(June 1959)

Marvel, 1956 Series
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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
Zenith Publishing Corp.
Editing
Stan Lee (editor)

Issue Notes

Distributed to newsstands in March 1959. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.

Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Xom! The Menace from Outer Space! (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Jack Kirby
Inks
Christopher Rule
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Artie Simek

Genre
science fiction
Characters
Xom; Philip Lindsey
Reprints

The Creatures Who Captured Earth! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
Pencils
Don Heck
Inks
Don Heck
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Artie Simek

Job Number
T-252
Genre
science fiction
Characters
John Warren
Synopsis
Aliens come to Earth and give humans the technology to make war and work unneccessary. One man is suspicious, and proves that they were only softening up humanity for an invasion.

Indexer Notes

This story is retold in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #86 (July 1961) as "Beware of Meeks Bringing Gifts!" drawn by Jack Kirby. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassello via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

The Party (Table of Contents: 2)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
? (illustration)
Inks
? (illustration)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
J-959
Genre
humor
Characters
Mr. Braggle
Synopsis
A salesman trying to unload some oil stocks thinks that he’s found a rich mark, but instead walks into a party of talking dogs.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

The Clock Strikes Never! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Steve Ditko (signed)
Inks
Steve Ditko (signed)
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Artie Simek

Job Number
T-239
Genre
science fiction
Characters
Frank Hanes; Fate
Synopsis
A bitter inventor steals the time machine he invented for his company and some money and escapes to the future. The police of the future are waiting for him, so he goes into the past, but the machine disintegrates and he becomes young again, re-emerging with no memory and the opportunity to make a better choice.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassello via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

To Build a Robot! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
Pencils
Jack Kirby
Inks
Christopher Rule
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Artie Simek

Job Number
T-237
Genre
science fiction
Characters
Luther Worthington; Dexter Scott
Synopsis
A young engineer attempts to acquire funding from a wealthy industrialist in order to build an android. The industrialist is secretly an android himself, who dissuades the young man in order to discourage competition from other androids.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the second person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassello via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

The Man Who Talks to the Stars (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
Pencils
John Forte (signed)
Inks
John Forte (signed)
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Artie Simek

Job Number
T-232
Genre
science fiction
Characters
Hank Johnson; Freddy; XR79B
Synopsis
A reporter interviews a man who claims to be able to communicate with other worlds, but he disappears when he realizes that he accidentally visited a primitive world.

Indexer Notes

Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassello via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

Xom! The Menace from Outer Space! (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
Pencils
Joe Sinnott (signed)
Inks
Joe Sinnott (signed)
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
?

Job Number
T-231
Genre
science fiction
Characters
Xom; Philip Lindsey
Synopsis
A group of human explorers are asked by aliens to help them destroy a monster, but the monster is harmless and the aliens are really ivory hunters.

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the first person. This story is set in the year 2744. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassello via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Xom! The Menace from Outer Space!
  2. 1. The Creatures Who Captured Earth!
  3. 2. The Party
  4. 3. The Clock Strikes Never!
  5. 4. To Build a Robot!
  6. 5. The Man Who Talks to the Stars
  7. 6. Xom! The Menace from Outer Space!
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Dwayne Best
  • Bill Borre
  • Nick Caputo
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Merlin Haas
  • Matthew Head
  • Ethan Hoddes
  • Matthias Hofmann
  • Hunter Johnson
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Gregory Roe
  • Richard Thomson