- Script
- Stan Lee (credited) (plot); Jerry Siegel (credited as Joe Carter) (script)
- Pencils
- Dick Ayers (credited)
- Inks
- Dick Ayers (credited)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen (credited as S. Rosen)
- Job Number
- [X-398 ?]
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Plantman [Sam Smithers] (introduction, origin); Doris Evans (introduction); Mr. Evans (introduction)
- Synopsis
- The Human Torch saves his new girlfriend Doris’s father from a disgruntled gardener who gains the ability to control plants.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #51
- in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #16 (September 1968)
which is reprinted- in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #12 (7 Settembre 1971) [pages 1–4 only], #13 (21 Settembre 1971) [pp 5–13, as "Arriva l'Uomo Pianta" part 2, Italian translation]
- in Essential Human Torch (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 ([October] 2003) [black & white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([September] 2006)
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (Marvel, 2014 series) #1 (2014)
- in The Human Torch & The Thing: Strange Tales - The Complete Collection (Marvel, 2018 series) (2018)
Plantman's costume resembles that worn by The Shadow; he next appears, in a new costume, in issue #121 (June 1964). Doris Evans would continue as Johnny's semi-reluctant girlfriend until the end of his solo series.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- K-368
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Herbert; Mr. Blooper
- Synopsis
- A man insists on getting a specially made pair of glasses in a hurry, and finds that the optician has a magical corridor that leads back in time.
- Reprints
Text story with illustration.
- Script
- Stan Lee (credited)
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (credited)
- Inks
- George Roussos (uncredited)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek (credited as Art Simek)
- Job Number
- X-400
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Uncle Hugo; Harry Hook
- Synopsis
- A shoemaker who enjoys telling the neighborhood children stories of the little people who come out at night to help him make shoes becomes ill and goes to a loan shark to acquire money for medical treatment. The loan shark harasses him constantly to make interest payments on his loan so he must work night and day. The last time the greedy money lender visits the shoemaker he gets the shock of his life as it turns out the little people are real. They shrink the man and put him to work building shoes for the shoemaker.
- Reprints
Uncredited Roussos Inks per Bob Bailey, 2005-03-19. (Per Sandell ed.). Previous indexer credited Steve Ditko. Ditko plot credit removed due to lack of attribution. (13/07/2010)
Job number confirmed on original art: https://www.nostalgicinvestments.com/by-artist/2375/steve-ditko/strange-ta…