(November 1957)
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Western Tales Inc.
- Brand
-
A Thrill Adventure
- Editing
- Leon Harvey (editor and vice-president); Alfred Harvey (president); Robert Harvey (vice-president and business manager)
Issue Notes
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Simon credit per Nick Caputo confirmed by Harry Mendryk: http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/4444
Previous indexer credited Mort Meskin with pencils and George Roussous with inks.
[no title indexed]
table of contents / 1 page
- Script
- Joe Simon ?
- Pencils
- Joe Simon; Jack Kirby (illustrations)
- Inks
- Joe Simon; Marvin Stein (illustrations)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Howard Ferguson
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Aha! So you did come back...
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Table of contents includes repros of splash pages and additional art.
Hole in the Wall
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
-
in Shocking Tales Digest (Harvey, 1981 series) #1 (October 1981) which is reprinted -
in The Simon and Kirby Library (Titan, 2010 series) #[nn] - Science Fiction (March 2013) - in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #397-A - Alarming Tales Readers Collection (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Stein inks per Harry Medreck's site: http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/4444
Previous indexer credited Jack Kirby.
Kirby script per Martin O'Hearn's site: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/
The Hero
comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Stein art per Harry Mendrek's Simon and Kirby blog. Gene Reed previously credited Bob Brown with pencils. Writer credit by Martin O'Hearn.
The Big Hunt
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- in Shocking Tales Digest (Harvey, 1981 series) #1 (October 1981) which is reprinted
- in America's Greatest Comics (AC, 2002 series) #7 ([July] 2003)
- in The Simon and Kirby Library (Titan, 2010 series) #[nn] - Science Fiction (March 2013)
- in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #397-A - Alarming Tales Readers Collection (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Possible Kirby inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Mort Meskin.
The Fireballs!
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- in Blackhawk (Thorpe & Porter, 1956 series) #26 (1956)
- in Shocking Tales Digest (Harvey, 1981 series) #1 (October 1981)
- in The Simon and Kirby Library (Titan, 2010 series) #[nn] - Science Fiction (March 2013)
- in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #397-A - Alarming Tales Readers Collection (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
credits per Harry Mendrck's site: http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/4444
The Traitor
text story / 1 page
- Script
- Jack Oleck
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Writer credit by Martin O'Hearn.
I Want To Be a Man!
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A scientist creates a powerful calculating machine he names Fabiac. He's shocked when he discovers Fabiac has gained sentience and asks to be like a man. The scientist builds him a body, but when Fabiac sees himself in a mirror and realizes he's a hulking monstrosity, he destroys himself.
- Reprints
- in Blackhawk (Thorpe & Porter, 1956 series) #26 (1956)
- in Shocking Tales Digest (Harvey, 1981 series) #1 (October 1981)
- in The Simon and Kirby Library (Titan, 2010 series) #[nn] - Science Fiction (March 2013)
- in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #397-A - Alarming Tales Readers Collection (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Nick Caputo suspects that Simon and Kirby were both involved in the inking. Previous indexer credited Mort Meskin.
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
["Aha! So you did come back..."]
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2.
Hole in the Wall
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3.
The Hero
-
4.
The Big Hunt
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5.
The Fireballs!
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6.
The Traitor
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7.
Solitude
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8.
I Want To Be a Man!
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Gregory Fischer
- Merlin Haas
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Gene Reed (R.I.P.)
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
- Mike White
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