Featuring: Watcher
Release: November 12, 1963
Cover: February 1964
12 cents
Story plot: Stan Lee
Script + art: Larry Lieber
Inking: S. Brodsky
Lettering: Art Simek
5 pages
The Watcher tells a tale of the distant future, the 21st century.
Wilbur Weems is a shy space pilot, teased by everybody for his general wimpiness. Having no friends or family or much of anything, he volunteers for an apparent suicide mission to investigate a cosmic dust cloud.
It turned out the radiation from the cloud wasn’t a danger. Rather, it turned him superhuman. Radiation will do that. He gets invited to live in a utopian society behind the cloud.
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. (Matthew 5:5)
Rating: ★★★☆☆, 50/100
Significance: ★★☆☆☆
Except for the first page, the scans are taken from a reprint in Marvel Collector’s Item Classics #5.
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Characters:
- Watcher
- Wilbur Weems
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