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Where Monsters Dwell#23
Cover: Jack Kirby & Dick Ayers

Where Monsters Dwell #23

Sep 1973 · Marvel · 0.20 USD
“The Monster Hunts for Me!”

In "The Monster Hunts for Me!", Stan Lee and Steve Ditko deliver a quietly unsettling twist on the familiar setup of a moviegoing crowd, turning a simple evening at the cinema into something far stranger. As the final credits roll, the perspective shifts to reveal the entire scene—complete with the audience and the film they’ve just watched—was actually unfolding on Mars, with Earth a distant, silent presence in the night sky. The cover, by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers, captures the eerie atmosphere with striking, otherworldly detail.

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writer Stan Lee · artist, inker Steve Ditko · letterer John Duffy · cover Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers

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Full credits

writer Stan Lee
artist, inker Steve Ditko
letterer John Duffy
cover pencils Jack Kirby
cover inks Dick Ayers

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This story shows an ordinary movie crowd reacting to a film of alien invasion. When the film ends, the people gather their coats and belongings to go home. The Earth is depicted in the night sky and the reader realizes the story took place on Mars.

Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).