(March 1959)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- bi-monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Zenith Publishing Corp.
- Editing:
- Stan Lee
- Format:
- 4 Color; Standard Silver Age US; Newsprint; Saddle-Stitched; On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Distributed to newstands in November 1958. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
My Job: Capture a Martian!
cover / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Mr. Garner
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
When Aliens Meet!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-138
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Dunstan Craig
- Synopsis:
- A ruthless outer space game hunter captures specimens for zoos, but when he is forced to crash land on an alien world the inhabitants see him as an animal and put him in a zoo. He escapes, but resolves never to cage another animal.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Trouble Bubble
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Joe Maneely
- Inks:
- Joe Maneely
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- K-160
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Jonathan Jr.; Nora; Jonathan Sr.; Mr. Bigger
- Synopsis:
- A boy discovers a formula to blow unbreakable bubbles and accidentally entraps his father's boss.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #49 (September 1956)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
I Fell to the Center of the Earth!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Matt Baker
- Inks:
- Vince Colletta
- Colors:
- Matt Baker ?
- Letters:
- Matt Baker ?
- Job Number:
- T-126
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Henry Burke
- Synopsis:
- A scientist drills into the core of the Earth, and somehow travels back in time, where he witnesses a dinosaur attacking neanderthals.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
Indexer Notes
Penciler credit, inker credit, and job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
I Was a Man in Hiding!
comic story / 4 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- John Buscema
- Inks:
- John Buscema
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-136
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Harry Grant; Anne Grant
- Synopsis:
- A man in 2087 robs a payroll and flees to a primitive world to avoid detection by his electric wrist band. Once he arrives he realizes that the people there are a fraction of the size of humans, and so he can be easily found.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #199 ([no date - circa 1978])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
I Spent Eternity in a Deep Freeze!
comic story / 4 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Bob Forgione ?
- Inks:
- Bob Forgione ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-141
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Joe Sykes; Martha Sykes
- Synopsis:
- A petty criminal volunteers to be sent in deep freeze to the end of the universe and back. When he awakens he finds that he has looped through space and time and it now in an alternate dimension when he can not be seen or heard.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
Indexer Notes
Sequence is unsigned, but Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 also credits Forgione on art.
My Job: Capture a Martian
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Joe Sinnott (signed)
- Inks:
- Joe Sinnott (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-139
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Mr. Garner; Prof. Webb
- Synopsis:
- A private detective humours a man who says he saw a flying saucer with an investigation, but he convinces the man it is pointless. He feels bad for his harsh words, but reports back to Mars that suspicion of their invasion has been averted.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #199 ([no date - circa 1978])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
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