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Tower Comics Checklist

The complete index to Wood & Co.'s adventure comics line

From Comic Book Artist #14

The Tower Comics line was published by Harry Shorten and edited by Wally Wood and Samm Schwartz. Writers for specific stories are not generally known (though we've credited those identified by the writers), but contributing scripters include Wally Wood, Dan Adkins, Len Brown, Steve Skeates, Larry lvie, Bill Pearson, Russ Jones, Roger Brand, and Tim Battersby-Brent.

The following index was adopted freely from one originally compiled for APA-1 by Gene Reed and The Comics Reader #197 by Mike Tiefenbacher. Corrections noted in TCR #198 and 199's letter columns - from Mark Evanier and Steve Skeates, respectively - were also added. Thanks to Mark, Steve, Larry Ivie, Bill Pearson, and Len Brown for giving the list one final going-over. The art credits were verified and corrected by Dan Adkins. Special thanks to Jeff Clem and Al Gordon. We haven't included reference to Tower's teenage titles, Tippy Teen, etc., of which much was drawn by editor Schwartz. If you have any corrections, please send 'em in! -Ye Ed.

T.H.U.N.D.E.R. AGENTS
1 November 1965 Cover: Wally Wood
THUNDER Agents: "First Encounter" 4 Art: Wally Wood Story: Larry Ivie
Dynamo: "Menace of the Iron Fog" 12
Art: Wally Wood Story: Len Brown/Larry Ivie
NoMan: "THUNDER Agent NoMan" 10
Art: Reed Crandall (w/Wood) Story: Larry Ivie
Menthor: "The Enemy Within" 12
Art: Gil Kane & George Tuska/Mike Esposito (pages 2-7 penciled by George Tuska)
THUNDER Squad: "THUNDER Squad" 10
Art: M. Sekowsky/F. Giacoia Story: Larry Ivie
Dynamo: "At The Mercy of the Iron Maiden" 10
Art: Wally Wood & Dan Adkins/Wood & Adkins Text: Larry Ivie 2
2 January 1966 Cover: Wally Wood & Dan Adkins
Dynamo: "Dynamo Battles Dynavac" 13
Art: Wally Wood & Richard Bassford/Wally Wood Story: Len Brown
NoMan: "In The Warlord's Power" 10
Art: Dick Ayers/Wally Wood & Joe Orlando
Menthor: "Menthor" 10
Art: Mike Sekowsky/Frank Giacoia
Dynamo: "D-Day For Dynamo" 13
Art: Wally Wood & Dan Adkins/Wood & Coleman
THUNDER Squad: "On The Double" 10
Art: Mike Sekowsky/Frank Giacoia Text: "Junior THUNDER Agents" 2 Illustration by Mike Sekowsky
3 March 1966 Cover: Wally Wood
Dynamo: "Dynamo Battles the Subterraneans" 10
Art: Wally Wood & Dan Adkins/Wood & Coleman
NoMan: "NoMan Faces the Threat of the Amazing Vibraman" 10
Art: John Giunta/Wally Wood & Tony Coleman Story: Bill Pearson
Dynamo: "The Red Dragon" 10
Art: Wally Wood & Dan Adkins/Wood & Coleman
THUNDER Squad: "Invaders From the Deep" 10
Art: Mike Sekowsky/Frank Giacoia
Dynamo & Menthor: "Dynamo vs. Menthor" 10
Art: Wally Wood & Dan Adkins/Wood & Coleman
Pin-up: Dynamo 1
Art: Wally Wood & Dan Adkins/Wally Wood
Pin-up: NoMan 1
Art: Wally Wood & Dan Adkins/Wally Wood
Pin-up: The Thunderbelt 1
Art: Wally Wood & Dan Adkins/Wally Wood
Pin-up: Menthor 1
Art: Wally Wood & Dan Adkins/Wally Wood
