(April 1960)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- bi-monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Zenith Publishing Corp.
- Editing:
- Stan Lee
- Format:
- Four Color; Standard Golden Age and Silver Age US; Newsprint; Saddle-Stitched; On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Distributed to newstands in November 1959. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person unless otherwise specified.
Some information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Timely/Atlas discussion list. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
Gorgolla the Living Gargoyle! (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:
- Gorgolla
- Reprinted:
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #35 (May 1975)
Gorgolla! The Living Gargoyle!! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 7 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-614
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- David Hartnell; Gorgolla
- Synopsis:
- A student finds that gargoyles are really a hidden alien race preparing to conquer the world but when their leader summons them they turn on him, having learned to appreciate humanity.
- Reprinted:
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #1 (January 1970)
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #35 (May 1975)
- in Astonishing Tales (Marvel, 1970 series) #22 (February 1974) [only 3.75 pages reprinted]
Indexer Notes
Gorgolla's people are next seen, along with his father, in Astonishing Tales (Marvel, 1970 series) #22 (February 1974). Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
The Whirlpool of Gairloch (Table of Contents)
text story / 2 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- C-127
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- John Potts; McPherson; Capt. Breslow
- Synopsis:
- A jewel thief ignores local superstitions to cross a haunted strait but finds that his disastrous voyage was only a dream when he wakes up with police at the door.
- Reprinted:
- from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #14 (April 1953)
Beware the Hands of Hundu (Table of Contents)
comic story / 6 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-621
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Hundu; Anne Walker; Mark Walker
- Synopsis:
- A gypsy gives magic paints that make anything painted with them real to an arrogant painter. He uses them to get revenge on a lover who jilted him but eventually his ambitions lead to his death.
- Reprinted:
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #35 (May 1975)
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
I Was Trapped in the Nightmare World (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Paul Reinman
- Inks:
- Paul Reinman
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-622
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Mr. Brown; Dr. Ethan Lindley; Kun
- Synopsis:
- A man travels to a frightening world of dreams and is attacked by dream beings. He discovers that the dream people believe his world is the source of nightmares and that its inhabitants are imaginary.
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
When the Totem Walks! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-604
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Bull Drago; Hunk; Totem (introduction, origin)
- Synopsis:
- Two convicts escape and terrorize a nearby Indian tribe. The chieftain defends his tribe by using his magic to bring a totem pole to life to chase the two all the way back to prison.
- Reprinted:
- in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #10 (June 1975)
- in Monster Menace (Marvel, 1993 series) #2 (January 1994)
Indexer Notes
Continues in next issue. Narrated in the third person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
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