(September 1959)
Marvel,
1959 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1959-05-05
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Male 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. Almost all new stories are narrated in the first person. On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, July-December 1959, page 371, registration number B786579.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
I Became a Human Robot!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Sinnott (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg ?
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number
- T-336
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You fools didn't know... You never even suspected who I...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Gammus
- Synopsis
- An alien spy places his mind in a robot sent to Earth, hoping to be taken in for study. He gains access to data on Earth technology, but the scientists turn his robot body off, trapping him.
- Reprints
-
in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #37 (1963) -
in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #1 (February 1966) - in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([October] 2006)
-
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 3-7 of comic ( first page of story not numbered, then pages numbered 2 to 5).
The Masterpiece
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- G-864
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Claude Duval; M. Finnault; Mme. Fleury
- Synopsis
- A portrait painter is determined to paint a landscape, and eventually disappears into it.
- Reprints
- from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #28 (November 1955)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([October] 2006)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
I Fought the Tyrannosaurus
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. DITKO)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. DITKO)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-345
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- No, this isn't a time travel story!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Kate; Rod
- Synopsis
- A couple vacationing in Africa find a dinosaur egg that hatches a live tyrannosaur. The dinosaur terrifies the villagers, but eventually dies in a landslide.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #83, #28 (1964 ?), #195 ([circa 1980 - 1981])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([October] 2006)
- in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
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).
I Walk Thru Walls!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Paul Reinman (signed)
- Inks
- Paul Reinman (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- T-346
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A criminal accidentally makes a teleporter and uses it to commit incredible burglaries, until a clever cop sets a trap for him.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #28 (1964 ?)
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #240 ([circa 1987 - 1988])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([October] 2006)
-
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 4).
I Travelled Thru Time!!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- T-347
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- My name is Vladamir Gorki...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Vladamir Gorki; Professor Pskov; Benedict Arnold
- Synopsis
- A foreign spy escapes capture by using a time machine to flee to the 18th century, but finds that he has assumed the identity of Benedict Arnold and will be executed in his place.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #83, #28 (1964 ?)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([October] 2006)
-
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Art credits from Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 Series) #1. Story is pages 21-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).
I Was Trapped in the Tunnel to Nowhere!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- John Forte (signed)
- Inks
- John Forte (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg ?
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number
- T-340
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- We were 1900 fathoms below the surface waters...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Eric Lansing; Makka
- Synopsis
- An engineer attempts to build a tunnel from America to Europe but it is destroyed by inhuman creatures living in an undersea city.
- Reprints
- in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #37 (1963)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([October] 2006)
-
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 5).
Cover story.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Tunnel to Nowhere!
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1.
I Became a Human Robot!
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2.
The Masterpiece
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3.
I Fought the Tyrannosaurus
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4.
I Walk Thru Walls!
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5.
I Travelled Thru Time!!
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6.
I Was Trapped in the Tunnel to Nowhere!
This issue was modified by, among others
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Steve Dasinger
- Bill Devine
- Del Gruber
- Matthew Head
- Ethan Hoddes
- Steve Jenner
- machinal jocelyn
- Darrel McCann
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
- Mike White
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