(March 1959)
Marvel,
1959 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1958-11-04
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Zenith Publishing Corp.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements (pages 2, 9, 15, 19, 25, 27, 33-36 of comic including inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover); pages of comic not numbered. All new stories are narrated in the first person. On-sale date calculated from on-sale dates of preceding and succeeding issues.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
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in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2013 series) #1 ([September] 2013)
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My Job: Capture a Martian!
cover / 1 page
- Script
- Stan Lee ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. Ditko)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. Ditko)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I knew it!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Mr. Garner
- Reprints
in 
When Aliens Meet!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Don Heck
- Inks
- Don Heck
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek ?
- Job Number
- T-138
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- How could I convince an alien race that I was more than an unthinking beast, when I...
- 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
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in Adventures into the Unknown (Arnold Book Company, 1950 ? series) #13 - in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #27 (1964 ?)
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #116 ([circa 1975 - 1976]), #145 ([circa 1980 - 1981]), #189 ([circa 1988 - 1989])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([January] 2006)
-
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 3-7 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
Trouble Bubble
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Maneely (signed as M.)
- Inks
- Joe Maneely (signed as M.)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- K-160
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- If there was some way to keep Jonathan, Jr. busy on a rainy day, his mother fervently...
- Genre
- science fiction
- 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
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
I Fell to the Center of the Earth!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Matt Baker
- Inks
- Vince Colletta
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-126
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- My name is Henry Burke!
- 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
- in Adventures into the Unknown (Arnold Book Company, 1950 ? series) #13
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #53
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #11
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #191 ([circa 1988 - 1989])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([January] 2006)
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Indexer Notes
Penciler credit, inker credit, and job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 10-14 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
Colorist and lettering credit per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Matt Baker.
I Was a Man in Hiding!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- T-136
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What a fool I was!
- 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
- in Adventures into the Unknown (Arnold Book Company, 1950 ? series) #13
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #53
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #11, #165 ([circa 1978 - 1979]), #199 ([circa 1984 - 1985])
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #191 ([circa 1988 - 1989])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([January] 2006)
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Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 16-18, 20 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 3, last page not numbered).
Possible Wessler script per Nick Caputo from information published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol 26, No. 4, April 2015. This may be a Wessler inventory story originally titled "One Who Hides".
I Spent Eternity in a Deep Freeze!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- T-141
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It was midnight!
- 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
- in Adventures into the Unknown (Arnold Book Company, 1950 ? series) #13
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #17 (1964 ?), #142 ([circa 1974 - 1975])
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in Spindelmannen (Red Clown, 1974 series) #5/1975 (1975) - in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([January] 2006)
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Indexer Notes
Possible Wessler script Per Michael J. Vassallo. Wessler's records have a story "The Man in the Deep Freeze" written originally for Marvel Tales on January 19, 1957. The story was apparently unused and not assigned to an artist until after the Atlas Implosion.
Art credit from Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 and Atlas Tales. Story is pages 21-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).
My Job: Capture a Martian
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Joe Sinnott (signed as Joe Sinnott)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (signed as Joe Sinnott)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-139
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Speaking of the impossible, that's exactly what was expected of me!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Mr. Garner; Professor 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
- in Adventures into the Unknown (Arnold Book Company, 1950 ? series) #13
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #53
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #11, #165 ([circa 1978 - 1979]), #199 ([circa 1984 - 1985])
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #191 ([circa 1988 - 1989])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([January] 2006)
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Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4, last page not numbered).
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
My Job: Capture a Martian!
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1.
When Aliens Meet!
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2.
Trouble Bubble
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3.
I Fell to the Center of the Earth!
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4.
I Was a Man in Hiding!
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5.
I Spent Eternity in a Deep Freeze!
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6.
My Job: Capture a Martian
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Keith Chandler
- Steve Coates
- Steve Dasinger
- Del Gruber
- Matthew Head
- Ethan Hoddes
- Steve Jenner
- machinal jocelyn
- Darrel McCann
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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