Appearing in ""The Monster""
Featured Characters:
- "The Monster" / Andreas Flec (First appearance; dies)
Supporting Characters:
- villagers
- a tinker and his wife
- Marie (mannequin)
Other Characters:
- Sisters of Destiny (First appearance)
- Satan / The Devil / Lucifer (Invoked)
Races and Species:
Synopsis for ""The Monster""
An ugly man who lives alone is regarded with suspicion by the villagers and after a visit into town to pick up a music box, a mob gathers and follows him back to his home. They see a beautiful girl sitting still through a window and figure the monster must have her under some sinister spell. They break in and gun him down, only then noticing the girl is merely a mannequin. The man was merely a tragic hermit who had created his own world while the villagers in truth were the monsters. (In Jack's original end of this story, the witches were revealed to be Stan and Jack.)
Appearing in ""The Man Who Owned the World""
Featured Characters:
- Gregory Irkadin
Supporting Characters:
- Cynthia Irkadin
- Tom Sutton (Host)
Other Characters:
- Headstone P. Gravely (Mentioned)
- a scientist
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Modern age
- Future where the human race left Earth on June 25, 2035 (First appearance)
Synopsis for ""The Man Who Owned the World""
The world's richest man buys a cryochamber which sends him into the future, but when he emerges, he finds pollution has destroyed Earth's biosphere and mankind has left to the stars.
Appearing in "The Sword and the Sorcerers!"
Featured Characters:
- Starr the Slayer (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Len Carson (First appearance) (Death)
- Whitney (Carson's publisher, on the telephone) (First appearance)
- O'Neal (police officer) (First appearance)
- Morro (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Man-Dragon
- Trull the Wizard (First appearance) (Death)
Other Characters:
- Gods of the Great Abyss (Invoked)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Zardath (First appearance)
- Great Abyss (Invoked)
Synopsis for "The Sword and the Sorcerers!"
A writer who is selling barbarian stories of Starr the Slayer that come to him in dreams plans to kill off Starr in the next story because the dreams are putting too much of a strain upon his health. On his way to the office, Starr assaults him out of an alley with accusations of assassin upon his lips. The writer is unbelieving, even to the point that Starr raises his sword and strikes him down. Starr wakes in his own world and relates a dream to his faithful minstrel wherein he struck down a grave threat to his life.
Solicit Synopsis
(April)
- (May) King Kirby at his greatest—Tom Sutton at his most mysterious—and Barry Smith with a sword-and-sorcery spinetingler! it's mad! It's moody! It's marvelous!
Trivia
- The tagline for this issue is, "And the Monster Man Came Walking -- Walking --".