(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
- 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. Indicia date is October 1959. On-sale date from 1959 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
- 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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The Things on Easter Island!
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #24 (October 1973)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([January] 2006)
- in King-Size Kirby (Marvel, 2015 series) (2015)
- in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (2017)
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I Was Trapped by the Things on Easter Island!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Christopher Rule
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-327
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In mute amazement I watched as they stirred!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A pilot crash lands on Easter Island where he observes the statues rise out of the ground and discuss invasion plans of their home planet and the enslavement of Earthmen. He flees the pursuit of the statues and attempts to warn the proper authorities, but no one believes him. Eventually he begins to doubt his story as well, and unobserved, the statues who had been following him return to Easter island safe in the knowledge that no one would believe such an outlandish tale.
- Reprints
-
in Forbidden Worlds (Thorpe & Porter, 1950 ? series) #6 - in Zombie (L. Miller & Son, 1961 series) #8 ([circa 1961])
- in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #33 (1963)
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #24 (October 1973)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([January] 2006)
- in King-Size Kirby (Marvel, 2015 series) (2015)
- in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (2017)
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- Keywords
- Easter Island
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).
The Inventor
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- F-889
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ned Carter was a janitor, but he didn't like it very much.
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Ned Carter; Mr. Jonas
- Synopsis
- A disgruntled janitor's obsessive effort to create a sweeping robot costs him his job and ends in failure, but only because he sees no use for a perpetual motion machine.
- Reprints
- from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #32 (June 1955)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([January] 2006)
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Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
I Am the Menace from Outer Space!
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-324
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I am from a planet that spins in a galaxy so far from yours, you don't even know it exists!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Krag
- Synopsis
- An alien race sends a scout to Earth prior to their invasion, but when he investigates a mysterious space ship he is trapped and crushed, as the ship is actually a living being. The aliens believe he has been captured and call off the invasion.
- Reprints
- in Forbidden Worlds (Thorpe & Porter, 1950 ? series) #6
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #27, #222 ([circa 1984 - 1985])
- 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 10-14 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
I Can See Tomorrow!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Don Heck
- Inks
- Don Heck
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-330
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I never shoulda done it!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Willy Adams
- Synopsis
- A burglar steals a golden camera that takes pictures of tomorrow. He uses it to get information on the stock market and horse races, but when he photographs himself he realizes that he has no tomorrow.
- Reprints
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 Found the Nightmare Note
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Al Williamson (signed as
AL WilliAMSON) - Inks
- Al Williamson (signed as AL WilliAMSON)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-334
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- My name is Joe Baxter... and I was the assistant to the owner of a...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Joe Baxter; Spencer Worthington
- Synopsis
- An assistant at a record store devises a sound that will make a person unconscious, planning to use it to rob a wealthy customer. When the man doesn't pass out the crook thinks he failed, not knowing that the customer was deaf, and only bought records for his wife.
- Reprints
- in Frankenstein (Thorpe & Porter, 1963 series) #1 (1963)
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #17 (1964 ?), #142 ([circa 1974 - 1975])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([January] 2006)
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Indexer Notes
Story is pages 21-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).
I Landed on the Forbidden Planet!
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-339
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In the early 21st century, for some unknown reason, a planet just outside our...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Tim Korey
- Synopsis
- A space pilot visits a nearby planet, but finds that it is inhabited by giants, and so is too dangerous. He gets away, happy that his own universe is too tiny for the inhabitants of Earth to see it.
- Reprints
- in Adventures into the Unknown (Arnold Book Company, 1950 ? series) #20
- 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) #5/1974 (1974) -
in Big Boss (Arédit-Artima, 1970 series) #38 (1978) [N&B [B&W]] - in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #175 ([circa 1979 - 1980])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([January] 2006)
- in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)
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Indexer Notes
This story is similar to "The Changeling", drawn by Jack Kirby, in Tales of Suspense #23. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Things on Easter Island!
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1.
I Was Trapped by the Things on Easter Island!
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2.
The Inventor
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3.
I Am the Menace from Outer Space!
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4.
I Can See Tomorrow!
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5.
I Found the Nightmare Note
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6.
I Landed on the Forbidden Planet!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Bill Borre
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Steve Dasinger
- Del Gruber
- Matthew Head
- Ethan Hoddes
- machinal jocelyn
- Darrel McCann
- Stephen Mitchell
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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