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  • Amazing Adult Fantasy Vol 1 11
Inker1
  • Steve Ditko
Inker1
  • Steve Ditko
Editor-in-Chief
  • Stan Lee
Writer1
  • Stan Lee
Penciler1
  • Steve Ditko
Writer1
  • Stan Lee
StoryTitle
  • In Human Form
  • For the Rest of Your Life
  • The Ice Monster Cometh
  • The Secret of the Universe
  • Where Walks the Ghost
Penciler1
  • Steve Ditko
Appearing
  • Featured Characters: * Supporting Characters: * Adversaries: * Other Characters: * Locations: * Items: * Vehicles: *
  • Featured Characters: * Hugo Bogg Supporting Characters: * Adversaries: * Other Characters: * Abominable Snowman/Ice-Monster Locations: * Europe Items: * Vehicles: *
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CoverArtist
  • Steve Ditko
Country
  • USA
Month
  • April
Synopsis
  • An advance scout for an alien invasion attempts to ascertain which Earth life is the dominant form in order to present its demands to the rulers. The creature is a shape-shifter and so it plans to mimic the ruler's appearance. When it lands, it rightly rejects cows, birds and squirrels as the dominant form and heads to the city. When it views humans, it assumes they are slaves of the four-legged creatures who lead them about on tethers. It observes an automobile devour both a human and a dog and assumes the automobile superior to them both. The creature has a difficult time deciding which life form to morph into when it spies flies and concludes they must be dominant due to their power of flight and ubiquitous presence. The alien is promptly swatted and the invasion is called off since their scout has been slain.
  • A reverse ghost story that leads the reader to believe that a young man in the civil war has been slain and returns to his waiting parents in the form of a ghost when the last panel reveals that the young man is still within the land of the living and the waiting parents are ghosts who were killed during artillery shelling.
  • A jewel thief buries his loot under a tree in a European village where the people have a superstitious belief in an ice monster. After he returns to the scene of the crime years later when the police commissioner has died, he finds to his dismay that a new village has been built around the tree and so he doesn't know how he is going to be able to dig up the loot unnoticed. He overhears the people refer to the ice monster and so he gets the idea to make a costume and appear before the locals to scare them off while he recovers his ill-gotten gain. His disguise works too well, for the villagers are scared off, but he attracts the attention of the real ice monster who is lonely and carries him off back to the mountains with him.
  • A rocket is built which travels faster than light in order to probe the edge of the visible universe, but the volunteer pilot de-ages to infancy during the trip, curing him of his terminal disease.
  • In the year 2061 a car thief decides that Earth is too hot for crime and heads for Jupiter where he has heard that judges give light sentences. When is apprehended and sentenced to life in prison, he is shocked. He soon finds that Jupiter's prisons are worse than Earth's. A fellow prisoner tells him of a way out, and he follows the tunnel past a couple of monsters to the outside, where he thinks he is free since the guards will assume he perished in the tunnel. What he doesn't realize is that he's been hypnotized, and that he still remains in his cell, as the warden comments "He will not harm society, and everyone thinks Jupiter has the best prisons since our prisoners are so happy."
Notes
  • * "The Ice Monster Cometh" reprinted in Giant-Size Man-Thing #1
Publisher
  • Marvel Comics
Year
  • 1962