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Worlds Unknown #1

Marvel · Series began 1973 · May 1973

Dates

Cover date
May 1973
On sale
February 6, 1973
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: John Romita, Ralph Reese, Angelo Torres, Gil Kane, Rich Bucklerinks: John Romita, Ralph Reese, Angelo Torres, Mike Esposito, Frank Giacoiascript: Frederik Pohl, Gerry Conway, Gil Kane, Edmond Hamilton, Roy Thomasletters: John Costanza

Stories

  • The Day after the Day the Martians Came! · 6 pages

    Television is abuzz with news of Martians brought back to Earth from a manned space expedition and all a group of newsmen can do is sit around and tell the same old jokes that people have been using against other religious or ethnic groups for years.

  • Nightmare at Noon! · 3 pages

    When a woman threatens to leave a man unless he sells his island for cash, he has a vision of a woman being threatened by pirates. He defeats the pirates, and as a reward she gives him a ring and a promise to return someday as the vision fades. When he comes to he finds he still has the ring and the client the real estate broker brings in to show the island is the spitting image of the woman from his vision.

  • He That Hath Wings! · 12 pages

    David, born with nascent wings, grew older, and finally with the ability to fly, must choose between an earthbound life with a wife and child and one of soaring wild and free in the skies.

Reprinted in

Planet of the Apes (1974)

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