(July 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 March 1960. 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.
I Unleashed Shagg Upon the World!
comic story / 7 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-724
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Shagg
- Synopsis:
- An explorer wakes the Sphinx, really a robot warrior called Shagg. Since it was awakened too early, it wipes the memories of his rampage and returns to hibernation. The only evidence left is the explorer’s journal.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
-
in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (1962) - in Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #18 (January 1976)
-
- Keywords:
- monsters
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
The Green Man
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- A-189
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Barney
- Synopsis:
- A former pilot can't get anyone to believe his story about the fatal radium poisoning he picked up from an alien, and so keeps spreading it.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #2 (April 1952)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
I Was Trapped in Horror House!
comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Paul Reinman
- Inks:
- Paul Reinman
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-725
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Joe Kane; Charlie Jordon
- Synopsis:
- A convict escapes from death row and hides in a haunted house in an amusement park. A mysterious figure leads him into hotter and hotter tunnels and he never emerges from the house.
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
The Revenge of the Wooden Woman
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-717
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Captain Cork
- Synopsis:
- A sea captain's love for his wooden figurehead is repaid when it saves his life after an attack by pirates.
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the third person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
I Am the Beast-Man!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-733
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Igor Grozick
- Synopsis:
- A Russian spy masquerades as a talking bear in order to embarrass the West when the hoax is revealed. He finds that the radiation which he pretended gave a bear the ability to speak actually transformed him into a bear.
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
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