Pin-up: THUNDER Squad 1
Art: Wally Wood & Dan Adkins/Wally Wood
Letters 2
4 April 1966 Cover: Reed Crandall/Wally Wood
Dynamo: "Master of Evolution" 12
Art: Wood & Adkins/Wood, Adkins & Coleman Story: Len Brown
NoMan: "The Synthetic Stand-ins" 10
Art: Sekowsky/Giacoia Story: Steve Skeates
THUNDER Agents: "The Deadly Dust" (Lightning debut) 10
Art: Sekowsky/Giacoia Story: Steve Skeates
Dynamo: "The Return of the Iron Maiden" 10
Art: Reed Crandall/Wally Wood & Dan Adkins
Menthor: "The Great Hypno" 11
Art: John Giunta/Wally Wood & Tony Coleman
Pin-up: NoMan in Action 1
Art: Wally Wood & Dan Adkins/Wood & Coleman
Pin-up: The Origin of T.H.U.N.D.E.R. 1
Art: Wally Wood & Dan Adkins/Wood & Coleman
Letters 2
5 June 1966 Cover: Wally Wood/Wood & Adkins
Dynamo: "Dynamo and the Golem" 10
Art: Reed Crandall/Wally Wood & Dan Adkins
NoMan: "In the Caverns of Demo" 10
Art: Gil Kane/Wally Wood & Tony Coleman Story: Bill Pearson
Lightning: "Return of Baron Van Kampf" 10
Art: Sekowsky/Giacoia Story: Steve Skeates
Menthor: "Menthor vs. The Entrancer" 10
Art: John Giunta
THUNDER Agents: "Double For Dynamo" 14
Art: Wood & Adkins/Wood & Coleman Story: Skeates
Pin-up: Lightning 1
Art: Dan Adkins
Letters 2
6 July 1966 Cover: Wally Wood & Dan Adkins/Wood
Dynamo: "Dynamo & the Sinister Agents of the Red Star" 14
Art: Wally Wood & Dan Adkins/Wood & Adkins
Lightning: "The Origin of the Warp Wizard" 11
Art: Sekowsky/Giacoia Story: Steve Skeates
THUNDER Agents: "THUNDER vs. Demo" 10
Art: Giunta/Wood & Adkins
Menthor: "The Carnival of Death" 10
Art: John Giunta/Carl Hubbell
NoMan: "To Fight Alone" 10
Art: Steve Ditko Story: Steve Skeates
7 August 1966 Cover: Wood & Adkins/Wood & Adkins
Dynamo: "Wanted: Leonard Brown, Code Name 'Dynamo', Suspicion of Treason" 10
Art: Wood, Adkins & Ralph Reese/Wood & Adkins
Lightning: "The Warp Wizard's Revenge" 10
Art: Sekowsky/Giacoia Story: Steve Skeates
THUNDER Agents: "Subterranean Showdown" 10
Art: George Tuska
NoMan: "To Be Or Not to Be" 10
Art: John Giunta/Sal Trapani Story: Bill Pearson
Menthor: "A Matter of Life and Death" 10
Layouts: Wally Wood & Dan Adkins Story: Wood & Adkins Tight pencils: Steve Ditko Inks: Wally Wood & Dan Adkins
Pin-up: The Iron Maiden 1
Art: Wally Wood & Dan Adkins/Wally Wood
Letters 2
8 September 1966 Cover: Wally Wood
Dynamo: "Thunder In the Dark" 10
Art: Wood, Adkins & Reese/Wood & Adkins
NoMan: "The Pyramid of the Warlords" 10
Art: John Giunta/Joe Giella Story: Bill Pearson
Lightning: "The Blue Alien" 10
Art: Sekowsky/Giacoia Story: Steve Skeates
Raven: "Enter... The Raven" 10
Art: George Tuska Story: Steve Skeates
THUNDER Agents: "Final Encounter" 11
Art: Dan Adkins/Wally Wood & Dan Adkins
Pin-up: The Overlord 1
Art: Wally Wood & Ralph Reese/Wally Wood
Letters 2
9 October 1966 Cover: John Giunta/Wally Wood
Dynamo: "Corporal Dynamo, U.S.A." 10
Art: John Giunta/Wally Wood
Lightning: "Andor" 10
Art: Mike Sekowsky/ Frank Giacoia (odd pages), Joe Giella (even pages)
NoMan: "The Secret of Scorpion Island" 10
