(March 1959)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- bi-monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Atlas Magazines, Inc.
- Editing:
- Stan Lee
- Format:
- 4 Color; Standard Golden Age and Silver Age US Size; Newsprint; Saddle-Stitched; Was On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Distributed to newstands in December 1958. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
Robot on the Rampage
cover / 1 page
Credits
- Pencils:
- Russ Heath
- Inks:
- Russ Heath
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Supreme Calculator
- Reprints:
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #148 (None Listed)
The Ghost Ship of Space
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Joe Sinnott
- Inks:
- Joe Sinnott
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- [T-156]
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Frank Brandon; Ben; Charlie; Smitty
- Synopsis:
- A reporter investigates a series of spaceship disappearances and is captured by primitive aliens. He forces them to free him by pretending that a simple gadget is a powerful bomb.
- Reprints:
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #148 (None Listed)
Indexer Notes
This story is set in 2705. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Mystery Pupil
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Joe Maneely
- Inks:
- Joe Maneely
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- K-382
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Colin; Mr. Plum; Gertrude
- Synopsis:
- A dull teacher earns accolades by accidentally helping capture a Martian criminal.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #52 (October 1956)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
The Creatures in the Volcano
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Wally Wood
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-153
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Tubuai; Mauiki
- Synopsis:
- A chief of a Pacific island tribe finds aliens in a volcano preparing to conquer Earth. He thinks his people will not believe him, so he instead agrees to sell the island to the US for nuclear tests, which destroys the aliens.
- Reprints:
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #148 (None Listed)
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
The Prison Planet!
comic story / 4 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-155
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Vaalu (narrator); Uxmal (in framing sequence)
- Synopsis:
- A prison colony grows into a thriving society and forgets its origins, while the mother planet becomes a peaceful utopia before being devastated by invaders. The mother planet was Mars, and the prison planet Earth.
Indexer Notes
This story is narrated by some kind of alien "watchers", bearing no resemblance to the later Watchers. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Alien on Earth!
comic story / 4 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Christopher Rule
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-165
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Synopsis:
- An alien lands on Earth, but cannot be understood. The humans attack it out of fear, and finally drop a nuclear bomb on it. The alien leaves, not out of fear, but because its attempt to make peaceful contact has shown that humans are barbarians.
- Reprints:
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #148 (None Listed)
Indexer Notes
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Robot on the Rampage!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-135
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Supreme Calculator
- Synopsis:
- A supercomputer and its army of robots enslave humanity, but it is stopped when a janitor unplugs it.
- Reprints:
- in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #31 (November 1971)
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #148 (None Listed)
Indexer Notes
This story is set in the late 22nd century. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. No relation to an identically titled story drawn by Ditko in Tales to Astonish #18.
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