Monsters on the Prowl #30

(October 1974)

I Saw Diablo! The Demon from the Fifth Dimension! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Dick Ayers

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Editing:

Stan Lee (original story)

Job Number:

[T-631]

Content Information

Genre:

monsters

Characters:

Diablo

Synopsis:

An extradimensional smoke monster invades the Earth. It could have destroyed humanity, but an adventurer tricks it by blowing out the smoke from a lighter, making it think humans can destroy it.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #9 (May 1960)

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the first person. In a later, as yet unidentified story, the protagonist of this story was revealed (retconned) to be Ulysses Bloodstone.

The Strange Fate of the Statue Maker! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Editing:

Stan Lee (original story)

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Luther Benedict

Synopsis:

An inventor accidentally invents a petrification device and decides to use it to turn attractive people into detailed statues. His first victim is so beautiful that he decides to release her, but accidentally petrifies himself.

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• from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #34 (August 1962)

Only a Beast! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Al Eadeh

Inks:

Al Eadeh

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Editing:

Stan Lee (original story)

Job Number:

[E-14]

Content Information

Genre:

horror

Synopsis:

A bed-ridden old man hates those who will inherit his money so he establishes hypnotic control of his dimwitted caretaker to have him do away with them.

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• from Menace (Marvel, 1953 series) #11 (May 1954)

Indexer Notes

Reprint is inaccurately credited to Mystic #6. Correct reprint credit and penciler credit from atlastales.com

The Little Men (Table of Contents)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Sol Brodsky

Inks:

Sol Brodsky

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Editing:

Stan Lee (original story)

Content Information

Genre:

fantasy

Synopsis:

An old man creates wooden statues that Leprechauns collect.

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• from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #42 (April 1956)