Where Monsters Dwell #16

Marvel Comics

United States

Published
July 1972
Page count
36
Cover price
0.20 USD
Colour
Colour
Format
Comic series
GCD
www.comics.org/issue/25293

Credits

Editing
Stan Lee

Issue contents Hide all

Show/hide Cover Beware the Son of Goom! Cover, 1 page

Featuring

Genre
Monsters
Characters
Googam

Credits

Pencils
Gil Kane
Inks
Vince Colletta
Show/hide 1. Beware of Googam, Son of Goom!! Comic story, 13 pages

Featuring

Genre
Monsters
Code
V-155
Characters
Googam (introduction, origin); Mark Langley; Helen Langley; Billy Langley (introduction); Goom (flashback)

Credits

Script
Stan Lee ?
Larry Lieber ?
Pencils
Jack Kirby
Inks
Dick Ayers
Letters
Artie Simek

Reprint history

First print
United States
Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #17 (May 1961)
Beware of Googam, Son of Goom!!
Also printed
Australia
Super Giant (KG Murray, 1974 series) #10 ([July 1974?])
Beware of Googam, Son of Goom

Synopsis

Goom leaves an offspring in a cave to complete his conquest, and the son comes across the family of the scientist who was responsible for his father's defeat.

Notes

Narrated in the first person. Googam next appears in Marvel Monsters: Fin Fang 4 (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005). Billy Langley next appears as an adult in Marvel Monsters: From the Files of Ulysses Bloodstone and the Monster Hunters (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (November 2005).

Show/hide 2. He Who Laughs Last, Gets...The Horselaugh Comic story, 4 pages

Featuring

Genre
Horror
Code
A-524

Credits

Pencils
Jack Abel ?

Reprint history

First print
United States
Adventures into Terror (Marvel, 1951 series) #11 (August 1952)
He Who Laughs Last, Gets the Horselaugh
Also printed
Australia
Climax Adventure Comic (KG Murray, 1974 series) #17 ([July 1975?])
He Who Laughs Last, Gets… The Horselaugh

Synopsis

A man who plays the rear end in a dummy horse act is jealous of the man who plays the head, so he kills him and when he returns to the stage that night, is trampled by the front part of the costume.

Show/hide 3. I Am... Gorak! Comic story, 5 pages

Featuring

Genre
Occult
Code
V-45
Characters
Gorak

Credits

Script
Stan Lee ?
Larry Lieber ?
Art
Steve Ditko
Letters
Artie Simek

Synopsis

A famous magician is enraged when his power is questioned, and he reveals that the whole world is an illusion, and only he is real. He even confronts the reader, but fades away as the story ends.

Notes

Narrated in the first person.


Status

AusReprints ID

  • 40788

Index completed

  • 23/07/2011