Amazing Stories of Suspense #80

The Treasure of the Skull Cave (Table of Contents: 1)

Phantom / comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Script

Dick Wood

Pencils

Bill Lignante

Inks

Bill Lignante ?; Joe Giella ?

Letters

?

Genre

adventure; jungle; superhero

Characters

The Phantom; Cappy Swargo; Pirate Pete; the General; Guran; Bandar

Synopsis

A group of swindlers, con-men, and revolutionaries team up to loot the treasure of the Phantom's Skull Cave, killing him and the Bandar with poison gas. One crook gains entry to the cave by deceit, only to be appalled when the Phantom shows off priceless historical treasures -- worthless antiques to him. When the Phantom and the Bandar round up the gang, the enraged other crooks readily recognize the value of these artifacts, and of the Phantom's "minor" treasure rooms, heaped with gold and jewels.

Reprints

• from The Phantom (King Features, 1966 series) #18 (September 1966)

Keywords

Skull Cave; treasure hunt

Indexer Notes

Told in two parts, 15 and 9 pages long. The second part is called "Treasure of the Skull Cave".

Monsteroso (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee ?

Pencils

Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)

Inks

Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)

Letters

Artie Simek

Job Number

V-105

First Line of Dialogue or Text

A strange egg rests on the ground--shunned by both plant and animal life!

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Monsteroso

Synopsis

A creature hatches from an egg and imagines itself lord of all it surveys, but it is suddenly drowned, as it is only a microbe in a scientist's culture.

Reprints

• from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #18 (April 1961)

Indexer Notes

This story is an altered retelling of "Earth Will Be Destroyed!" drawn by Steve Ditko in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #9 (May 1960). Stan Lee is given a speculative writing credit based on his authorship of another retelling of the same story. Nick Caputo also suspects Lee's scripting as examined in his blog: http://nick-caputo.blogspot.com/2011/11/who-authored-ditko.html

I Was Trapped in Nightmare Valley (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

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

Pencils

Paul Reinman (signed)

Inks

Paul Reinman (signed)

Letters

Artie Simek

Job Number

T-694

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Fool!

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Frank Savage; Maharaja of Banpur

Synopsis

An explorer encounters sentient, extraterrestrial trees in Asian mountains. They plan to spread their pollen all over the Earth, but they are fortuitously destroyed by a volcano.

Reprints

• from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #10 (July 1960)

Keywords

Himalayas

Throw Another Coal on the Fire (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee

Pencils

George Tuska

Inks

George Tuska

Letters

?

Job Number

B-235

Reprints

• from Adventures into Weird Worlds (Marvel, 1952 series) #12 (November 1952)

Menace From Mars (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Letters

?

Genre

science fiction

Reprints

• from Adventures into Weird Worlds (Marvel, 1952 series) #26 (February 1954)

Flash Gordon and the Space Pirates [Part 1] (Table of Contents: 6)

Flash Gordon / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Wally Wood (signed as Wood)

Inks

Wally Wood (signed as Wood)

Letters

Ben Oda

Genre

adventure; science fiction

Characters

Flash Gordon; Dale Arden; Doctor Hans Zarkov; Straker; Patch

Synopsis

While testing a fantastic fuel cell Flash Gordon is forced down and menaced by space pirates. The pirate leader's niece helps him escape, but reveals that her uncle has a powerful organization with which he planes to take over the universe.

Reprints

• from The Phantom (King Features, 1966 series) #18 (September 1966)

Keywords

Piracy; pirates; rocket ship; space ship; space travel

The Monster (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Letters

?

Job Number

SL-3232

Genre

horror-suspense

Reprints

• from Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1950 series) #36 [1] (September 1950)
which is reprinted
• from Marvel Mystery Comics (Marvel, 1939 series) #90 (February 1949)

Beware the Eyes of Igor! (Table of Contents: 8)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

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

Pencils

Paul Reinman (signed)

Inks

Paul Reinman (signed)

Letters

Artie Simek

Job Number

T-758

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Look into my eyes...

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Igor

Synopsis

A hypnotist uses his power to rob a movie theatre, but accidentally hypnotizes himself and forgets the whole plan.

Reprints

• from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #11 (September 1960)

Those Terrible Teen-Agers! (Table of Contents: 9)

comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script

Richard Hughes (credited as Mark S. Durand)

Pencils

Sal Trapani

Inks

Sal Trapani

Letters

?

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Ted Marshall; Victor Virona

Reprints

• from Gasp! (American Comics Group, 1967 series) #1 (March 1967)