Request for Scans

Some of Kirby's 188 monster stories have never been reprinted, and some were reprinted with the character's name altered in deference to super-heroes and super-villians with same or similar names.

I intend for Monster Blog to be a complete and accurate archive of these comics. To make that happen, I need help acquiring scans of stories that have never been reprinted, as well as splash pages showing a character's original name.

If you have these comics, access to a scanner, and the desire to help, please contact me. I would appreciate your assistance with this project — and I'll give you credit on this page!

Here's the complete stories I need:

  • Amazing Adventures 2: “I Led the Strange Search for Manoo” Thanks to Dennis Giansante
  • Amazing Adventures 3: “We Were Trapped in the Twilight World” Thanks to John Kaminski
  • Amazing Adventures 4: “I Am Robot X” and “What Lurks Within” Thanks to John K
  • Journey Into Mystery 51: “The Creatures in the Volcano” and “Alien on Earth” Thanks to FAMAC
  • Journey Into Mystery 52: “Menace from Mars” Thanks to FAMAC
  • Journey Into Mystery 54: “I Am the Menace from the Purple Planet” Thanks to FAMAC
  • Journey Into Mystery 55: “My Neighbor’s Secret” Thanks to FAMAC
  • Journey Into Mystery 58: “Return of the Martian” and “They Called Me a Witch!” Thanks to John K
  • Journey Into Mystery 74: “Midnight in the Wax Museum” Thanks to FAMAC
  • Journey Into Mystery 76: “The Genie with the Light Brown Hair” Thanks to John K
  • Journey Into Mystery 78: “The Sorcerer” Thanks to John K
  • Journey Into Mystery 80: “Propaganda” Thanks to FAMAC
  • Journey Into Mystery 81: “There Dwells a Dragon” Thanks to John K
  • Strange Tales 68: “Test Pilot” Thanks to FAMAC
  • Strange Tales 70: “A Giant Walks the Earth!” Thanks to FAMAC
  • Strange Tales 81: “The Scarecrow Walks!” Thanks to FAMAC
  • Strange Tales 85: “The Return of Gargantus!” Thanks to FAMAC
  • Strange Tales 86: “I Created Mechano!” and “Beware of Meeks Bringing Gifts!” Thanks to John K
  • Strange Tales 92: “The Man Who Shrunk the World!” Thanks to FAMAC
  • Strange Worlds 3: “I Was Face-to-Face with the Creature From Planet X” Thanks to Dennis G
  • Tales of Suspense 2: “Invasion from Outer Space” Thanks to Dennis G
  • Tales of Suspense 3: “The Terrible Time Machine” Thanks to Dennis G
  • Tales of Suspense 4: “One of Our Spacemen is Missing” Thanks to John K
  • Tales of Suspense 6: “The Luna Lizards Had Me Trapped” Thanks to Dennis G
  • Tales of Suspense 8: “Monstro… The Menace from the Murky Depths!” Thanks to Dennis G and Bill Cox
  • Tales of Suspense 21: “The Man From Tomorrow” Thanks to Dennis G
  • Tales of Suspense 25: “The Death of Monstrollo” Thanks to Dennis G
  • Tales of Suspense 25: “The Unseen” Thanks to Dennis G
  • Tales of Suspense 33: “The Mystery of the Tax Collector From Space” Thanks to Dennis G
  • Tales of Suspense 34: “The Forbidden World” Thanks to Dennis G
  • Tales of Suspense 35: “I Accepted the Deadly Challenge of Zarkorr” Thanks to John K
  • Tales to Astonish 6: “I Laughed at the Great God, Pan” Thanks to John K
  • Tales to Astonish 24: “The Abominable Snowman” Thanks to Bill C
  • Tales to Astonish 29: “The Man Who Blew Up The Earth!” Thanks to FAMAC
  • Tales to Astonish 32: “Quicksand” and “The Bully Boy” Thanks to John K

Also, John Kaminski requests these stories:

