Fear #3 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1971

About Fear #3

Jack Kirby cover.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Zzutak! The Thing That Shouldn't Exist!

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Steve Ditko

Letters: Artie Simek; Sam Rosen

STORY DETAILS

(9 Stories)

Title: Zzutak the Thing That Shouldn't Exist!!

Characters: Frank Johnson (introduction); Yucoya-Tzin (introduction, not named); Zzutak (introduction, origin); Zzutak's enemy (introduction, origin)

Synopsis: An American comic book artist is given magic paints which make whatever is painted with them real. He is compelled to go to Mexico and paint a monster as planned by the Aztec priest who gave him the paints. When he is ordered to paint more monsters, the artist uses his willpower to make his next monster fight the first, causing the temple to collapse on both monsters, giving the priest amnesia and ending his threat.

Pages: 13.000

Script: Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Steve Ditko

Letters: Artie Simek; Ray Holloway ?

Notes: Narrated in the first person. Frank Johnson, Yucoya-Tzin, Zzutak and Zzutak's enemy all next appear in Fantastic Four Unlimited (Marvel, 1993 series) #7 (September 1994).

Title: The Man Who Hated Monstro!

Characters: Karl Krumm; Monstro

Synopsis: A star acrobat is jealous of a popular gorilla at his circus and torments it. Finally, he arranges for the gorilla to break free so that it will be shot, but it has enough strength left to swing out on the trapeze to get revenge.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)

Pencils: Paul Reinman

Inks: Paul Reinman

Letters: Artie Simek

Title: The Gentle Old Man!

Characters: Gregory "Greedy" Grundy

Synopsis: A greedy landlord is captured by a time traveler who maintains a collection of 'dolls' consisting of miniaturized heartless people from different eras.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee

Pencils: Steve Ditko

Inks: Steve Ditko

Letters: Artie Simek

Title: Journey Into Nowhere!

Characters: Walter Johnson; Thomas Blake

Synopsis: Two scientists working on a time machine have differing opinions about the possibility of traveling into the future. When their attempt to do so seems to take them to the stone age, they believe they have proved travel into the future impossible, not suspecting that they actually saw the world after the destruction of civilization by war.

Pages: 4.000

Script: Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?

Pencils: Joe Sinnott

Inks: Joe Sinnott

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Narrated in the second person.

Title: A Monster Waits Outside!!

Characters: Maj. Ford

Synopsis: An astronaut is sent into orbit in a tiny sphere without communication. He sees a monster trying to claw its way in and panics, signalling ground control to bring him back. They think that it was a hallucination, but they find a broken claw on the spacecraft.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee ?

Pencils: Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks: Steve Ditko (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Narrated in the second person.

Title: Save Me! Save Me!

Characters: Albert Poole

Synopsis: A scientist makes himself able to walk on water in order to steal secret military plans from a ship. But when he returns to the shore he finds that he now sinks on land.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?

Pencils: Paul Reinman (signed)

Inks: Paul Reinman (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Narrated in the first person.

Title: The Lifeless Man!

Characters: Joey Clark

Synopsis: A young boy prefers an old wooden toy soldier to more modern toys. His friends make fun of the toy, but when they are threatened by a bear the soldier seems to drive it off with its rifle, and from then on they all love toy soldiers.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks: Steve Ditko (signed)

Letters: Ray Holloway ?

Title: I Dared to Battle...Rorgg King of the Spider Men!!

Characters: Rorgg; Tim; Frank; Ann

Synopsis: Rorgg invades a small New Mexico town and our boy hero kills him dead with a spray can of DDT.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?

Pencils: Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Narrated in the first person.

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	3	1	1	4	6	7	11	15	4	2	0	0	58
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	3	1	1	4	6	7	12	15	4	2	0	0	59

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