Strange Tales #99 [British]

(August 1962)

Mister Morgan's Monster (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)

Pencils

Jack Kirby (signed as KIRBY)

Inks

Dick Ayers (signed as Ayers (box))

Colors

Stan Goldberg

Letters

Joe Letterese

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Philip Morgan; Mrs. Morgan

Synopsis

Humanoid robots are banned, but their inventor keeps one in secret, and aliens try to turn it against humanity. It resists and they are forced to flee, but the robot’s inventor thinks that it disobeyed him by leaving hiding, not knowing that it saved humanity.

Reprints

• in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #11 (October 1967)
which is reprinted
• in Capitaine America (Editions Héritage, 1970 series) #46 ([Juin 1975])
• in Dæmonen (Interpresse, 1967 series) #31 (1968)
• in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #16 (April 1972)
• in Super Giant (K. G. Murray, 1973 series) #9 ([May 1974] ?)
• in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #10 (June 1975)
• in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #2 (2017)

Indexer Notes

Set after 2090.

Music Master (Table of Contents: 2)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Jay Scott Pike (illustration)

Inks

Jay Scott Pike (illustration)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Editing

Stan Lee (original editor)

Job Number

G-804

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Characters

Joe; Gus; Angelo

Synopsis

A struggling band takes on a poor but talented young harp player who turns out to be a young angel studying on Earth.

Reprints

• from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #39 (October 1955)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

The Day Before Doomsday! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)

Pencils

Jack Kirby (signed as KIRBY)

Inks

Dick Ayers (signed as Ayers (box))

Colors

Stan Goldberg

Letters

Ray Holloway ?; Artie Simek (splash)

Genre

science fiction

Characters

John Peterson; Premier Zorkon

Synopsis

A US scientist defects to the USSR and builds a large dome to protect their leaders from retaliation, allowing a massive strike on the US. The dome is really a pod to launch them into space.

Reprints

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #97
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #25 (1965 ?)
• in Dæmonen (Interpresse, 1967 series) #22
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #146 ([circa 1975 - 1976])
• in Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #21 (July 1976)
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #180 ([circa 1979 - 1980])
• in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #2 (2017)

Indexer Notes

The last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series).

The Man in the Glass Cage! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)

Pencils

Don Heck (signed as Don Heck)

Inks

Don Heck (signed as Don Heck)

Colors

Stan Goldberg

Letters

Artie Simek

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Joe Phelps; Anita Rogers; Bob

Synopsis

A sound engineer tries to kill a girl who spurned him using sound waves. When they fail, he is confused, and, is killed by the waves which didn't affect the secretly hard-of-hearing girl.

Reprints

• in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #42
• in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #64
• in Dæmonen (Interpresse, 1967 series) #31 (1968)
• in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #10 (June 1975)
• in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #224 ([circa 1984 - 1985])

A Switch in Time! (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (signed as Stan Lee [early- to mid-career])

Pencils

Steve Ditko (signed as S. DITKO)

Inks

Steve Ditko (signed as S. DITKO)

Colors

Stan Goldberg

Letters

Artie Simek

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Karl Kargon

Synopsis

In the year 2050 a prisoner reads about the invention of a time machine and so breaks jail to return to the past to rub out the one witness to his crime. However, as he attempts to assault the man, he realizes that he has been rendered intangible like a ghost so as to be unable to effect any change in the course of events.

Reprints

• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #25 (1965 ?)
• in Atome Kid (Arédit-Artima, 1970 series) #5 (1971), #17 (1974)
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #146 ([circa 1975 - 1976])
• in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #12 (October 1975) [miscredited to Journey Into Mystery #99]
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #180 ([circa 1979 - 1980])
• in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #2 (2019)

Indexer Notes

The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series).