Monster Menace 1993 #2 - back issue - $4.00

Two escaped convicts stumble across a tribe of Indians, rob them of food, and plan to shoot them in the morning to eliminate witnesses to their flight. Their totem comes alive during the night in response to the chieftain's prayers and chases the convicts back to prison. They think they are safe, but the story ends with the totem tearing the iron bars off their cell window while they shrink back in fear from its approach.

A wealthy man urges his unambitious gardener to go into business for himself, his diligence saves the world when he snips a radioactive telepathic weed while it rests. His employer realizes that everyone has their own part to play.

A greedy businessman tries to cut down an ancient tree and is attacked by its branches during the night.

An advanced supercomputer turns Earth into a utopia, but suspicion remains, only to be inflamed when it is found to be building a giant robot. Humanity turns on the computer and destroys the robot, only to find that it was intended to replace the supercomputer, which breaks down, leaving humanity without its intelligence.

On-sale date from the ComicList Database as compiled by Jim Cowling with information from one distributor.

• - Ditko color credit confirmed by Mort Todd.
• When the Totem Walks! - Story continued in Monster Menace #4 (March 1994).
• Save Me from the Weed! - Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
• Jack Kirby, Atlas Comics and Monsters - Jack Kirby writes about the Marvel monsters; Mort Todd discusses the reprinted stories. Includes a key to the monsters Ditko illustrated on the cover.
• I Can't Escape from the Creeping Things! - Narrated in the first person.
• I Fought the Colossus! - Narrated in the first person.