Fantastic Four #15

Cover Date: June 1963 Plot Overview: Each member of the Fantastic Four is acting fairly disgruntled and restless as the issue opens. Meanwhile, the Mad Thinker gathers the biggest mobsters in New York so that he can become a king of crime. He has made a foolproof plan to get rid of the Fantastic...

Strange Tales #108

Cover Date: May 1963 Plot Overview: An artist named Van Vile approaches a local mobster and demonstrates his powers. Whatever he paints comes to life and follows his orders. The artist goes into his story of how he was counterfeiting money and the Human Torch captured him. He also talks about how...

Journey Into Mystery #92

Cover Date: May 1963 Plot Overview: The issue starts with Neri approaching Heimdall at the Bifrost. Heimdall stops her in case she may be Loki. Neri points to Loki chained to a tree and Heimdall lets her pass. Loki sulks and promises he'll show everyone why he's the god of evil. We switch scenes...

Amazing Spider-Man #2

Cover Date: May 1963 Plot Overview: In the first story the Vulture has been terrorizing the city with a series of crimes. No one has been able to stop him due to his flying suit. J. Jonah Jameson puts the pressure on his editors to get him some pictures of the Vulture. Meanwhile, Peter Parker sees...

Tales of Suspense #41

Cover Date: May 1963 Plot Overview: Tony Stark has donated $100,000 to a local hospital and has set up Iron Man to do a demonstration at the local children's hospital. Tony's date asks why he can't get married and Tony explains all of his scientific ventures to her. Tony also thinks about how he...

Tales to Astonish #43

Cover Date: May 1963 Plot Overview: Ant-Man runs into a crowd of admirers and makes a hasty retreat as the issue opens. We switch scenes to Professor Elias Weems. He's excited that his grandson is coming to visit him but tragedy strikes a week later when he's fired for being too old. Weems panics...

Fantastic Four #14

Cover Date: May 1963 Plot Overview: The Fantastic Four return from the moon with much fanfare. They get absolutely mobbed by their adoring public and with the help of the Torch escape back to the Baxter Building. Reed catches Sue looking for Namor and realizes that for all of his accomplishments...

Strange Tales #107

Cover Date: April 1963 Plot Overview: Johnny arrives home from school as Reed and the Thing are leaving. They mention that they were comparing notes of their last adventure for the next issue of the Fantastic Four. Johnny is a little bummed out not to be included. He decides that he needs to do...

Journey Into Mystery #91

Cover Date: April 1963 Plot Overview: Thor tries to thwart a bank robbery but the bank suddenly disappears. The people inside the bank reappear but can't remember anything that happened. Thor suspects Loki but is informed by Odin that Loki is in Asgard being punished for his last caper on Earth....

Tales of Suspense #40

Cover Date: April 1963 Plot Overview: This issue opens and goes about establishing that Tony Stark is a scientist, a playboy and a superhero. It also shows that Stark has to recharge his chest plate from time to time to keep his heart beating. Last issue, he of course suffered an injury where shrapnel...

Tales to Astonish #42

Cover Date: April 1963 Plot Overview: Jason Cragg sets up shop on a soap box and begins preaching for the citizens of Central City to hate the Ant-Man. Ant-Man wanders by and sees the events but his helmet protects him from Cragg's voice. We learn that a near radioactive accident gave Cragg a voice...

Fantastic Four #13

Cover Date: April 1963 Plot Overview: The FF head to the moon to test a new kind of rocket fuel that Reed has discovered. Meanwhile, the Red Ghost plans to head to the moon to claim it for Russia. The Red Ghost has also trained a team of apes to help him. The first part of the Red Ghost's plans...

Strange Tales #106

Cover Date: March 1963 Plot Overview: Carl Zante arrives at the Human Torch's house and asks Sue to see him. Johnny finally arrives and is shocked to find out that his secret identity hasn't really been a secret for all of this time. Zante has a proposal for the Torch. He wants the Torch to team...

Journey Into Mystery #90

Cover Date: March 1963 Plot Overview: The Xartans depart to conquer Earth as the issue opens. Meanwhile, Dr. Don Blake struggles over revealing himself to Jane Foster. As he's about to finally reveal himself as Thor, Odin shows up and tells him not to. Blake heads out into the city and finds that...

Amazing Spider-Man #1

Cover Date: March 1963 Plot Overview: This issue picks right up where Amazing Fantasy left off. Aunt May is unable to pay the rent due to the loss of Uncle Ben's income. Peter decides to start performing publicly as Spider-Man again to bring in some money for the family. Unfortunately for him,...

Incredible Hulk #6

Cover Date: March 1963 Plot Overview: The Hulk returns to his hideout and once again becomes Bruce Banner. Banner is getting weaker with each dose of gamma radiation. He sees on the view screen where a military test is interrupted by an alien calling himself the Metal Master. He can control metal...

Tales of Suspense #39

Cover Date: March 1963 Plot Overview: Millionaire playboy Tony Stark has invented a new transistor and heads to Vietnam to show it off for the military. Stark accidentally steps on a land mine and wakes up in the camp of Wong-Chu. Stark has shrapnel heading towards his heart and only has a few days...

Tales to Astonish #41

Cover Date: March 1963 Plot Overview: The issue opens with Hank arriving at his friend Paul's house. No one answers the door so Hank becomes Ant-Man to check things out. No one is home and over the next few weeks more scientists disappear. A few days later, a window washer arrives at Hank's lab....