Dates
- Cover date
- October 1963
- On sale
- July 9, 1963
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #113 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 Coming of the Plantman! · 13 pages
The Human Torch saves his new girlfriend Doris’s father from a disgruntled gardener who gains the ability to control plants.
- New Glasses · 2 pages
A man insists on getting a specially made pair of glasses in a hurry, and finds that the optician has a magical corridor that leads back in time.
- The Search for Shanng! · 5 pages
An alien crash lands on Earth, and offers knowledge to in exchange for help. Greedy humans cannot find his ship, since he sensed their selfish thoughts and hid himself until humanity is ready.
- The Shoemaker's Strange Assistants! · 5 pages
A shoemaker who enjoys telling the neighborhood children stories of the little people who come out at night to help him make shoes becomes ill and goes to a loan shark to acquire money for medical treatment. The loan shark harasses him constantly to make interest payments on his loan so he must work night and day. The last time the greedy money lender visits the shoemaker he gets the shock of his life as it turns out the little people are real. They shrink the man and put him to work building shoes for the shoemaker.
Reprinted in
Sinister Tales (1964), Creepy Worlds (1962), Marvel Tales (1966), Star Wars Weekly (1978), 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), Marvel July 1963 Omnibus (2023)