Art: John Giunta
THUNDER Agents: "The Black Box of Doom" 10
Art: Dan Adkins/Chic Stone
Raven: "Raven Battles Mayven The Poet" 11
Art: Manny Stallman Story: Manny Stallman
Letters 2
10 November 1966 Cover: Al Williamson & Wally Wood/Wood
Dynamo: "Operation Armageddon" 10
Art: Wally Wood
Lightning: "The Air Laser" 10
Art: Mike Sekowsky/Joe Giella (odd pages), Frank Giacoia (even pages)
NoMan/Andor: "Three Deeds of Evil" 10
Art: Ogden Whitney
THUNDER Agents: "Kitten or Killer?" 10
Art: George Tuska
Raven: "The Return of Mayven" 10
Art: Manny Stallman Story: Manny Stallman
Letters 2
11 March 1967 Cover: Wally Wood
Dynamo: "The Death of Dynamo" 10
Art: Dan Adkins/Wally Wood & Dan Adkins
Lightning: "Lightning vs. The Vortex" 10
Art: Sekowsky/Giacoia Story: Steve Skeates
NoMan: "The Trap" 10
Art: John Giunta Story: Steve Skeates
THUNDER Agents: "Understudy For Dynamo" 10
Art: Chic Stone
Raven: "The Case of Jacob Einhorn" 10
Art: Manny Stallman Story: Manny Stallman
Letters 2
12 April 1967 Cover: Wally Wood
Dynamo: "Strength is Not Enough" 10
Art: Steve Ditko/Wally Wood & Dan Adkins
Lightning: "Speed Demon" 10
Art: Sekowsky/Giacoia Story: Steve Skeates
NoMan: "The Rock" 10
Art: John Giunta/John Giunta & Frank Giacoia
THUNDER Agents: "The Road to Spider HQ" 10
Art: Sekowsky/Giacoia & Giella Story: Skeates
Raven: "The Raven Battles the Storm Troopers of Xochimilco" 10
Art: Manny Stallman Story: Manny Stallman
Letters 2
13 June 1967 Cover: Wally Wood
Dynamo: "A Bullet for Dynamo" 10
Art: Dan Adkins/Wally Wood & Dan Adkins
NoMan: "Escape from Destiny" 10
Art: Ogden Whitney
Lightning: "The Quick and the Changing" 10
Art: Chic Stone Story: Steve Skeates
THUNDER Agents: "The Black Helmet" 10
Art: George Tuska
Undersea Agent: "The Second Atlantis" 10
Art: Paul Reinman Story: Steve Skeates
Letters 2
14 July 1967 Cover: Gil Kane
Dynamo/Andor: "Return Engagement" 10
Layouts: Wally Wood Tight Pencils: Steve Ditko
Inks: Wally Wood & Dan Adkins
Lightning: "To Fight is to Die" 10
Art: Chic Stone Story: Steve Skeates
NoMan: "On the Other Side" 10
Art: John Giunta Story: Steve Skeates
Raven: "Darkly Sees the Prophet" 10
Art: Gil Kane Story: GiI Kane
THUNDER Agents: "The Fist of Zeus" 10
Art: George Tuska
Letters 2
15 September 1967 Cover: Gil Kane
Dynamo/Andor: "Collision Course" 10
Art: Wally Wood
Lightning: "While Our Hero Sleeps..." 10
Art: Chic Stone Story: Steve Skeates
NoMan :"Starflight to the Assassin Planet" 12
Art: Ogden Whitney Story: Bill Pearson
Dynamo: "Hail to the Chief" 10
Art: John Giunta/Wally Wood & Dan Adkins
Weed: "Dig We Must" 10
Art: George Tuska
Pin-up: NoMan in Action (r: TA #4) 1
Pin-up: NoMan (r: TA #3) 1
16 October 1967 Cover: Wally Wood
Dynamo/Andor: "Dream of Doom" 10
Art: Steve Ditko
NoMan: "One of Our Androids is Missing" 10
Art: Gil Kane/Gil Kane & Jack Abel (Abel pgs. 1-5)
Lightning: "The Whirliwig" 10
Art: Chic Stone Story: Steve Skeates
THUNDER Agents: "The End of the THUNDER Agents?"
