World of Fantasy #18

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CGC records 34 graded copies for World of Fantasy #18 (1959). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.

The Creatures Who Captured Earth!

Aliens arrive on Earth bearing gifts to make people's lives soft and easy in order to make them ripe for conquest.

| ReprintOf2 = Mystical Tales Vol 1 2 | ReprintOfStory2 = 5

| StoryTitle3 = The Clock Strikes Never! | Writer3_1 = N/A | Penciler3_1 = Steve Ditko | Inker3_1 = Steve Ditko | Colorist3_1 = Stan Goldberg | Letterer3_1 = Artie Simek | Editor3_1 = Stan Lee

| Appearing3 = **Featured Characters:** * Frank Hanes) **Supporting Characters:** * World Electronics Inc.) ** Mr. Evans ** Unnamed Employee **Antagonists:** * Unidentified Police Department ** Numerous unnamed police officers **Other Characters:** * World Electronics Inc.) * Fate_(Earth-616)) * Universal Rocket Development Corp.) **Races and Species:** * Humans) * Asgardians **Realities:** * Earth-59619 * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth-59619 ** Earth * Earth-616 ** Earth *** United States of America **Items:** * Frank Hanes' Time Machine

| Synopsis3 = thumb|left Frank Hanes, an inventor working for World Electronics Inc. steals a time machine he invented for the company and tries to escapes to the future. The police of that future are there waiting for him when he arrives so he decides to flee into the past using the machine. While traveling into the past the machine begins to break down and Frank becomes young again. When he awakes he has no memory of what transpired but does have the opportunity to make a different choice for his life.

| StoryTitle4 = To Build A Robot! | Writer4_1 = Stan Lee | Writer4_2 = Larry Lieber | Penciler4_1 = Jack Kirby | Inker4_1 = Christopher Rule | Colorist4_1 = Stan Goldberg | Letterer4_1 = Artie Simek | Editor4_1 = Stan Lee

| Appearing4 = **Featured Characters:** * Luther Worthington) **Supporting Characters:** * Dexter Scott)

**Other Characters:** * Titanic Motors Inc.) ** Luther Worthington's Secretary ** Numerous unnamed employees **Races and Species:** * Humans) * Robots **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** United States of America

| Synopsis4 = thumb|right A young engineer attempts to acquire funding from a wealthy industrialist in order to build an android. The industrialist is revealed to be such a creature who dissuades the young man in order to discourage competition from other androids.

| StoryTitle5 = The Man Who Talks to the Stars! | Writer5_1 = Stan Lee | Writer5_2 = Larry Lieber | Penciler5_1 = John Forte | Inker5_1 = John Forte | Colorist5_1 = Stan Goldberg | Letterer5_1 = Artie Simek | Editor5_1 = Stan Lee

| Appearing5 = **Featured Characters:** * Hank Johnson) **Supporting Characters:** * "XR79B"

**Other Characters:** * Freddy * Daily World) ** Unnamed Editor **Races and Species:** * Humans) * Squirrels * Birds * Unidentified alien species * Ursa Volanians * Iota Orionisians * Beta Centaurians **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Milky Way ** Solar System *** Earth **** United States of America * Ursa Volans ** Regulas * Iota Orionis * Beta Centauri System ** New Draconia

| Synopsis5 = A reporter interviews a man in the park who claims to be able to speak with star-faring civilizations. The reporter thinks he's a crank, but the man becomes puzzled, checks his Handy Cosmic Tourist Guide, realizes he's made a mistake by stopping off at a primitive off-limits planet and so departs. I wonder if Douglas Adams read this story as a kid?

| StoryTitle6 = Xom! The Menace From Outer Space! | Writer6_1 = Stan Lee | Writer6_2 = Larry Lieber | Penciler6_1 = Joe Sinnott | Inker6_1 = Joe Sinnott | Colorist6_1 = Stan Goldberg | Letterer6_1 = N/A | Editor6_1 = Stan Lee

| Appearing6 = **Featured Characters:** * Philip Lindsay) **Supporting Characters:** * Xom) * Frank * Miles * Ben **Antagonists:** * Space Pirates ** Numerous unnamed pirates

**Races and Species:** * Polluxians * Humans) * Unidentified alien species * Elephants **Realities:** * Earth-81596 **Locations:** * Pollux 134 * Earth

| Synopsis6 = Earthmen land on a planet to be greeted by aliens who claim they are threatened by a creature named Xom enclosed behind a large wall. Eventually the aliens are revealed to be space pirates who wished Xom destroyed in order to sell the ivory in his teeth, and Xom in reality is quite harmless.

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| Notes = ===Publication Notes=== * "To Build A Robot!" is reprinted in Tomb of Darkness Vol 1 11.

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Creative credits

Writers: Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, N/A, Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, Stan Lee, Larry Lieber

Interior art: Don Heck, Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby, John Forte, Joe Sinnott

Color: Stan Goldberg, Stan Goldberg, Stan Goldberg, Stan Goldberg, Stan Goldberg

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GCD: 15074

PANEL PROFITS: 27948