(March 1960)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- bi-monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Male Publishing Corp.
- Editing:
- Stan Lee
- Format:
- 4 Color; Standard Silver Age US; Newsprint; Saddle-Stitched; 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 unless otherwise specified.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
Monstro! The Menace from the Murky Depths! (Table of Contents)
cover / 1 page (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Monstro
- Reprinted:
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
Indexer Notes
Cover inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 August 2006).
Monstro...The Menace from the Murky Depths! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 6 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-566
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Monstro; Prof. Faraday
- Synopsis:
- A giant octopus appears in the harbour of a communist seaport. An American marine biologist is sent to help, and finds that it is an ordinary octopus enlarged by communist nuclear tests, and will shrink back in 24 hours.
- Reprinted:
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
Indexer Notes
Inker credit and job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
The Story of Sammy Snork! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 3 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Bill Everett
- Inks:
- Bill Everett
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-574
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Sammy Snork
- Synopsis:
- A criminal accidently boards a Martian flying saucer and ends up on display in a zoo.
- Reprinted:
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
I Am the Changing Man! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-568
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Ozak; Les Page; Agent Craig
- Synopsis:
- A shape-changing alien assumes the identity of trusted figures to sow panic. He is caught when he assumes the form of a dog he sees on a poster, not noticing that it is on a space flight for the next year.
- Reprinted:
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
The Recipe (Table of Contents)
text story / 2 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- K-338
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Josie
- Synopsis:
- A tomboyish girl tries out cooking to appease her mother, but accidentally cooks a witch's brew, totally inappropriate for a fairy like her.
- Reprinted:
- from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #150 (September 1956)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
The Runaway Planet! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 3 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Doug Wildey
- Inks:
- Doug Wildey
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-5??
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Ludwig Hauptmann
- Synopsis:
- A professor believes that a planet on a collision course will not destroy Earth because of the power that governs the universe. The planet is actually a spaceship come to greet the humans.
- Reprinted:
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the second person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
It Walks by Night! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 6 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-573
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Living Robot [John]
- Synopsis:
- Robots are outlawed after a series of malfunctions. One man builds a robot in secret, he is found out and the robot destroyed but the man, a robot in disguise, escapes.
- Reprinted:
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #156
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the third person. Continues in the next issue. Robot's name from sequel. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
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