(June 1959)
Marvel,
1958 Series
- 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
- Manvis Publications Inc.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
Distributed to newsstands in March 1959. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person unless otherwise specified.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
in 
Journey to Jupiter!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Joe Sinnott (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-245
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Glenn Scott; Julie Scott
- Synopsis
- In the future the only planet closed to the others is Jupiter, surrounded by an impenetrable force field. A space pilot gets through the field by tempting the inhabitant's curiosity with a black box, which turns out to be empty.
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Over the Moon
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- J-884
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Mr. Collins; Jim
- Synopsis
- A science fiction movie director gets some help from a real alien and flying saucer, but the film bombs when the footage of the saucer is dismissed as too phony-looking.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
A Magician Walks among Us!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-242
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Prof. Dolen ["Merlin"]; King Arthur
- Synopsis
- A time traveler journeys into the past seeking Merlin and ends up becoming Merlin.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the third person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
The Man without a Past!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Carl Wessler ?
- Pencils
- Paul Reinman (signed)
- Inks
- Paul Reinman (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-243
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A man working on a futuristic assembly line panics when he realizes that he has no memory. The factory foreman deactivates him, since this is a common malfunction of overly advanced robots.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. This may possibly be "Assembly Line" listed in Carl Wessler's record books.
I Was the Changing Man!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Al Williamson
- Inks
- Al Williamson ?
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-244
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Duncan Sloane; Emmerich Fabius; Vincent Stalwart; Alfonso Galvez
- Synopsis
- A man invents a machine that allows him to take over anyone's body and tries to use it to gain the perfect life, but finds that he cannot predict what misfortunes may befall the people he takes the place of.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Manhunt on Mars!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- John Buscema
- Inks
- John Buscema
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number
- [T-241 ?]
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Anton Volochek
- Synopsis
- A dissident in a communist country escapes to Mars, but barely escapes from the hostile Martians. When he returns home he is a hero for his journey, and is able to escape to the West, where he warns them of the aliens, and explains that he convinced the communist leadership to go to Mars unarmed, hoping they will be killed.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Job number speculative based on other stories' number.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Manhunt on Mars!
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1.
Journey to Jupiter!
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2.
Over the Moon
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3.
A Magician Walks among Us!
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4.
The Man without a Past!
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5.
I Was the Changing Man!
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6.
Manhunt on Mars!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Bill Borre
- Nick Caputo
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Matthew Head
- Ethan Hoddes
- Steve Jenner
- Hunter Johnson
- Mike Nielsen
- Banks S. Robinson
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