Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko TPB Mid Grade (2019)

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• 1 Dream World Script: Stan Lee +
  A man repeatedly dreams that his bed is levitating, and can’t tell if he’s dreaming or not.
• 2 Why Won't They Believe Me? Script: Stan Lee +
  A man believes that he has discovered an alien invasion, but he is the real alien, and has amnesia.
• 3 Journey's End Script: Stan Lee +
  A thief tries to use a time machine to escape, but creates a paradox when he kills the machine's inventor in the past
• 4 Help! Script: Stan Lee +
  A man gets a mysterious call for help but thinks it's a crank call and slams down the phone, breaking it. The caller is overjoyed, since it was a tiny alien spaceship trapped inside the phone receiver.
• 5 Those Who Change Script: Stan Lee +
  Scientists view the ancient past, but though they don’t realize it they reshape history causing humans to evolve from reptiles.
• 6 No Sign of Life Script: Stan Lee +
  Puzzled space explorers are unable to detect any signs of life in an entire galaxy. They set for home frustrated that no colonies can be established there, not realizing that all the planets of that particular galaxy are living beings.
• 7 Something Fantastig? [sic] [Something Fantastic?] Script: Stan Lee +
  Lee and Ditko are having a story conference stricken with writer's block when a man walks into their office and offers to discuss ideas with them. They tell him to scram and when he doesn't take the hint, Ditko boots him out the door. The man gets up in the hallway outside and dissolves into sparkles, resolving to return to the fifth dimension as no one seems to be interested in his tales. Meanwhile, as Lee and Ditko mourn the fact that nothing supernatural ever happens to them, they decide to knock off for lunch.
• 8 Goodbye to Linda Brown Script: Stan Lee +
  A girl in a wheelchair living with her aunt and uncle begins sleepwalking. In her sleep, she wheels herself underwater. The couple are sad...but they knew their mermaid ward would one day go home.
• 9 The Unsuspecting Script: Stan Lee +
  Shape-shifting aliens invade Earth, taking the form of TV sets in order to influence people's thinking.
• 10 I Am Not Human! Script: Stan Lee +
  A humanoid robot escapes his creator's lab with an artificial face and clothes in order to live among humans as a man. He is so disillusioned with human beings inhumanity to their fellows that he removes the mask and allows his creator to bring him back to the lab. His maker says to him "You must have known you could never have passed for human for long." to which the robot replies to the startled engineer "Has the thought never occurred to you that no robot would want to?"
• 11 Spider-Man vs. The Chameleon! Script: Stan Lee +
  Spider-Man tries to join the Fantastic Four and stops the Chameleon.
• 12 The Incredible Hulk vs The Metal Master! Script: Stan Lee +
  Finding his transformations more and more difficult using his gamma ray machine, the Hulk with Banner's brain also finds that he has Banner's features when he zaps himself to face the alien invading Metal Master and his head does not transform. The power of the Metal Master is too much for the Hulk and he is captured by Ross. Rick forms the Teen Brigade. Hulk breaks free of Ross's bunker and then pulls off one of the boldest victories against one of the most powerful aliens ever seen.
• 13 Dr. Strange Master of Black Magic! Script: Steve Ditko +
  Doctor Strange is called on by a man having bad dreams, and confronts Nightmare. The man’s dreams reveal that he is guilty of fraud and Strange makes him confess.
• 14 The Origin of Dr. Strange Script: Stan Lee +
  Dr. Stephen Strange, a top neurosurgeon, damages his hands in an accident and seeks out a mystic for help. He saves the seer from his treacherous student, becoming his pupil and finding a new purpose.
• 15 The Mysterious Mr. Doll! Script: Stan Lee +
  Mister Doll uses magic dolls to take over whole companies. Iron Man stops him with the help of a new suit of armor. In the process Tony enrages Pepper by toying with her affections to create a diversion.
