World of Fantasy
#16
(February 1959)
Marvel,
1956 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Zenith Publishing Corp.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
Distributed to newsstands in November 1958. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
Prison, 2,000 A.D.
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Carl Burgos; Bob Forgione ? (see notes)
- Inks
- Carl Burgos; Bob Forgione ? (see notes)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- John Fox
- Reprints
-
in Race for the Moon (Thorpe & Porter, 1959 ? series) #6 ([circa 1960]) - in Race for the Moon (Thorpe & Porter, 1962 ? series) #6 ([1963])
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Indexer Notes
From GCD Error #5411 (20 November 2010), Tom Orzechowski states there is a stylization similarity to this cover and and the splash page to Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #2,
"The cover shows a solid stylistic similarity to the splash page in Tales to Astonish #2's story "I Spent Eternity in a Deep Freeze." That story is credited to Bob Forgione. ...Toward center right, just this side of the control room, there's detailing that follows the curvature of the gated window for no reason at all, and otherwise is inconsistent with its own angles. Likewise, there's wainscoting, a view screen and some rivets just behind the blurb, on an angle and level inconsistent with the control room immediately above."
Previous indexer and Nick Caputo believe pencils and inks to be by Carl Burgos.
Saltarella previously credited John Severin on inks based on the broken fine linework in the background but Nick Caputo sees no evidence of his work.
Nightmare Planet
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Joe Sinnott (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-121
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Col. Ken Travers
- Synopsis
- Earth is terrified by the approach of a giant planet, but a military expedition finds that time moves more slowly on this planet, so they will not notice Earth.
- Reprints
- in Race for the Moon (Thorpe & Porter, 1959 ? series) #6 ([circa 1960])
- in Race for the Moon (Thorpe & Porter, 1962 ? series) #6 ([1963])
-
in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #2 ([September] 1963)
-
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. Set in the year 2500.
Bird Talk
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- K-424
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Tony Tipple; Skeets Mulligan; Toodles Murphy
- Synopsis
- A meeting with a strange man gives a boy an unusual way of getting a pet bird, talking to birds.
- Reprints
- from Journey into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1950 series) #50 (October 1956)
- in Race for the Moon (Thorpe & Porter, 1959 ? series) #6 ([circa 1960])
- in Race for the Moon (Thorpe & Porter, 1962 ? series) #6 ([1963])
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
Arise, Oh Geni...
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-123
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Claude Hicks
- Synopsis
- A man with hay fever releases a hostile genie with plans of conquest from a lamp, but the genie contracts hay fever from his liberator. The genie tries to go to different areas, but after so long in the lamp, he has no resistances to germs and pollen. He decides he was better off in the lamp.
- Reprints
- in Race for the Moon (Thorpe & Porter, 1959 ? series) #6 ([circa 1960])
- in Race for the Moon (Thorpe & Porter, 1962 ? series) #6 ([1963])
- in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #15 (November 1974)
- in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Reprint credits from Jeff Cooper (July 7, 2003).
Worlds within Worlds!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Carl Burgos ?
- Inks
- Carl Burgos
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-130
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Paul Stratton; Terry Mason; Dr. Stone
- Synopsis
- A scientist is convinced that there are microscopic worlds inside microbes. He cannot find one, but if he'd have kept looking then he would have found Earth.
- Reprints
- in Race for the Moon (Thorpe & Porter, 1959 ? series) #6 ([circa 1960])
- in Race for the Moon (Thorpe & Porter, 1962 ? series) #6 ([1963])
- in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #2 ([September] 1963)
-
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the second person.
Beware the Future!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Al Williamson
- Inks
- Al Williamson
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-111
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Luther Zorn; Emma Zorn
- Synopsis
- A physicist invents a time machine, but when it shows an idyllic future it causes people to lose their motivation to improve the world.
- Reprints
- in Race for the Moon (Thorpe & Porter, 1959 ? series) #6 ([circa 1960])
- in Race for the Moon (Thorpe & Porter, 1962 ? series) #6 ([1963])
- in The Al Williamson Reader (Pure Imagination, 2008 series) (2008) [black-and-white reprint]
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Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person.
Prison 2000 A.D.
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Christopher Rule
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-115
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- John Fox
- Synopsis
- In the year 2000 criminals are reconditioned through virtual reality.
- Reprints
- in Race for the Moon (Thorpe & Porter, 1959 ? series) #6 ([circa 1960])
- in Race for the Moon (Thorpe & Porter, 1962 ? series) #6 ([1963])
- in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #2 ([September] 1963)
- in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (2017)
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Indexer Notes
Reprint credit from Jeff Cooper (July 7, 2003).
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Prison, 2,000 A.D.
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1.
Nightmare Planet
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2.
Bird Talk
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3.
Arise, Oh Geni...
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4.
Worlds within Worlds!
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5.
Beware the Future!
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6.
Prison 2000 A.D.
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