  • Yellow Claw 3: “The Microscopic Army” and “Ufo, the Lightning Man” Thanks to Bill Cox
  • Yellow Claw 4: “The Living Shadows”, “The Screemies”, “The Yellow Claw and The Thought Master” and “Five Million Sleepwalkers” Thanks to Bill Cox
  • Two Gun Kid 58 (reprinted in Mighty Marvel Western 16): “The Monster from Hidden Valley”

And here's the splash pages needed:

  • Amazing Adventures 1: “I Am The Fantastic Dr. Droom” Thanks to Dennis Giansante
  • Amazing Adventures 2: “The World Below” Thanks to John Kaminski
  • Amazing Adventures 3: “Dr. Droom Meets Zemu” Thanks to John K
  • Fantastic Four 11: “The Impossible Man” Thanks to Dennis G
  • Incredible Hulk 1: “The Hulk” Thanks to Dennis G
  • Journey Into Mystery 62: “I Was a Slave of the Living Hulk!” Thanks to FAMAC
  • Journey Into Mystery 66: “The Return of the Hulk” Thanks to John K
  • Journey into Mystery 73: “Goliath!” Thanks to FAMAC
  • Strange Tales 84: “Magneto!” Thanks to John K
  • Strange Tales 92: “The Monster Hunts For Me!” Thanks to Dennis G
  • Strange Tales 93: “When the Thing Runs Amok!” Thanks to Dennis G
  • Strange Tales 97: “When a Planet Dies” Thanks to John K
  • Tales to Astonish 16: “Thorr the Unbelievable” Thanks to Dennis G

And here's stories that have been reprinted but I don't own and can't yet review for Monster Blog:

  • Amazing Adventures 3: “Dr. Droom Meets Zemu” Thanks to John K
  • Journey Into Mystery 59: “I Unleashed Shagg Upon the World” Thanks to FAMAC
  • Journey Into Mystery 74: “The Thing in the Black Box” Thanks to John K
  • Strange Tales 69: “The World That Was Lost!” Thanks to John K
  • Strange Tales 79: “I Was in the Clutches of the Living Shadow” Thanks to John K
  • Strange Tales 87: “The Return of Grogg!” Thanks to John K
  • Strange Tales 95: “The Two-Headed Thing!” Thanks to John K
  • Strange Tales 98: “No Human Can Beat Me!” Thanks to John K
  • Strange Tales 99: “The Day Before Doomsday” Thanks to Brian Snyder
  • Strange Tales 100: “The Man in the Crazy Maze” Thanks to John K
  • Strange Tales 100: “The Imitation Man” Thanks to John K
  • Strange Worlds 1: “I Discovered the Secret of the Flying Saucers” Thanks to John K
  • Strange Worlds 3: “I Fly to the Stars” Thanks to Dennis G
  • Tales of Suspense 20: “Colossus Lives Again!” Thanks to John K
  • Tales of Suspense 26: “It Crawls by Night” Thanks to John K
  • Tales of Suspense 27: “On the Trail of the Witch!” Thanks to John K
  • Tales of Suspense 31: “The Monster in the Iron Mask” Thanks to John K
  • Tales of Suspense 31: “The Man Who Found Shangri-La” Thanks to John K
  • Tales of Suspense 32: “Sazzik the Sorcerer” Thanks to John K
  • Tales to Astonish 9: “Return of the Genie” Thanks to John K
  • Tales to Astonish 13: “I Am the Abominable Snowman” Thanks to Michel Gagné
  • Tales to Astonish 22: “The Crawling Creature” Thanks to John K
  • World of Fantasy 16: “Prison 2000 A.D.” Thanks to Mark Neunder
  • World of Fantasy 18: “To Build a Robot” Thanks to Brian S

............. Philip Parodayco :: 03 July 2006

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Hi Phil,

I have all the comicbooks you need scans on except 'Yellow Claw'. Anything I can do to help let me know. I have just about every Marvel comicbook from the late 1950's up to the late 1960's that I saved as boy.

