(January 1960)
- 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 October 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.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #4 (July 1971)
I Brought Zog the Unbelievable Back to Life!
cover / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Jack Kirby ?
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Zog
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #6 (May 1971) [partial]
Indexer Notes
Cover inks suggestion by Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors List (December 2008).
I Brought Zog Back to Life!
comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-497
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Charles Burton; Zog
- Synopsis:
- An alien giant is found in a glacier, causing fear of what might happen if it gets free. A scientist thinks that the fear is dangerous and frees it, finding that the alien is harmless.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #6 (May 1971)
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Underground
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- G-894
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Doyle Fairless; Sandy Clark
- Synopsis:
- A man is thought mad for designing underground homes, until everyone moves underground and surface-dwellers are thought mad.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #34 (October 1955)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
I Spent the Night in the Haunted Lighthouse!
comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Joe Sinnott
- Inks:
- Joe Sinnott
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-507
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- John
- Synopsis:
- A man visiting a coastal town is stranded in an abandoned lighthouse during a storm and sees a ghostly ship and pirates arrive. Next morning he finds a life preserver from the Flying Dutchman.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #4 (July 1971)
Indexer Notes
Information on this sequence from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
I Planted the Seeds of Doom!
comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Christopher Rule
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-501
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Hank Garnett
- Synopsis:
- A space explorer sells the seeds of an alien plant, before finding to his horror that the plants spawn monsters. He uses the monster’s need for water to escape and stop the growth of more like it.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #6 (May 1971)
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
I Shrunk Away to Nothing!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-487
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Brad; Prof. Ace
- Synopsis:
- A man needs to raise money for his brother's medical treatment and so he answers an ad from a scientist seeking to test a shrinking ray. He agrees to be the subject and the ray works. He finds himself shrinking past microscopic objects and finally finds himself in a new world. When he asks a native what this world is called, he receives the answer 'Earth'.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #6 (May 1971)
Indexer Notes
This story is retold in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #82 (March 1961) as "The World Beyond" (also drawn by Ditko). Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
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