([circa 1979 - 1980])
Alan Class,
1963 Series
- Price
- 0.20 GBP
- Pages
- 52
- On-sale Date
- 1979 ?
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Alan Class & Co. Ltd
- Brand
-
AC Class Series
- Editing
- Alan Class (reprint editor)
Issue Notes
Issue is undated. Estimated date based on analysis of brands and cover prices in the series.
The Thing From the Hidden Swamp!/Return of the Gorilla-Man!
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Sol Brodsky
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original editor)
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- "Thing from the Hidden Swamp" (only referred to as such in title); Mary Brown; Gorilla-Man [Franz Radzic]
- Reprints
-
from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #30 (April 1962)
-
The Thing from the Hidden Swamp
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Dick Ayers
- Letters
- John Duffy
- Job Number
- V-587
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There's no place quite as eerie as a dark, secluded swamp...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Mary Brown; "The Thing from the Hidden Swamp" (only referred to as such in title)
- Synopsis
- A plain girl helps a stranded alien, and is made beautiful as a reward.
- Reprints
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #30 (April 1962)
-
The Return of the Gorilla-Man
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Dick Ayers
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number
- [V-586] ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- He's back!!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Gorilla-Man [Franz Radzik]; Professor Stuyvesant
- Synopsis
- The Gorilla-Man escapes and tries to get himself transformed back into a human, but instead he is blasted into space in an experimental space capsule.
- Reprints
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #30 (April 1962)
-
The Day Before Doomsday!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?; Artie Simek (splash)
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- John Peterson; Premier Zorkon
- Synopsis
- A US scientist defects to the USSR and builds a large dome to protect their leaders from retaliation, allowing a massive strike on the US. The dome is really a pod to launch them into space.
- Reprints
- from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #99 (August 1962)
-
A Switch in Time!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Karl Kargon
- Synopsis
- In the year 2050 a prisoner reads about the invention of a time machine and so breaks jail to return to the past to rub out the one witness to his crime. However, as he attempts to assault the man, he realizes that he has been rendered intangible like a ghost so as to be unable to effect any change in the course of events.
- Reprints
- from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #99 (August 1962)
-
Not All Gold Glitters
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Joe Gill ?
- Pencils
- Bill Molno
- Inks
- Sal Trapani ?
- Letters
- Jon D'Agostino
- Job Number
- S664
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Reprints
- from Unusual Tales (Charlton, 1955 series) #6 (February 1957)
-
The Mark of the Toad
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-537
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- King John; Prince Charles
- Synopsis
- An evil uncle tries to kill a boy king, but his magic backfires and turns him into a toad.
- Reprints
- from Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series) #10 (March 1962)
-
The Eyes of the Mummy!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
- Pencils
- Joe Sinnott
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott
- Letters
- Terry Szenics
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Want a real fantastic tale?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Harry Sloan; Mrs. Sloan; Sadie
- Synopsis
- A crook steals a jewel from an ancient mummy, but the dead pharaoh's hypnotic powers make him see only death until he returns it.
- Reprints
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #42 (April 1963)
-
- Keywords
- Tut-Am-Tut's amulet
Man on a Tightrope
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-538
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Flippo Jones; Mr. Barning; Patty Barning
- Synopsis
- A young girl is friends with a tightrope walker past his prime. The man is killed in his last act, but his ghost returns to make his friend well again.
- Reprints
- from Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series) #10 (March 1962)
-
I Speak of the Haunted House!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko
- Inks
- Steve Ditko
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- X-181
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Like haunted house stories??
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Rodney; Smith
- Synopsis
- Two friends make a bet about the existence of ghosts in a haunted house. The doubting friend thinks he saw no ghosts, but the house itself is a ghost.
- Reprints
- from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #42 (June 1963)
-
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Thing From the Hidden Swamp!/Return of the Gorilla-Man!
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1.
The Thing from the Hidden Swamp
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2.
The Return of the Gorilla-Man
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3.
The Day Before Doomsday!
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4.
A Switch in Time!
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5.
Not All Gold Glitters
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6.
The Mark of the Toad
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7.
The Eyes of the Mummy!
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8.
Man on a Tightrope
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9.
I Speak of the Haunted House!
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