Nuff Said…Dennis

............. Dennis M. Giansante :: 22 November 2003

Wow Dennis, you sure picked a great time to be a boy! Kidding aside, I'm thrilled that you were able to hold on to all of those great comics for so many years. I hope they're still as enjoyable for you as the day you bought them.

I'll contact you shortly with the details on sending scans.

............. Philip :: 23 November 2003

Great project! As soon as you are ready to branch out to the DC monster stories, I can provide scans on a cd-rom. Also, if you want to use my article on Floating Head Panels, which is mostly based on stuff Jack Kirby did in the monster comics, I'd be honored. I can provide you with the text and the illustrations. Maybe I can even update it with a fuller list of Floating Head Panels in Jack's monster comics work.

Ger Apeldoorn
The Netherlands

............. Ger Apeldoorn :: 15 January 2004

Also, I have the Kirby Wood story in black and white from a british reprint.

............. Ger Apeldoorn :: 15 January 2004

Hi Phil. Any chance of getting these incredible never before reprinted Kirby monster stories on a CD-rom? It's great you have them availbale for us to enjoy on the net but I'm sure most of us wouldn't mind having the higher resolution scans on disk.

Either way, thanks a million times over for the tremendous effort of this Monster Blog.

As always,
Les

............. Les Toil :: 08 February 2004

Hey Les, you're welcome a million times plus one! As for the scans, they arrived at my desk the size you see them. There is no higher resolution to be had. As it is, they're rather legible and completely enjoyable. So enjoy!

............. Philip :: 08 February 2004

I'm always looking to acquire scans of the comic books I own so as not to damage these treasures. Do you have a list of your complete scans which could be e-mailed to me? I am more than willing to remunerate anyone in their efforts to copy their files for me.

JOSEPH k

............. Joseph Kartheiser :: 08 April 2004

Hi Phil, If you still need scans of TO BUILD A ROBOT (WORLD OF FANTASY #18), THE DAY BEFORE DOOMSDAY (STRANGE TALES#99), and PRISON 2000 A.D. (STRANGE TALES ANNUAL #2), I have
these issues and would be happy to send them to you. The only problem might be the annual, which
may not lay flat enough for a decent scan. I'll try, but I don't want to risk damaging it. Let me know if
you're interested. Best, Brian Snyder

............. Brian Snyder :: 04 January 2005

Phil, John, and Brian: I have WORLD OF FANTASY #16, the original appearance of PRISON 2000 AD, which lays flat; I could send a scan of this to make sure Brian's annual is unaffected. I also have ASTONISHING #56, with “AFRAID TO DREAM,” another Atlas sci-fi/fantasy Kirby tale from '56. Please let us know if you are interested. I'm sure all visitors to Monsterblog would like to see more scans.

............. Neunder :: 05 January 2005

Phil: I emailed the scans of “Prison 2000 AD”, and also of “Afraid to Dream” from Astonishing 56 (Dec. 1956)—-it's from the same month some Kirby work for Yellow Claw appeared. I didn't send a scan of the Astonishing cover, for my copy's cover is damaged. Anyway, sorry all this took a week or two, but I don't own a scanner.

............. Neunder :: 25 January 2005

i am also looking for scans of comics to complete my amazing adult fantasy collection,so if there is anybody out there that can help me to,i am most willing to turn around and help you also. the reason i want the amazind adult fantasy issues is for one to have them for my collection and 2,some of the stories that are in those issues were reprinted and put into the uncanny x-men series,but when i got to the part of getting them complete,i was missing the stories that came from the amazing adult fantasy issues,so please can someone help me on this also. ohhh and i forgot,amd also looking for scans of the comic book series called venus,i need a story out of that also,from issue #16,and i also need the stories called journeys end,the warning and the mechanical men,but i dont know what the original comics that they came from,that would also be a big help,so please if anybody can help me,i will turn and help you.

............. rameriez :: 08 July 2005

Hi Phil,

If Mr. Rameriez wants to contact me about scans of Amazing Adult Fantasy, I'll be more than willing to help him out.

Nuff Said…Dennis

dgiansante@verizon.net

............. Dennis Giansante :: 24 June 2006

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