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Issue: Monsters on the Prowl #24
Publication Date: August 1973
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Issues: #24 of 22 Issues (28 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 40
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.20 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Roy Thomas
Disclose Notes: Issue includes 4 page advertising insert for Mark Jewelers in some copies.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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This Is...Magnetor!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby; John Romita (see notes)
Inker(s): Dick Ayers; John Romita (see notes)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Magnetor [Hunk Ranken]
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #84 [U.S. Cover Price] published May 1961
was This is...Magneto! [Illustration on Cover, Front]as "This is...Magnetor!"; original title "This Is...Magneto!"
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Wonder of the Ages!!! Magnetor!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)
Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Sam Rosen (page 1-6); Artie Simek (page 7-13)
Editor(s): Stan Lee (original story)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): unnamed con man; Magnetor [Hunk Larken]
Synopsis: A strong but dim man is exploited for profit by a con man and then abandoned, unable to find work except in a freak show. His unusual size is thought to make him the perfect passenger for an experimental space flight, but a strange cloud gives him magnetic powers. Angry at his previous humiliation, he attacks society and runs amok until a special rocket is created to allow him to leave Earth and find somewhere where he can fit in.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #84 [U.S. Cover Price] published May 1961
was The Wonder of the Ages!!! Magneto! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: V-150
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. Magnetor was originally called Magneto but name has been altered in all panels except the bottom panel of page 11, where it is still Magneto. Story in two parts: unnumbered part one (6 pp.) and "Magnetor!" Part Two (7 pp.).
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Shangri-La

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Everett
Inker(s): Bill Everett
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Rosen
Editor(s): Stan Lee (original story)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Synopsis: A man makes it back from Shangri-La only to be informed that the man he spoke with, whom he takes to be mad, actually left for the valley four hundred years ago.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Unknown Worlds #55 published March 1957
was Shangri-La [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: L-241
Disclose Notes: reprint credit from atlastales.com
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They Met on Mars!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee ?
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko
Inker(s): Steve Ditko
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Editor(s): Stan Lee (original story)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Two unrecognizable beings land on Mars and fight. One of them destroys the other's ship and escapes, with the two never knowing that they were both human space travelers: one from the United States, one from the Soviet Union.
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #84 [U.S. Cover Price] published May 1961
was They Met on Mars! [Story on Interior Page(s)]retouched into a SHIELD vs Hydra story
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-149
Disclose Notes: Story has been altered to add references to S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra in the text balloons.
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More Miniaturized Mouthfuls of Marvel-ous Mutterings! (Or: Not Only Is Dracula Alive and Well - but He's Got Company!)

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Marvel Bullpen Bulletins
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
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