(June 1973)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.20 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- bi-monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand:
- Marvel Comics Group
- Editing:
- Roy Thomas ?
- Format:
- Color; Standard US; Saddle-stitched; Newsprint; was ongoing series
Issue Notes
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
- from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #87 (August 1961)
The Return of Grogg!
cover / 1 page
Credits
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #87 (August 1961)
The Return of... Grogg!
comic story / 13 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Editing:
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number:
- V-237
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Michael Koslov (last appearance); Ivan Grotsky; Grogg
- Synopsis:
- Koslov is sent back home to investigate mysterious happenings in a remote area, where he discovers that the dragon Grogg is still on the loose. He sneaks into the secured area and finds that the military is planning a space mission to Mars to set up a base. With the help of a farmer, Koslov lures Grogg into the rocket and launches it on its mission to Mars, knowing that if the military ever successfully travel to Mars they will find an enraged dragon.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #87 (August 1961)
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. The hero's name is changed here, and Soviet Russia is changed to the fictional country 'Bodavia'.
He Kept Him in Stitches!
comic story / 3 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils:
- Larry Woromay ?
- Inks:
- Larry Woromay ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Editing:
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number:
- B-656
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror
- Synopsis:
- A surgeon gets the chance to operate on a Communist overlord and leaves his scalpel inside of him near his heart so that when he recovers enough in two days to move, he will die.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Adventures Into Terror (Marvel, 1951 series) #15 (January 1953)
Indexer Notes
Larry Woromay tentative credit from Michael J. Vassallo.
The Macabre Mirror!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Editing:
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number:
- V-238
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror
- Characters:
- the duke; Carlotta
- Synopsis:
- A greedy duke exacts crippling taxes from his people, taking their property when they run out of money. When he ignores a gypsy's warnings and tries to seize her ancient mirror he finds himself imprisoned within it forever, freeing his subjects.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #87 (August 1961)
Editing
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Ethan Hoddes
- Dwayne Best
- Nick Caputo
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Dwayne Best
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