Best Place to Sell Strange Tales Annual #2

Publisher: Marvel, 1963

About Strange Tales Annual #2

Fourth appearance of Spider-Man, his first crossover. Invisible Girl appearance. Spidey battles the Human Torch. Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko cover and art (cover features Spider-Man drawn without his chest logo). Contains Atlas reprints by Kirby, Ditko, Don Heck, Joe Sinnott, John Buscema, and Dick Ayers.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man Face-to-Face With... The Human Torch

Characters: Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Spider-Man

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Sol Brodsky?

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Nick Caputo says "Cover inks are not by Ditko, according to Ditko himself. Neither are they by Ayers, according to his record books. I suspect the inking is by Sol Brodsky."

STORY DETAILS

(11 Stories)

Title: On the Trail of the Amazing Spider-Man!

Characters: Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Fox [Reynard Slinker] (introduction); Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Deputy Police Inspector Rudd

Synopsis: An art thief frames Spider-Man and the Human Torch tries to hunt him down. Spider-Man convinces the Torch of his innocence, and the two track down the thief together.

Pages: 18.000

Script: Stan Lee

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Steve Ditko

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Giant-Size Spider-Man (Marvel, 1974 series) #1 (July 1974)

Notes: Features Spider-Man's first rendezvous with the Torch on top of the Statue of Liberty, which was referenced many times since.

Title: I Was the Invisible Man!

Characters: Adam Clayton (only appearance)

Synopsis: A scientist invents a device that allows him to run faster than light, becoming invisible. He uses this ability to anonymously show off, planning to soon reveal his discovery and become rich. However, traveling so fast ages him rapidly, so that after only a few weeks he is elderly and near death.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Jack Kirby ?

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Christopher Rule

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

Title: I Was Prisoner on the Planet of Plunder!

Characters: Rick Dugan

Synopsis: An interstellar detective takes a cargo pilot's place to find out how ships are being robbed without anyone remembering anything. On an unarmed planet, the natives try to take his cargo and hypnotize him with sound waves, it doesn't work because the detective is deaf.

Pages: 5.000

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

Pencils: Don Heck

Inks: Don Heck

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Narrated in the first person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

Title: I Am Robot

Characters: Thorne

Synopsis: A man creates a robot so advanced that it has the capacity to think and feel as a human. He entrusts his son to it, but when the robot is damaged while defending the child from alien abductors, the scientist's suspicious wife is convinced that it malfunctioned, and he abandons the project.

Pages: 5.000

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

Letters: John Duffy ?

Notes: Narrated in the first person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

Title: I Was The Man Who Lived Twice!

Characters: Gyor Kosice; Maria

Synopsis: A boy adopted by gypsies refuses to work hard and lives a wasted life. As he reaches middle ages he is given a second chance at life when he is shown a fountain of youth and returned to infancy, to be found and adopted by another gypsy couple.

Pages: 5.000

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

Pencils: John Buscema

Inks: John Buscema

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Narrated in the first person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

Title: I Am the Scourge of Atlantis!

Characters: Ogarth; Cnidos

Synopsis: The king of Atlantis is convinced that life still exists on the surface and leads an invasion fleet to make war on the world above. He finds that in the centuries since Atlantis sunk the pressures of the sea have made his people tiny as insects compared to surface humans, and they must return beneath the waves.

Pages: 5.000

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

Pencils: Dick Ayers

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: Dick Ayers

Notes: Narrated in the first person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

Title: I Captured the Abominable Snowman!

Synopsis: A man lies, cheats and steals to find the abominable snowman, and eventually discovers a lama who knows the secret of the snowman and is forced to summon it. He discovers that the snowman was a greedy man like him, cursed to wear a bestial form until another took his place. He is horrified as the snowman becomes human and he is transformed into a monster.

Pages: 6.000

Pencils: Steve Ditko

Inks: Steve Ditko

Letters: Art Simek

Notes: Narrated in the first person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Creative credits from index of original printing.

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