• 16 The Sinister Six! Script: Stan Lee +
  Dr. Octopus organizes the Sinister Six, composed of other Spider-Man Villains. They capture Betty Brant and Aunt May and force Spider-Man to rescue them.
• 17 How Stan Lee and Steve Ditko Create Spider-Man! Script: Stan Lee +
  Stan keeps bothering Steve Ditko while he tries to draw a Spider-man strip.
• 18 The Domain of the Dread Dormammu! Script: Steve Ditko +
  Dr. Strange is whisked to the Ancient One's side as he explains that The Dread Dormammu threatens to leave his dimension and travel to Earth. With his mentor too old to face him Strange must invade Dormammu's dimension, where he faces one danger after another. A mysterious girl observes Strange's progress, finally revealing herself to warn the mystic of Dormammu's awesome powers. Strange confronts Dormammu and warns him not to invade Earth. Dormammu demands the Ancient One face him but Strange tells him he will not attack his mentor while he lives. Dormammu accepts his challenge.
• 19 Duel with the Dread Dormammu! Script: Steve Ditko +
  The mysterious girl appears and takes Strange to The Mindless Ones, destructive creatures who are held back from killing by Dormammu's willpower. Dormammu imprisons the girl for betraying him and the battle begins. With Dormammu concentrating on defeating his foe the barrier holding The Mindless Ones collapses; he is forced to join forces with Strange to stop them. Now indebted to Strange Dormammu accepts his terms: no harm shall come to the girl and he must never set foot on Earth. Upon Dr. Strange's return to earth The Ancient One rewards him with a new cloak of levitation and amulet.
• 20 If This Be My Destiny...! Script: Steve Ditko +
  Aunt May falls deathly ill on Peter's first day of college. Meanwhile, the Master Planner is stealing scientific gadgets.
• 21 Man on a Rampage! Script: Steve Ditko +
  Aunt May is dying due to some radioactivity in her blood, and Dr. Octopus has stolen the radioactive isotope that Peter and Dr. Conners need to create a serum to save her life.
• 22 The Final Chapter! Script: Steve Ditko +
  Trapped under a pile of rubble in an underwater base that is filling with water, Spider-Man has to use all of his strength and determination to break himself free as Aunt May's life hangs in the balance. Spider-Man escapes and takes down Doc Ock's goons so he can deliver a serum that will remove the radiation from his aunt’s system.
• 23 The End -- At Last! Script: Steve Ditko +
  Using his mystic powers to temporarily bind the sleeping Eternity, Dormammu lures Strange to another dimension and challenges him, but as they begin their mystical combat Eternity breaks free. He tells Dormammu to end the violence, but instead he attacks Eternity. Their encounter is brief and destructive as Dormammu is smashed between two colliding spheres. Eternity vanishes while Strange is hurled between dimensions and rescued by the Ancient One. Strange releases all those who were banished by him, including Baron Mordo and Clea, whom he affectionately bids farewell to for the time being.
• 24 Requiem For a Pug! Script: Michael Fleisher +
  Daredevil deactivates a runaway Meson-projector reactor, but loses his memory afterwards. He ends up re-living his father's career as a boxer, under the control of a gambler called Mr. Hyle.
• 25 Jack Frost Nipping at Your Soul! Script: Bill Mantlo +
• 26 Speedball, the Masked Marvel Script: Steve Ditko +
  Robbie's D.A. dad wants him to have a career in the law and his mother wants him to pursue a life in the arts. Instead, Robbie is secretly trying to cope with groovy new superpowers that make him talk funny and bounce around like a rubber ball. When Robbie saves his parents from a career criminal bent on revenge, Speedball is introduced to the world.
• 27 The Origin of a Masked Marvel Script: Steve Ditko +
• 28 The Coming of... Squirrel Girl! Script: Steve Ditko +
  Squirrel Girl tries to hook up with Iron Man as his sidekick and the two end up facing Dr. Doom.

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