- 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
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).
- 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
Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed as )
- 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
Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Paul Reinman (signed as )
- Inks
- Paul Reinman (signed as )
- 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
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…".