Art: George Tuska
17 December 1967 Cover: Ralph Reese?/Wally Wood
THUNDER Agents: "First Encounter" (r: TA #1) 4
Dynamo: "Return of the Hyena" 10
Art: Wally Wood & Ralph Reese/Wally Wood
NoMan: "The Locusts are Coming" 10
Art: Ogden Whitney
Weed: "Weed Out West" 10
Art: George Tuska
Dynamo: "Put Them All Together They Spell S.P.I.D.E.R." 10
Art: Chic Stone
18 September 1968 Cover: Reed Crandall
Dynamo: "Dynamo Meets the Amazing Mr. Mek" 10
Art: Steve Ditko
NoMan: "The Sinister Schemes of Professor Reverse" 10
Art: Ogden Whitney
Dynamo: "The Arena" 10
Art: Reed Crandall
Dynamo: "The Secret of the Abominable Snowmen" 10
Art: Chic Stone
Menthor: "A Matter of Life and Death" (r: TA #7) 10
Pin-up: NoMan in Action (r: TA #4) 1
19 November 1968 Cover: vignettes from TA #7, 8, 14 & 16
Dynamo: "Half an Hour of Power" 10
Art: Wally Wood & Ralph Reese/Wally Wood
Dynamo: "Dynamo vs. The Ghost" 10
Art: Paul Reinman
Dynamo: "All-Girl Gang" 10
Art: George Tuska
NoMan: "A Matter of Transmitters" 10
Art: Paul Reinman
Lightning: "Speed Demon" (r: TA #12) 10
Pin-up: Dynamo (r: TA #3) 1
20 November 1969 Cover: Chic Stone
Dynamo: "The Origin of THUNDER Agent Dynamo" 4
Art: Chic Stone
Dynamo: "The Return of the Iron Maiden" (r: TA #4) 10
NoMan: "Threat of the Amazing Vibraman" (r: TA #3) 10
THUNDER Agents: "The Deadly Dust" (r: TA #4) 10
Dynamo: "The Red Dragon" (r: TA #3) 10
UNDERSEA AGENT
1 January 1966 Cover: Ray Bailey
"Sink the Carrier Gettysburg" 14 Art: Ray Bailey
"Undersea Agent Meets Dr. Fang" 14
Art: Ray Bailey
"The Adventures of Skooby Doolittle" 9
Art: Ray Bailey
"Food, the Cycle of the Sea" 2
Art: Ray Bailey
"Underwater Exploration" 2
Art: John Giunta
Text 2
2 April 1966 Cover: Mike Sekowsky/Frank Giacoia
"Return of Dr. Fang" 10 Art: Ray Bailey/Sheldon Moldoff
"The Secret of the Flying Saucers" 11
Art: Ray Bailey/Sheldon Moldoff
"Double Jeopardy" 11
Art: Ray Bailey/Sheldon Moldoff (Moldoff splash)
"The Richest Man in the World" 11
Art: Ray Bailey/Sheldon Moldoff
"Buried Beneath the Sea" 10
Art: Mike Sekowsky/Frank Giacoia (even pages), Joe Giella (odd pages)
"Mysteries of the Deep" 1
Art: ?
"Ocean Oddities" 1
Art: ?
