Where Monsters Dwell #6

(November 1970)

I Challenged...Groot! The Monster from Planet X! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

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

Pencils

Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks

Dick Ayers (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Artie Simek

Job Number

T-839

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Groot (introduction, origin); Leslie Evans; Alice Evans

Synopsis

The monarch of Planet X arrives on Earth in order to capture a town for experimental purposes back on his homeworld. The hero of our story defeats Groot with termites.

Reprints

• from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #13 (November 1960)

Keywords

monsters

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the first person. Groot next appears in Marvel Monsters: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 in a flashback story, he then appeared in modern continuity in Nick Fury's Howling Commandos (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (January 2006) and eventually became a member of the second incarnation of the Guardians of the Galaxy.

I Dared to Look Into the Beyond! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

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

Pencils

Jack Kirby

Inks

Steve Ditko

Colors

?

Letters

Artie Simek

Job Number

T-773

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

A scientist builds a time machine to travel into the future. He believes that he has travelled to the past, demonstrating that the future does not yet exist, but in fact he saw a future in which Earth was abandoned.

Reprints

• from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #11 (September 1960)

My Friend Is...Not Quite Human! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Steve Ditko

Inks

Steve Ditko

Colors

?

Letters

Ray Holloway ?

Job Number

[T-836 ?]

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Gustav; First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte (cameo)

Synopsis

A misogynist wood-carver falls in love with his sculpture and has himself transformed into wood, but his refusal to pay a gypsy mystic leads to her making the wooden figure human out of spite.

Reprints

• from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #13 (November 1960)
• in L'Incroyable Hulk (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #13 ([août 1972]) [N&B [B&W]]

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the first person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

When the Saucer Strikes! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler ?

Pencils

Paul Reinman

Inks

Paul Reinman

Colors

?

Letters

Artie Simek

Job Number

T-376

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

A airline pilot is nearly hit by a flying saucer and must bank suddenly to avoid it. All of the passengers but one were asleep, and the one who was awake says he didn't see the saucer. He lies because he's actually a Martian tourist and the saucer came to pick him up.

Reprints

• from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #71 (October 1959)

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the first person by the Martian. Possible Wessler script per Nick Caputo from information in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 26, No.4, April 2015. This may be a Wessler inventory story originally titled "Saucer Scare".