World of Fantasy #16 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1959

About World of Fantasy #16

All Williamson, Jack Kirby, and Steve Ditko art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Prison, 2,000 A.D.

Characters: John Fox

Pencils: Carl Burgos; Bob Forgione ? (see notes)

Inks: Carl Burgos; Bob Forgione ? (see notes)

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: From GCD Error #5411 (20 November 2010), Tom Orzechowski states there is a stylization similarity to this cover and and the splash page to Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #2, "The cover shows a solid stylistic similarity to the splash page in Tales to Astonish #2's story "I Spent Eternity in a Deep Freeze." That story is credited to Bob Forgione. ...Toward center right, just this side of the control room, there's detailing that follows the curvature of the gated window for no reason at all, and otherwise is inconsistent with its own angles. Likewise, there's wainscoting, a view screen and some rivets just behind the blurb, on an angle and level inconsistent with the control room immediately above." Previous indexer and Nick Caputo believe pencils and inks to be by Carl Burgos. Saltarella previously credited John Severin on inks based on the broken fine linework in the background but Nick Caputo sees no evidence of his work.

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: Nightmare Planet

Characters: Col. Ken Travers

Synopsis: Earth is terrified by the approach of a giant planet, but a military expedition finds that time moves more slowly on this planet, so they will not notice Earth.

Pages: 5.000

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

Pencils: Joe Sinnott (signed)

Inks: Joe Sinnott (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

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

Notes: Narrated in the first person. Set in the year 2500.

Title: Bird Talk

Characters: Tony Tipple; Skeets Mulligan; Toodles Murphy

Synopsis: A meeting with a strange man gives a boy an unusual way of getting a pet bird, talking to birds.

Pages: 2.000

Pencils: ? (illustration)

Inks: ? (illustration)

Letters: typeset

Notes: Text story with illustration.

Title: Arise, Oh Geni...

Characters: Claude Hicks

Synopsis: A man with hay fever releases a hostile genie with plans of conquest from a lamp, but the genie contracts hay fever from his liberator. The genie tries to go to different areas, but after so long in the lamp, he has no resistances to germs and pollen. He decides he was better off in the lamp.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks: Steve Ditko (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #15 (November 1974)

Notes: Reprint credits from Jeff Cooper (July 7, 2003).

Title: Worlds Within Worlds!

Characters: Paul Stratton; Terry Mason; Dr. Stone

Synopsis: A scientist is convinced that there are microscopic worlds inside microbes. He cannot find one, but if he'd kept looking then he would have found Earth.

Pages: 4.000

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

Pencils: Carl Burgos ?

Inks: Carl Burgos

Letters: Artie Simek

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

Notes: Narrated in the second person.

Title: Beware the Future!

Characters: Luther Zorn; Emma Zorn

Synopsis: A physicist invents a time machine, but when it shows an idyllic future it causes people to lose their motivation to improve the world.

Pages: 4.000

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

Pencils: Al Williamson

Inks: Al Williamson

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Narrated in the first person.

Title: Prison 2000 A.D.

Characters: John Fox

Synopsis: In the year 2000 criminals are reconditioned through virtual reality.

Pages: 5.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Christopher Rule

Letters: Artie Simek

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

Notes: Reprint credit from Jeff Cooper (July 7, 2003).

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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	1	5	0	2	1	0	5	1	2	4	4	1	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	30
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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
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	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	0	2	1	1	5	1	2	5	5	1	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	34

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