Strange Tales #102

Cover Date: November 1962 Plot Overview: The Wizard watches a newsreel of the Human Torch defeating the Destroyer from the previous issue. He decides that he's going to use his powers to defeat the Human Torch. He uses a machine and pretends to be captured and draws the Human Torch out to save him....

Incredible Hulk #4

Cover Date: November 1962 Plot Overview: Betty Ross details how she met Bruce Banner and how he was involved in the gamma bomb explosion. She recounts how the Hulk first showed up around then too. She realizes that there's a connection between Rick Jones and both Banner and the Hulk. She goes to...

Journey Into Mystery #86

Cover Date: November 1962 Plot Overview: The future was become a peaceful place except for one man. He is a scientist named Zarrko. He's built a time machine and heads back to the past to find a destructive weapon to conquer the future with. Meanwhile in 1962, Thor is helping the U.S. military...

Tales to Astonish #37

Cover Date: November 1962 Plot Overview: Ant-Man responds to a police call. He arrives at a local jeweler and learns that a man calling himself the Protector has been shaking down the local jewelers. He has a disintegration ray that he'll use to destroy the jewels and maybe even the jewelers themselves....

Fantastic Four #8

Cover Date: November 1962 Plot Overview: The Thing decides to leave the Fantastic Four after Reed won't let him into the lab. Sue follows him and tries to convince him to return. As they're talking they see a man climbing the bridge and preparing to jump. Reed and the Torch save the day. The scene...

Strange Tales #101

Cover Date: October 1962 Plot Overview: A local amusement park has received several threats in the mail by a man calling himself the Destroyer. Several attempts at sabotage are made but the Human Torch makes the save each and every time. The Destroyer finally challenges the Human Torch to a battle....

Journey Into Mystery #85

Cover Date: October 1962 Plot Overview: Loki manages to escape his imprisonment in a tree on Asgard and comes to Earth in search of Thor. Loki arrives on Earth and uses his magic to draw Thor out of hiding. Loki challenges him to a battle in the air. As Thor follows, Loki uses his magic to hypnotize...

Tales to Astonish #36

Cover Date: October 1962 Plot Overview: The Communists have called upon Comrade X to capture Ant-Man so that they can learn the secrets of his ability to shrink. They want to use it so they can invade other countries undetected. Meanwhile in the United States a woman has arrived at the police...

Fantastic Four #7

Cover Date: October 1962 Plot Overview: Planet X is being menaced by a runaway asteroid. Kurrgo sends one of the only two rockets they have to Earth to fetch the Fantastic Four. Meanwhile, the Fantastic Four are arguing about attending a very important dinner in D.C. Sue, Johnny and Thing all seem...

Incredible Hulk #3

Cover Date: September 1962 Plot Overview: The issue begins with Hulk locked in the secret cave room that they discovered previously. Rick heads off to get some sleep but gets picked up by the military. General Ross meets with Rick and tells him that they need the Hulk to test a rocket. Rick mulls...

Journey Into Mystery #84

Cover Date: September 1962 Plot Overview: We start off with a recap of the last issue. The Kronans actually appear red in this issue instead of the greenish yellow they actually were. We come to present day as Dr. Don Blake and his nurse Jane Foster are making rounds. Blake is in love with Foster...

Tales to Astonish #35

Cover Date: September 1962 Plot Overview: We start with a recap of the events of Tales to Astonish #27. Then we join Pym in the present as he decides to remake the formula. He feels that maybe one day mankind will be ready for the serum. He also makes an electronic helmet to communicate with ants...

Fantastic Four #6

Cover Date: September 1962 Plot Overview: Sue arrives at the Baxter Building and finds the other members of the FF. There's been no sign of Dr. Doom since they battled him last issue. They go through some fan mail and then the scene shifts to the sea. Namor is out swimming with the fish of the...

Amazing Fantasy #15

Cover Date: August 1962 Plot Overview: Peter Parker is a social outcast that lives with his Aunt May and Uncle Ben. One day Peter heads to a science demonstration. A spider crawls through the test and becomes radioactive and bites Peter before it dies. Peter leaves the scene and discovers that...