Amazing Adventures #6 [British]
(November 1961)

Marvel, 1961 Series
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Volume
1
Price
9d [0-0-9 GBP]
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1961
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Atlas Magazines Inc.
Brand
MC
Editing
Stan Lee (editor)

Issue Notes

This issue is a variant of Amazing Adventures (Marvel, 1961 series) #6.

Sserpo, the Creature Who Crushed the World!! (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
Stan Lee
Pencils
Jack Kirby
Inks
George Klein
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Artie Simek
Job Number
V-337
Genre
science fiction
Characters
Sserpo
Reprints
Keywords
monsters

Indexer Notes

Klein credit per Nick Caputo, May 2012.

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Sserpo! The Creature Who Crushed the Earth! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
Pencils
Jack Kirby
Inks
George Klein
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Artie Simek
Job Number
V-337
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Prologue: One rainy, wind-tossed night on the California coast a hundred years ago, a voice cried out in despair...
Genre
science fiction
Characters
Sserpo; Thomas Burke; Henry Burke; Anne Burke
Synopsis
A growth serum is abandoned and eaten by a lizard, which grows big enough to menace the Earth. The world is only saved when a scientist, the great-grandson of the inventor of the serum, contacts aliens on Jupiter, who use their advanced technology to restore the creature to normal.
Reprints
Keywords
Australia; California; Japan; monsters

Indexer Notes

This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Sserpo" (7 pp). Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

Possible Lee plot/Lieber script per Nick Caputo. George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index credits Stan Lee as sole writer. Klein inks per Nick Caputo and Atlas Tales. Original indexer credited Dick Ayers.
Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 13).

Muscle Man (Table of Contents: 2)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
J-849
First Line of Dialogue or Text
It was a hot afternoon, this last one of Jimmy Binn's vacation.
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Jimmy Binn; Tooloo
Synopsis
An ordinary man envies body-builders on the beach, and a strange figure teaches him about the strength of his own mind.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).

The Fourth Man! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee (signed as Stan Lee [early- to mid-career])
Pencils
Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)
Inks
Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Artie Simek
Job Number
V-339
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Their names were Ben and Spade!
Genre
fantasy-supernatural
Characters
Ben; Spade; Mr. White
Synopsis
Two thugs attempt to mug a kindly old man in the park when a statue comes to his aid.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

Krogg! (Table of Contents: 4)

Dr. Droom / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
Pencils
Paul Reinman (signed as Paul Reinman)
Inks
Paul Reinman (signed as Paul Reinman)
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Artie Simek
Job Number
V-338
First Line of Dialogue or Text
On a quiet corner in a small midwestern town there stands a new, private house...as yet unsold!
Genre
superhero; fantasy-supernatural
Characters
Dr. Anthony Droom [later retroactively renamed Doctor Druid]; Krogg
Synopsis
Dr. Droom investigates the disappearance of several houses, and finds that an alien disguised as a scientist is to blame.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Doctor Droom next appears as Doctor Druid in the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1968 series) #210 (April 1977). The character had been renamed in reprints appearing in Weird Wonder Tales to avoid confusion with Dr. Doom. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

Possible Lee plot/Lieber script per Nick Caputo.George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index credits Stan Lee as sole writer.
Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5). story carries the over-title "Dr. Droom Defies the Menace Called…".

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. Sserpo, the Creature Who Crushed the World!!
  2. 1. Sserpo! The Creature Who Crushed the Earth!
  3. 2. Muscle Man
  4. 3. The Fourth Man!
  5. 4. Krogg!
    Dr. Droom
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