Where Monsters Dwell #9
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "I Learned the Monstrous Secret of Bombu!", Stan Lee and Steve Ditko deliver a mind-bending tale of time, isolation, and discovery as a scientist's assistant ventures through a mysterious time machine only to find himself stranded in a world so ancient it feels like the dawn of time—or the end of it. The story's haunting mystery, rendered in Ditko’s signature surreal style with inks by Ditko and lettering by Artie Simek, leaves the question unanswered: is this the beginning… or the final echo? The cover by Jack Kirby and Marie Severin captures the eerie, otherworldly tone with striking, dynamic art.
Joe Carter’s quiet evening takes a strange turn when his TV starts showing what looks like a cosmic battle between alien creatures—until he realizes the real conflict is happening just outside his window, in the form of a war between two ant colonies.
In "The Magic of Mordoo!", Franz Kopnik finds himself drawn to the elegance of Katrina Steuben during a summer getaway, yet his heart yearns for youth. When he consents to a gypsy magician’s spell to restore her beauty, the transformation brings more than he bargained for—her new form attracts the very man who cast the enchantment, Mordoo.
Bruno, the assistant to a reclusive professor, takes a fateful leap into the time machine, hoping to settle a single question: does it send things into the past or the future? What he finds instead is a world so ancient and untouched that humanity has yet to rise—leaving him stranded, utterly alone, and still without the answer he sought.
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↩ Reprints Journey into Mystery #60 (1960), Journey into Mystery #75 (1961)
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