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:

horror-suspense

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:

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

Keywords:

monsters

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:

Paul Reinman

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.

Reprints:

• 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-suspense

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.

Reprints:

• 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.

Reprints:

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