Strange Worlds #2 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1959

About Strange Worlds #2

Steve Ditko cover and art. Don Heck, Dick Ayers, and Al Williamson art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: I Was a Prisoner on the Planet of Plunder!

Pencils: Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks: Steve Ditko (signed)

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: I Was a 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 (signed)

Inks: Don Heck (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #2 ([September] 1963)

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

Title: Strange Mission

Characters: Alfred Pook; Harold; Dr. Smith

Synopsis: A man becomes confused over directions to the dentist and as a result accidentally pilots an expedition to claim a new planet.

Pages: 2.000

Pencils: Joe Maneely (illustration)

Inks: Joe Maneely (illustration)

Letters: typeset

Notes: Text story with illustration.

Title: I Was the Miracle Man

Characters: Bruno Storme; Henry Stubbs

Synopsis: A brilliant but cruel businessman sets out to conquer an alien world. When he finds one he discovers that the inhabitants are far more mentally advanced then humans, possessing psychic powers. He is little more than an animal to them, and is displayed in a zoo.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Al Williamson ?

Inks: Marvin Stein ?

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Penciler credit and job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Possible Stein inks per Jim Vadeboncouer and Nick Caputo.

Title: I Saw the Day the World Ended!

Characters: Prof. Grath; Gen. Kane; Craig; Mr. Kane

Synopsis: A machine seems to show the end of the world when the Sun burns out in the future. Panic and dispair spread until it is realized that the machine actually showed the creation of the sun in reverse.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Bob Bean ?

Inks: Bob Bean ?

Letters: John Duffy ?

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

Title: The Little Lost Planet

Synopsis: A tiny lost planet does good deeds on Earth until it is located by its mother planet and returned to its home galaxy.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Steve Ditko

Inks: Steve Ditko

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Narrated in the third 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

Pencils: Dick Ayers (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers (signed)

Letters: Dick Ayers

Reprints: Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #2 ([September] 1963)

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

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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	1	1	1	1	3	3	4	3	10	7	8	4	4	4	4	3	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	64
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	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	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	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Total	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	3	3	4	3	10	7	8	6	5	4	4	3	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	67

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