3 June 1966 Cover: Mike Sekowsky/Frank Giacoia
"To Save a King" 14 Art: Ray Bailey Story: Steve Skeates
"At the Mercy of Dr. Mayhem" 16
Art: Ray Bailey Story: Steve Skeates
"The Panther Whales" 10
Art: Mike Sekowsky/Frank Giacoia
"The Will Warp" 10
Art: Gil Kane Story: Steve Skeates
"True or False" 7
Art: John Giunta Story: Steve Skeates
"Submarines" 2
Art: John Giunta 4 August 1966 Cover: Gil Kane
"Introducing Dolph" 14 Art: Ray Bailey
"To Save a Monster" 13
Art: Gil Kane Story: Steve Skeates
"The Haunted Shipwreck" 14
Art: Ray Bailey
"Bait-Can Caper" 10
Art: Frank Bolle Story: Steve Skeates
Letters 1
5 October 1966 Cover: Gil Kane
"Born is a Warrior" 20 Art: Gil Kane Story: Gil Kane
"Death Darts from the Ocean Floor" 14
Art: Ray Bailey
"Merman" (part one) 10
Art: Manny Stallman
"The Showdown on Venue" (part two) 10
Art: Manny Stallman Letters 1
6 March 1967 Cover: Wally Wood
"Doomsday in the Depths" 20 Art: Gil Kane Story: Gil Kane
"The Sea Stalag" 10
Art: Ray Bailey
Merman: "Lobster Island" 10
Art: Ray Bailey
Letters 2
DYNAMO
1 August 1966 Cover: Wally Wood
"Menace from the Moon" 14 Art: Dan Adkins/Wally Wood & Dan Adkins
"A Day in the Life of Dynamo" 10
Art: Mike Sekowsky/Frank Giacoia
"Back to the Stone Age" 10
Art: Reed Crandall/Wally Wood & Dan Adkins
"Dynamo Meets the Amazing Andor" 10
Art: Steve Ditko/Wally Wood & Dan Adkins
Weed: "Wonder Weed, Super-Hero" 10
Art: John Giunta
2 October 1966 Cover: Wally Wood
"The Web of S.P.I.D.E.R." 10 Art: Chic Stone/Wally Wood & Dan Adkins
"S.P.I.D.E.R. Strikes at Sea" 10
Art: Dan Adkins/Wally Wood & Dan Adkins
"The Priceless Counterfeit" 10
Art: Dick Ayers/Wally Wood & Dan Adkins
"Between Two Enemies" 10
Art: Mike Sekowsky/Chic Stone
Weed: "The Hyena" 10
Art: George Tuska
Pin-up: Red Star 1
Art: Mike Sekowsky/Frank McLaughlin(?)
Pin-up: Andor the Humanoid 1
Art: Dan Adkins
3 March 1967 Cover: Wally Wood
"The Unseen Enemy" 10 Art: Wally Wood & Dan Adkins/Wood & Adkins
"Bad Day for Leonard Brown" 10
Art: Chic Stone Story: Ralph Reese
"The Feats of Samson" 10
Art: Chic Stone
"Honeymoon or High Noon?" 10
Art: Paul Reinman
Weed: "Weed vs. THUNDER" 10
Art: George Tuska
Letters 2
4 June 1967 Cover: Wally Wood
"The Maze" 10 Art: Dan Adkins/Wally Wood
"The Secret Word is..." 10
Art: Dan Adkins/Wally Wood
"Dynamo's Day Off" 10
Art: Chic Stone
"The Weakest Man in the World" 10
Art: Chic Stone
Weed: "Once Upon a Time" 10
Art: Steve Ditko/Wally Wood Story: Wally Wood
Letters 2
FIGHT THE ENEMY
1 August 1966 Cover: Mike Sekowsky/Frank Giacoia
Saga of the Lucky 7: "The Mission" 11 Art: Mike Sekowsky/Frank Giacoia
"The Well in the Desert" 6
Art: Jerry Grandenetti
"When It's Time to Die" 10
Art: Jerry Grandenetti
Secret Agent Mike Manly: "Message of Doom" 10
Art: Dick Giordano
"Chain of Command" 7
Art: José Delbo
"Iwo Jima" 6
Art: José Delbo
