Dates
- Cover date
- June 1963
- On sale
- March 12, 1963
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #109 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Original edition12¢ coverSource ↗
- UK pence edition9d [0-0-9 GBP] cover
British
Printed cover price 9d [0-0-9 GBP].
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Creators
Stories
- The Sorcerer and Pandora's Box · 13 pages
The Human Torch fights a sorcerer that unleashes the evils imprisoned in Pandora’s Box for his own profit.
- The Comic · 2 pages
A bored television comedian is mysteriously transported back to the small mining town and small theatres that he loves.
- Earth Is Off-Limits! · 5 pages
Space explorers discover life on a far off planet, but mission control panics at the thought of alien germs loose on Earth and so forbids them to return. The crew asks for chance to explain, but mission control breaks the communication as they cannot bear to listen to their pleas. What the space explorers were trying to say before their communication line was broken was that the life on the planet grants disease immunity and long life span.
- Time Was... · 5 pages
A scientist builds a time machine and travels to prehistoric times. When he kills an attacking caveman he unknowingly kills his own human ancestor, meaning that he becomes a neanderthal.
Characters
Reprinted in
Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Marvel Tales (1966), Marvel Superheroes and the Occult Winter Special (1980), Essential Human Torch (2003), Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (2006), Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (2014), The Human Torch & The Thing: Strange Tales - The Complete Collection (2018), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)