(October 1960)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- 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 June 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.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
- in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #12 (August 1971)
- in Tower of Shadows [Special] (Marvel, 1971 series) #1 (December 1971)
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #161 (none listed) [original title: I Opened the Door to... Nowhere!]
Here Comes Gomdulla the Living Pharaoh!
cover / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- George Klein
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Gomdulla
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #12 (August 1971) [re-touched and re-inked]
Indexer Notes
Cover inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors list, December 2008.
I Defied Gomdulla--The Living Pharoah!
comic story / 7 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-858
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Gomdulla; Paul
- Synopsis:
- An ancient alien robot disguised as an Egyptian mummy-god is reactivated, and forms a cult until it is foiled by a policeman and his own high priest.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #12 (August 1971)
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Lucilles's Robot [sic]
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- C-478
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Lucille Swart; Arnold Swart; Rogo the Robot; Frank Swart; Jimmy Swart; Officer Murphy; John Winters
- Synopsis:
- An engineer presents his wife with a robot to do her housework. He believes he is playing a prank, but the robot is real.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Adventures Into Weird Worlds (Marvel, 1952 series) #19 (June 1953)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
I Dared Enter the Haunted Forest!
comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-859
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Darius Zorn
- Synopsis:
- A bigoted rich man buys a cursed forest, unconcerned with the misfortunes that befall the village. The forest's keeper takes him to another dimension, explaining that he was looking for a man who no one would miss to display in the alien zoo.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #13 (October 1971)
Indexer Notes
'Zorn' seems to have been a stock character of Don Heck. This one bears a physical resemblance to Roderic Zorn in the previous issue, but the similarity ends there. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
I Opened the Door to...Nowhere!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-884
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Synopsis:
- A thief forces a shop owner to hide him in a back room, but finds himself opening doors without rest for years.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #17 (September 1972)
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #161 (none listed)
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the third person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
The Curse of M'Gumbu!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Paul Reinman
- Inks:
- Paul Reinman
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-860
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- M'Gumbu
- Synopsis:
- An African tribe ignores their witch-doctor's admonishments against raiding, believing that his vow never to harm another makes him helpless. When they try to kill him he shrinks the entire tribe to protect others.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #7 (May 1972)
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the third person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
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