May 1962)

The Thing From the Hidden Swamp (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Dick Ayers

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Editing:

Stan Lee (original story)

Job Number:

V-587

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Mary Brown; "The Thing from the Hidden Swamp" (only referred to as such in title)

Synopsis:

A plain girl helps a stranded alien, and is made beautiful as a reward.

Reprints:

• from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #30 (April 1962)

In the Shadow of Tragg -- He Who Walks Beneath the Earth! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gerry Conway

Pencils:

Syd Shores

Inks:

Syd Shores

Colors:

?

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Characters:

Tragg; David Arnstead

Synopsis:

Reporter David Arnstead investigates the shut-down of a New York City subway line and finds Tragg, a subterranean monster that kills anything human it encounters.

Reprints:

• in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #33 (January 1975)

Keywords:

monsters

Indexer Notes

New story in the style of the earlier Lee/Kirby/Ditko monster tales.