(November 1959)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- bi-monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Atlas Magazines, Inc.
- Editing:
- Stan Lee
- Format:
- 4 Color; Standard Golden Age and Silver Age US Size; Newsprint; Saddle-Stitched; Was On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Distributed to newstands in July 1959. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
I Found the Giant in the Sky!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- [T-437 ?]
Content Information
- Genre:
- fantasy
- Characters:
- Prof. Dunn
- Synopsis:
- A homely professor discovers the cloud kingdom of the giants and finds happiness there with a beautiful princess.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
Indexer Notes
Only "T-" visible in story, job number surmised from other stories in issue.
Strange Encounter
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Joe Maneely
- Inks:
- Joe Maneely
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- G-47
Content Information
- Genre:
- spy
- Characters:
- Andre Corday
- Synopsis:
- An American tourist in Paris is unwittingly targeted by a spy as an intelligence courier and is nearly killed.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Spy Thrillers (Marvel, 1954 series) #4 (May 1955)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Narrated in the first person.
I Was A Prisoner of the...Ape Creatures!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Joe Sinnott
- Inks:
- Joe Sinnott
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-438
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Dunstan Blake
- Synopsis:
- Blake lands on an alien world, where the telepathic natives look like cavemen. He is afraid of being dissected, but is instead is scanned with rays and sent back to Earth as uninteresting.
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
I Can Live Forever!
comic story / 4 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee ?
- Pencils:
- John Forte
- Inks:
- John Forte
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-439
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Henry; Marge
- Synopsis:
- A scientist studies redwoods looking for the secret of eternal life. He nearly meets disaster when he tests the formula on himself, and finds that to become immortal he must become immobile.
Indexer Notes
This story is retold in issue #74 (November 1961) as "Forever is a Long Long Time!" drawn by Don Heck, and in issue #103 (April 1964) as "To Live Forever!" by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber. Stan Lee is tentatively credited as writer on the basis of his plot credit for the version in issue #103.
My Neighbor's Secret!
comic story / 4 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- George Klein ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-440
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Sam; Noah
- Synopsis:
- An eccentric moves into a desert town and begins building a boat. Shortly afterwards, it begins to rain constantly and the man’s neighbour is shocked to discover his name is Noah.
Indexer Notes
Inker credit and job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
I Saw the Serpent that Saved the World!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-436
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Synopsis:
- A man dreams of a monster growing from an alien spore that is killed when it is eaten by a garter snake, a snake that he found in his yard as a boy.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
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