Weird Wonder Tales 1973 #19 - back issue - $15.00

In the City Medical Club, a group of doctors is discussing the Tibetan lama who has requested medical attention from a Western physician. Anthony Druid decides to lend a hand. Before dying, the lama announces that Druid is fit to replace him in his battle against evil and passes on his mystic abilities.

The monarch of Planet X arrives on Earth in order to capture a town for experimental purposes back on his homeworld. The hero of our story defeats Groot with termites.

A boxer becomes a champion under hypnosis.

Spider-Man escapes from The Fly's death-trap with the help of a Hostess Twinkie.

On sale date from the Comic Reader #135.

• The Testing of an Occult Master! - Verpoorten credit per Nick Caputo, August 2012. Original indexer credited Al Milgrom ?.
• I Am Dr. Druid! - Original title: I Am the Fantastic Dr. Droom. Heavily edited for this reprint in accordance with Doctor Droom's retroactive renaming. New lettering on splash likely by Jim Novak. Possible Tartaglione corrections per Nick Caputo, who notes that Tartaglione was given a credit in the letters page of issue #21. Bonnie Wilford credit revealed in the letters page of issue #22.
• I Challenged...Groot! The Monster from Planet X! - Groot next appears in Marvel Monsters: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 in a flashback story, he then appeared in modern continuity in Nick Fury's Howling Commandos (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (January 2006) and eventually became a member of the second incarnation of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
• The Spider-Man and the Fly! - Featured in November and December 1976 Marvel comics.