Gallant Warriors: "Major Charles Loring, Jr., USAF" 2
Art: Mike Sekowsky/Frank Giacoia
2 October 1966 Cover: José Delbo
Saga of the Lucky 7: "Michel's Revenge" 12 Art: Mike Sekowsky/Frank Giacoia & Joe Giella
"The Ace" 5
Art: Frank Bolle
"The Silent Service" 8
Art: Russ Jones/Al McWilliams Story: Russ Jones
"Dead Wrong" 9
Art: Ray Bailey
Mike Manly Secret Agent: "The XX119" 5
Secret Agent Mike Manly: "Assignment in Paris" 10
Art: José Delbo
"Green Berets" 12
Art: Boris Vallejo
K.P. McGoof 1
Art: Samm Schwartz
3 March 1967 Cover: Mike Sekowsky/Frank Giacoia
Zack Fight of the Green Berets: "The Draftee" 10 Art: Mike Sekowsky/Frank Giacoia
"Pearl Harbor... Old Subs Never Die..." 10
Art: Mike Sekowsky/Frank Giacoia
"The Young Ones" 8
Art: Al McWilliams
Secret Agent Mike Manly: "Assignment in Paris" 10
Art: José Delbo
Lucky-7 "A Date with Alice" 10
Art: Chic Stone
K.P. McGoof 2
Art: Samm Schwartz
"Robert Scott, American Ace" 1/2
Art: Wally Wood
NoMAN
1 November 1966 Cover: Wally Wood
"Fingers of Fate" 10 Art: Gil Kane/Paul Reinman
"Secret in the Sky" 10
Art: John Giunta
Lightning: "The Warp Wizard's Master Plan" 10
Art: Chic Stone Story: Steve Skeates
"Trapped in the Past" 10
Art: Ogden Whitney Story: Steve Skeates
"The Good Subterranean" 10
Art: Ogden Whitney
2 March 1967 Cover: Wally Wood
"Dynamo vs. NoMan" 10 Art: Ogden Whitney
"The Weird Case of the Kiss of Death" 10
Art: Ogden Whitney
Lightning: "The Web Tightens" 10
Art: Chic Stone Story: Steve Skeates
"Target NoMan" 10
Art: Ogden Whitney
"A Quick Change of Mind" 10
Art: Ogden Whitney Story: Steve Skeates
Paperback Collections
DYNAMO
(Tower Book 42-660) 1966 Cover: Wally Wood (r)
Frontis "Menace of the Iron Fog" (splash only, r: TA #1) 1 THUNDER Agents: "First Encounter" (r: TA #1) 12
Dynamo: "Menace of the Iron Fog" (r: TA #1) 34
NoMan: "NoMan Battles the Spawns of the Devil" (r: TA #1) 27
Menthor: "The Enemy Within" (r: TA #1) 35
Dynamo: "At the Mercy of the Iron Maiden" (r: TA #1) 29
NoMAN
(Tower Book 42-672) 1966 Cover: Chic Stone & Wally Wood (r) "In the Warlord's Power" (r: TA #2) 31
"NoMan Faces the Threat of the Amazing Vibraman" (r: TA #2) 29 "The Synthetic Stand-Ins" (r: TA #4) 29
"NoMan in Action" (r: TA #3) 3
"In the Caverns of Demo" (r: TA #5) 30
Back cover: NoMan pin-up (r: TA #3) 1
MENTHOR
(Tower Book 42-674) 1966 Cover: Steve Ditko & Wally Wood (r) "Menthor" (r: TA #2) 30
"Dynamo vs. Menthor" (r: TA #3) 29 "The Great Hypno" (r: TA #4) 33
"Menthor vs. the Entrancer" (r: TA #4) 30
Back cover: "The Great Hypno" splash (r: TA #4) 1
THE TERRIFIC TRIO
(Tower Book 42-687) 1966 Cover: Dan Adkins (r) Dynamo: "Dynamo Battles the Subterraneans" (r: TA #3) 28
Dynamo: "Dynamo Battles Dynavac" (r: TA #2) 39 Menthor: "The Carnival of Death" (r: TA #6) 31
NoMan: "To Fight Alone" (r: TA #6) 28

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