(March 1960)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- bi-monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Zenith 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.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
Mummex King of the Mummies, Lives Again!!
cover / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Mummex [Raaka]
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
Indexer Notes
Steve Ditko cover inks added as per Nick Caputo via the Error Tracker (January 2009)
I Dared Defy the Floating Head!
comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Paul Reinman (signed)
- Inks:
- Paul Reinman (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-562
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Bruce; Hank Rogers; Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr. (cameo)
- Synopsis:
- A giant floating head appears over New York, claiming that it is the advance scout of an alien invasion, and ordering everyone to evacuate. People panic when the head destroys a warehouse to demonstrate its power, but a young boy reveals that the whole thing is a hoax by criminals hoping to loot the empty city.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (September 1970)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
I Live Again!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-565
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Evil [only called "The Thing from Bald Mountain" in a caption]
- Synopsis:
- The animated statue rises up from where it fell in the last story and decides to go to America so that it can conquer the world. When it arrives it hides in a building that is actually a rocket that is shot into space.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #3 (November 1970) [monster called 'Monster on Bald Mountain' instead; captions altered]
- in Monster Menace (Marvel, 1993 series) #3 (February 1994) [monster called 'Monster on Bald Mountain' instead; monster originally called "The Thing from Bald Mountain"]
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
Indexer Notes
Story continued from last issue. Narrated in the third person. The creation of the creature recounted in this difference is different from that in the last (it was made of clay, not stone. This doesn't seem to just be a script problem, since the monster also looks different. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
New Glasses
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- K-368
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Herbert; Mr. Blooper
- Synopsis:
- A man insists on getting a specially made pair of glasses in a hurry, and finds that the optician has a magical corridor that leads back in time.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #30 (October 1956)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
I – Am – The – Genie!
comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-559
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Freddy
- Synopsis:
- A criminal finds a genie and uses it to wreak havoc, but when he goes too far he takes the genie’s place in the bottle.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #1 (November 1970)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
Indexer Notes
Story continues in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #9. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Mummex---King of the Mummies!
comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-563
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Mummex [Raaka]; Paul Fleming; Sara
- Synopsis:
- An archaeologist finds a giant mummy in the Egyptian desert. It rises and searches the tombs and museums of the area, examining several mummies before returning into the desert. The scientist follows it and sees the mummy enter a spaceship and lift-off. It was actually an explorer looking for missing space pilots, who wear mummy-like bandages as protective suits.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #1 (November 1970)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (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.
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