Amazing Stories of Suspense #167

([circa 1978 - 1979])

When He Presses the Button! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Ed Winiarski

Inks

Ed Winiarski

Letters

?

Job Number

L-307

Reprints

• from Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #60 (April 1957) [black and white]

The House of Fear! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

John Forte (signed)

Inks

John Forte (signed)

Letters

?

Job Number

L-355

Synopsis

A man and a woman enter a creepy house when they are confronted by a spectral figure. The woman is terrified and wishes to flee, the skeptical man assures her the figure can only be hoax to frighten away the ignorant. He even reaches out to touch it, despite her objections. After he has made contact with the figure, he says even the house looks normal now and that it must have been some hypnotic spell that made it appear dilapidated. The woman backs away from him, horrified by his skeletal appearance, and shrieks "No! It looks normal to you now...Because you're DEAD!"

Reprints

• from Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #60 (April 1957) [black and white]

Indexer Notes

Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.

The Dragon's Roar! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed)

Letters

?

Job Number

L86

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Synopsis

A communist general decides to make an example of defiant villagers who celebrate the new year against his orders by building a dragon float with machine gunners inside to open fire upon the revelers. When the float gets to the center of the parade another dragon appears which the communist soldiers take to be another float, but it is real and attacks and destroys them, sparing the villagers.

Reprints

• from Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #58 (February 1957) [black and white]

The Secret! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Jim Mooney

Inks

Jim Mooney

Letters

?

Job Number

K183

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Synopsis

A man gains his fortune by selling mud in beauty treatments gathered for him by mermaids.

Reprints

• from Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #58 (February 1957) [black and white]

The Inventor (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Gene Colan ?

Inks

Gene Colan ?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

J-215

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Characters

Joe; Timothy Braun

Synopsis

A teenager is inventing a mechanical potato peeler, but a supernatural figure stops him to preserve the culture of hand-peeling potatoes in kitchens.

Reprints

• from Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #58 (February 1957) [black and white]
which is reprinted
• from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #47 (May 1956) [as "The Inventor"]

The Changeling (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

John Forte (signed)

Inks

John Forte (signed)

Letters

?

Job Number

K668

Synopsis

The mayor and three children devise a scheme to cheat an old man out of his property.

Reprints

• from Strange Stories of Suspense (Marvel, 1955 series) #12 (December 1956) [black and white]

The Secret of the Graveyard! (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Herb Familton (signed)

Inks

Herb Familton (signed)

Letters

?

Job Number

K572

Synopsis

Two hunters find out that the elephant's graveyard is a cave with a quicksand floor.

Reprints

• from Strange Stories of Suspense (Marvel, 1955 series) #12 (December 1956) [black and white]

They Can't Resist! (Table of Contents: 8)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Manny Stallman

Inks

Manny Stallman

Letters

?

Job Number

K464

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

An alien from Ganymede gives a disk to a man hoping his curiosity will cause him to trigger a release of gas from the disk when he looks at it which will allow the aliens to invade easily, but the man tosses the disk into the river as he is blind.

Reprints

• from Strange Stories of Suspense (Marvel, 1955 series) #12 (December 1956) [black and white]

Magic Words! (Table of Contents: 9)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Russ Heath (signed)

Inks

Russ Heath (signed)

Letters

?

Job Number

G653

Reprints

• from Strange Stories of Suspense (Marvel, 1955 series) #5 (October 1955) [black and white]

The Man Who Took a Walk! (Table of Contents: 10)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Paul S. Newman

Pencils

Robert Q. Sale (signed)

Inks

Robert Q. Sale (signed)

Letters

?

Job Number

G-786

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Synopsis

A man from Atlantis tours the scientific achievements of the surface world.

Reprints

• from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #41 (November 1955) [black and white]

I Wore...The Mask of Drothor! (Table of Contents: 11)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks

Steve Ditko (signed)

Letters

Artie Simek

Job Number

T-745

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Markas; Drothor (flashback)

Synopsis

An artist creates a mask based on the face of an ancient sorcerer. He robs a mansion wearing this mask, but his face has transformed to match it.

Reprints

• from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #11 (September 1960) [black and white]

Indexer Notes

This is a retelling of "Who Hides Beneath My Mask?" drawn by Dick Ayers in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #6 (November 1959).

Speed-Trapped (Table of Contents: 12)

Rookie Cop / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Joe Gill ?

Pencils

Bill Molno

Inks

Bill Molno ?

Letters

Jon D'Agostino

Genre

crime

Characters

Officer Joe Ford; Officer Dan Kerscher; Al (villain)

Reprints

• from Rookie Cop (Charlton, 1955 series) #28 (March 1956) [black and white]