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Monster Menace                               Comics Lot
Featuring Marvel horror stories from the 1950’s.  Awesome!!
Cover #1 by: Kyle Baker
Covers #2,3 by: Steve Ditko
Cover #4 by: Floyd Hughes

Monster Menace is a step into the past for modern comics readers, including early art from legends Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby, and written by the inimitable Stan Lee. It featured monster and science-fiction horror stories from titles like Amazing Fantasy and Tales of Suspense featuring monsters like Fin Fang Foom and Tim Boom Ba. Expect outlandish and outrageous vintage monster stories.

Monster Menace (1993 – 1994) Comics Lot contains:Monster Menace #1
“I Spent Midnight with the Thing on Bald Mountain!”
Writer: Stan Lee
Artist: Steve Ditko
Colorist: Stan Goldberg
Letterer: Artie Simek
Editor: Stan Lee

A sculptor builds two statues, one representing good and the other, evil, when lightning strikes the evil one and begins it to life. The evil statue pursues him throughout the castle using its great strength to corner the artist and prepare to hurl him to his doom. Just then the good statue appears and rescues the artist. After he sets him down, the good statue slams into the evil one, knocking him off the rampart, where they both plunge to their seeming destruction. The sculptor muses on the electricity bringing the bad one to life, but he’ll never know what brought the good one to life to save him. Reprinted from Tales to Astonish #7.

“What Lurks on Channel X?”
Writer: Stan Lee
Artist: Jack Kirby
Inker: Dick Ayers
Editor: Stan Lee

A couple in an apartment with a nasty landlord receive a free TV set that turns out to be a plot of Plutonian warriors to enslave Earth by hypnotizing people through the sets in preparation for their landing force. The couple snap out of the hypnosis and the aliens from Pluto realize that their plan has failed and leave Earth. It turns out the landlord took down the antenna that the couple had set up to improve reception of the set, the landlord demands they use the building antenna just like everyone else. The couple express their overwhelming gratitude to the puzzled landlord. Reprinted from Journey into Mystery #73.

“The Terror of Tim Boo Ba”
Writer: Stan Lee
Artist: Steve Ditko
Colorist: Stan Goldberg
Letterer: Artie Simek
Editor: Stan Lee

Alien warlord Tim Boo Ba is master of all he surveys but is wiped out in a torrential flood when an Earth boy drips water on the small-scale model that is Tim Boo Ba’s home planet. Reprinted from Amazing Adult Fantasy #9.

“I Fought the Molten Man-Thing!”
Writer: Stan Lee
Artist: Jack Kirby
Inker: Steve Dikto
Colorist: Stan Goldberg
Letterer: Artie Simek
Editor: Stan Lee

When a volcano erupts on a small island, it spews forth a monster that threatens the villagers. One man gets it to follow him to an aircraft testing area where he turns high-powered blowers onto the creature, cooling down its temperature. It retreats back into the volcano because it needs high temperature to survive. Reprinted from Tales of Suspense #7.
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Monster Menace #2
“When the Totem Walks!”
Writer: Stan Lee
Artist: Steve Ditko
Colorist: Stan Goldberg
Letterer: Artie Simek
Editor: Stan Lee

Two escaped convicts stumble across a tribe of Indians, rob them of food, and plan to shoot them in the morning to eliminate witnesses to their flight. Their totem comes alive during the night in response to the chieftain’s prayers and chases the convicts back to prison. They think they are safe, but the story ends with the totem tearing the iron bars off their cell window while they shrink back in fear from its approach. A note states the story will continue next issue. Reprinted from Stranger Tales #74.

“Save Me from the Weed!”
Writers: Stan Lee & Larry Lieber
Artist: Jack Kirby
Inker: Dick Ayers
Colorist: Stan Goldberg
Letterer: Artie Simek
Editor: Stan Lee

A retired rich man criticizes his gardener as lacking ambition for not opening a landscaping business with his backing. A nearby atomic accident sends radioactive particles into the garden and gives a weed intelligence and the ability to control minds. It forces the wealthy man to sit in a chair and sleep while its powers grow to enslave all humanity. Suddenly the man wakes from his imposed slumber to find that the gardener has snipped up the weed. Sighing in relief, the man realizes that everyone has their place in the greater scheme of things because if the gardener had taken him up on his offer of running his own business instead of just being his gardener, the weed might have taken over the world. Reprinted from Stranger Tales #94.

“I Can’t Escape from the Creeping Things!”
Writer: Stan Lee
Artist: Steve Ditko
Colorist: Stan Goldberg
Letterer: Artie Simek
Editor: Stan Lee

A ruthless businessman buys an estate with a large tree blocking his view, so he attempt to hire some villagers to cut it down but they refuse, stating it is the oldest thing in the village and there would be a curse placed on any who tried to cut it down. The scoffing man takes a few whacks at it with an ax himself but tires quickly and goes to bed. He hears sounds and sees branches of the tree extending into the window, probing after him. He tries to flee the house out of the door, but the tree has used its branches to block the door. The only place left he can run is the basement and he has his back against the wall there as the branches still approach him, when suddenly the dawn light comes through a window and the branches retreat. He finds himself in his bed and thinks it was just a nightmare, but he sees one single branch still in the doorway which convinces him it really happened. The experience has given him a change of heart and he packs his bags to leave the estate and attempt to make up for his underhanded business dealings. Reprinted from Journey into Mystery #62.

