(January 1959)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- bi-monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Male Publishing Corp.
- Editing:
- Stan Lee
- Format:
- 4 Color; Standard Silver Age US; Newsprint; Saddle-Stitched; On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Distributed to newstands in September 1958. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
I Dared to Explore the Unknown Emptiness! (Table of Contents)
cover / 1 page (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck (signed)
- Inks:
- Don Heck (signed)
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Reprinted:
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
The Strangers from Space! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Al Williamson (signed)
- Inks:
- Al Williamson (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-100
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- General Krenkle; Lieutenant Morrow
- Synopsis:
- In the future an alien ship arrives and lands at the world capital. The alien’s human form calms hostility and allows peaceful contact. The alien really projected an image to pacify bigotry.
- Reprinted:
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
- in America's Greatest Comics (AC, 2002 series) #8
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
The Newshound (Table of Contents)
text story / 2 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Joe Maneely
- Inks:
- Joe Maneely
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- K-241
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Snoop Scooper; Marsha Marlow
- Synopsis:
- A reporter with an uncanny nose and a woman with keen hearing and become the blueprints for a new breed of journalists.
- Reprinted:
- from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #50 (September 1956)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
I Dared Explore the Unknown Emptiness! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-95
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Dr. Jonathan Marteens (behind the scenes); Col. Frank Stevens
- Synopsis:
- In the 25th-century, humans use a new cobalt fuel in their search for a colony world to relieve overpopulation. They find that humans can only flourish on Earth, and should appreciate it more.
- Reprinted:
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
The Day I Left My Body! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 4 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- John Buscema
- Inks:
- John Buscema
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- M-527
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Wells; Martin Shaw; Ellen Shaw
- Synopsis:
- A prisoner accidentally gains a psychic hold on a lawyer. He forces the lawyer to work constantly on his appeal, but fatigue hurts the lawyer’s oratory and the murderer is sentenced to death.
- Reprinted:
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person.
He Fled in the Night (Table of Contents)
comic story / 4 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Larry Lieber
- Inks:
- Larry Lieber
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-96
Content Information
- Genre:
- period
- Characters:
- Robinson Crusoe
- Synopsis:
- A restless clerk leaves England for a life at sea, thinking that he will found an empire in the Pacific. Robinson Crusoe, the clerk, is sure his voyage will make his fortune.
- Reprinted:
- in Kull the Destroyer (Marvel, 1973 series) #13 (April 1974)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Prisoner of the Satellites! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-107
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Mark Coren; Zak; Ozt
- Synopsis:
- Aliens launch satellites that shrink objects onto Earth in preparation for an invasion, but the humans harness the power of cosmic rays to reverse the effects and the aliens abandon the plan.
- Reprinted:
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
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