Script:	Len Wein (credited) (script) Joe Orlando (credited) (story idea)
Pencils:	Jim Aparo (credited)
Inks:	Jim Aparo (credited)
Colors:	?
Letters:	Jim Aparo

• Genre:fantasy-supernatural; superhero
• Job Number:J-1296

• First Line of Dialogue or Text:Superstition vs. science -- the Long Ago fighting a losing battle against the Yet to Be...
• Keywords:artificial being; god; jungle setting; unintended consequences

The Phantom Stranger; John Kweli; Chuma (The Iron Messiah); Ororo (doctor); Ngumi (witch doctor); Amos Trent (oil company executive)

Synopsis:

Cyberneticist John Kweli returns from America to his African home to find his people harassed by the armed force of an oil company to get them to move off their ancestral land, under which are vast pools of oil. To rally his dispirited people, Kweli creates a metalic, cybernetic incarnation of the god Chuma... that exhibits human characteristics in a most unexpected way.

Reprints (3)

• in Historias Fantásticas (Editorial Novaro, 1958 series) #305 (26 de marzo de 1973)
• in Il Est Minuit... l'Heure des Sorcières (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #9 (3ème trimestre 1976) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
• in Showcase Presents: Phantom Stranger (DC, 2006 series) #1 ([December] 2006)

Connections?: In this story written by Len Wein, an African female doctor and longtime friend of John Kweli, who remained in her native country to serve her people (rather than seek her fortune in America), is named "Ororo". ...Four years later Wein and Dave Cockrum would create "Ororo Munroe" (aka Storm) for Giant Size X-Men (Marvel, 1975 Series) #1.

Script:	Ed Herron
Pencils:	Alex Toth (signed as Alexander Toth)
Inks:	Alex Toth (signed as Alexander Toth)
Colors:	?
Letters:	Stan Starkman (story title) Alex Toth (signed as Alexander Toth)
Editing:	Jack Schiff (original editor)

• Genre:adventure
• Job Number:J-1317

• First Line of Dialogue or Text:When I plunged into that remote, uncharted wilderness to find a missing scientist, I never dreamed that the search would turn a fight for survival...
• Keywords:abounding oddities; ape-like creature; exploring; jungle setting; Kraka Stone; mystery; scientist; transformation

Hale; Professor Amos Simpson; Roy Cathcart; native chief; ape-like creature

Synopsis:

An explorer discovers that a missing scientist has undergone a fantastic transformation.

Reprints (1)

• from My Greatest Adventure (DC, 1955 series) #61 (November 1961)

Script:	Joe Orlando
Pencils:	Leonard Starr (header illustration only)
Inks:	Leonard Starr (header illustration only)
Colors:	?
Letters:	typeset

• Job Number:J-1297

• Keywords:letters of comment

The Phantom Stranger (header illustration only)

Readers' comments on issues #10, 11, and 12. Between pages 2 and 3 of previous story.

Script:	Robert Kanigher (credited)
Pencils:	Tony DeZuniga (credited)
Inks:	Tony DeZuniga (credited)
Colors:	?
Letters:	John Costanza

• Genre:fantasy-supernatural; horror-suspense; detective-mystery
• Job Number:J-1187

• First Line of Dialogue or Text:Like the eye of a drowned swimmer in the midnight sea of sky, the moon stares glassily at the scarlet sextet capering out of the lavish beach house...
• Keywords:beach; beach house; drowning; dune buggy; mystery; pied-piper; rock band; sixties counterculture

Doctor Terrence Thirteen; Satan's Sextet (rock band); Willard Wentworth (middle-aged millionaire); young hippie-like party guests

Synopsis:

The frontman of a rock band playing a party at a millionaire's beach house leads a group of young people and their middle-aged millionaire host to a watery doom "Pied-Piper style". Saved from drowning when a strong riptide frees him from the piper's thrall, Willard Wentworth (the millionaire) turns to Doctor Thirteen to investigate these horrific events.

Reprints (2)

• in Historias Fantásticas (Editorial Novaro, 1958 series) #305 (26 de marzo de 1973)
• in Showcase Presents: Phantom Stranger (DC, 2006 series) #1 ([December] 2006)

Doctor Thirteen drives a dune buggy.

Script:	Jack Miller ?
Pencils:	Mort Meskin (signed as Meskin)
Inks:	Mort Meskin (signed as Meskin)
Colors:	?
Letters:	Ira Schnapp
Editing:	Jack Schiff (original editor)

• Genre:detective-mystery; fantasy-supernatural; adventure; science fiction
• Job Number:J-1318

• Feature Logo:A Mark Merlin Mystery
• First Line of Dialogue or Text:Weird mountain-dwelling monsters... flying inanimate objects... a hidden world containing fantastic one-celled creatures! Which of these is true... and which a figment of wild imagination?
• Keywords:abounding oddities; detective; first appearance of recurring character(s); mystery; supernatural

Mark Merlin; Elsa Magnusson; Mrs. Phipps; Mr. Wakely (uranium hunter); Wakely's miners; Mr. Cole (museum owner); Joss (museum manager); Danton (crooked real estate developer); Mr. Lemmon (owner of Ridgely Hills Caverns); tourists; single-celled amoeba creatures

Synopsis:

Mark Merlin introduces himself and discusses the type of cases he takes on.

Reprints (1)

• from House of Secrets (DC, 1956 series) #23 (August 1959)

writer credit by Bob Hughes.

This is a reprint of the first appearance of Mark Merlin.