“I Fought the Colossus!”
Writer: Stan Lee
Artist: Jack Kirby
Inker: Steve Ditko
Colorist: Stan Goldberg
Letterer: Artie Simek
Editor: Stan Lee

In the year 2020 the computer that governs the world secretly builds a ten-story robot underground and then sends it to the surface. The humans assume that the computer has betrayed them and desires conquest, so they use a magnetic device to lure the robot to a sea cliff where it topples off and is destroyed. They confront the computer as to why it betrayed them, and it denies doing so. It says that it is aware that many people distrust computers, so it built its replacement in a human shape to reassure people. It is growing old and will soon become defective and had to make the robot so large that it could contain all the knowledge required to make capable decisions for governing Earth. “How could you believe that I betrayed you? when betrayal requires emotion and I, I am…a mere machine.” Reprinted from Stranger Tales #72.
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Monster Menace #3
“I Live Again!”
Writer: Stan Lee
Artist: Steve Ditko
Colorist: Stan Goldberg
Letterer: Artie Simek
Editor: Stan Lee

Despite having been shown to be decapitated in the final panel of last issue’s Ditko story, the evil stone giant is back again in this issue. He hatches a plan for world conquest and makes his way to America to begin. When he seeks a place to rest in what is presumably Cape Canaveral, he has the misfortune to enter a rocket that is launched for the outward areas of the solar system. Reprinted from Tales to Astonish #8.

“The Stooge”
Writer: Stan Lee
Artist: Martin Thall
Inkers: Martin Thall & Christopher Rule
Editor: Stan Lee

A circus freak with six hands murders his fat lady wife because, even with six hands, he can’t keep up with all the orders she gives him. Reprinted from Uncanny Tales #6.

“Zzutak The Thing that Shouldn’t Exist”
Writers: Stan Lee & Larry Lieber
Artist: Jack Kirby
Inker: Steve Ditko
Colorist: Stan Goldberg
Letterers: Artie Simek & Ray Holloway
Editor: Stan Lee

An Aztec elder seeks out an American comic book artist to paint creatures using magic paints so as to build an army from the 3D creatures the paint creates. The artist is hypnotized by the paints to travel to Mexico and create ZZutak, but after hearing the elder’s plans, he mutters under his breath “ZZutak is your enemy” while painting the second figure. When the magic paint brings the second figure into existence, his plan has worked, and it begins a battle with ZZutak. The elder attempts to get them to stop fighting, but they ignore him. They damage the temple supports, and the edifice crashes down upon all three of them. The elder escapes, but as he was struck by a falling stone, he has developed amnesia and his plans for conquest are lost forever. Reprinted from Stranger Tales #88.
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Monster Menace #4
“The Return of the Totem!”
Writer: Stan Lee
Artist: Steve Ditko
Colorist: Stan Goldberg
Letterer: Artie Simek
Editor: Stan Lee

Unexpectedly, the totem breaks off its attack on the two convicts and returns to menace the Indian village. The tribe hides in a cave while the chieftain concocts a potion to deaminate it. He catches up with it as the totem is herding a bunch of hikers to their doom over a cliff, and tosses the potion into one of its mouths, causing it to topple over into the river. Although the chieftain has suffered a mortal injury, he is satisfied he has removed the threat that he had created as the totem drifts out to sea. Reprinted from Strange Tales #75.

“Orrgo… The Unconquerable!”
Writers: Stan Lee & Larry Lieber
Artist: Jack Kirby
Inker: Dick Ayers
Colorist: Stan Goldberg
Letterer: Ray Holloway
Editor: Stan Lee

An alien with powers similar to X-Men’s Proteus lands at a circus and hypnotizes the humans of the surrounding area while he rests. A ravenous gorilla breaks from his cage, and “sensing” that Orrgo is the cause of his discomfort, kills the alien in his sleep thus ending the threat. Reprinted from Strange Tales #90.

“I Dared to Battle Rorgg, King of the Spider Men!”
Writers: Stan Lee & Larry Lieber
Artist: Jack Kirby
Inker: Dick Ayers
Colorist: Stan Goldberg
Letterer: Artie Simek
Editor: Stan Lee

Rorgg invades a small New Mexico town and our boy hero kills him dead with a spray can of DDT. Reprinted from Journey into Mystery #64.
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All First Printings
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Publication Date: 1993 – 1994
Format per comic: FC, 32 pages, Comic, 10.25″ x 6.75″
UPC: 759606040629

Collectible Entertainment note: Comics 1,2,3,4 are in Fine – to Fine condition.  (spine stress)  Overall… Nice Set!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Stan Lee, Monster and/or Horror collector / enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Highly Recommended.

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