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Cover: Jack Kirby & Steve Ditko

Fear #3

Mar 1971 · Marvel · 0.25 USD
“Zzutak the Thing That Shouldn't Exist!!”

An American comic book artist is given magic paints which make whatever is painted with them real. He is compelled to go to Mexico and paint a monster as planned by the Aztec priest who gave him the paints. When he is ordered to paint more monsters, the artist uses his willpower to make his next monster fight the first, causing the temple to collapse on both monsters, giving the priest amnesia and ending his threat.

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writer Stan Lee · writer Larry Lieber · artist Jack Kirby · inker Steve Ditko · letterer Artie Simek · letterer Ray Holloway · cover Jack KirbySteve Ditko

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Full credits

writer Stan Lee
artist Jack Kirby
letterer Artie Simek
letterer Ray Holloway
cover pencils Jack Kirby
cover inks Steve Ditko

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An American comic book artist is given magic paints which make whatever is painted with them real. He is compelled to go to Mexico and paint a monster as planned by the Aztec priest who gave him the paints. When he is ordered to paint more monsters, the artist uses his willpower to make his next monster fight the first, causing the temple to collapse on both monsters, giving the priest amnesia and ending his threat.

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