STRANGE TALES #103 (1963)
But for the inclusion of Human Torch, this story could almost be a generic Strange Tale.
Human Torch literally happens upon some invaders from “the 5th Dimension,” gets captured, taken to their home, incites a revolution…
…gets a groupie…
…And then goes back home.
This is pretty much how dozens of Moses-adjacent sci-fi stories go.
Roy Thomas will bring back the girl, Valeria, and Xemu and Phineas (also from this story) in a couple FF issues in 1975, so I’m tagging them here.
TALES TO ASTONISH #38 (1962): 1st Egghead!
We meet Egghead for the first time #38, Ant man’s first arch enemy, who traps him in flypaper. Here’s his “origin,” which is nothing you couldn’t have anticipated: So, he’s…
Tales to Astonish #27 (1962): 1st Hank Pym
In “The Man in the Ant Hill,” Dr. Henry Pym discovers Pym Particles, which can make him shrink to the size of an ant. The idea of shrinking was certainly…
TALES TO ASTONISH #36-37 (1962)
I’m grouping these two issues together because, collectively, they’re less than a full comic book worth of Marvel 616 story. Two short Hank Pym tales, with nothing of great importance. …
JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #86-87 (1962): 1st Odin and The Uru Hammer
Stan Lee only takes credit for plotting these stories, and lets his bro write the scripts, and Kirby gets pencil credits but the art is not very Kirbyish in many…