(October 1960)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- 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 May 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.
Here Comes...Gorgilla!
cover / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Gorgilla
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
I Discovered Gorgilla! The Monster of Midnight Mountain!
comic story / 7 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-873
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Gorgilla (introduction); Scotty; Anne; Frank
- Synopsis:
- An expedition finds the missing link between apes and humans in Borneo. It is initially hostile, but defends its fellow primates from a dinosaur.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #9 (February 1971)
- in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #21 (March 1977) [with alterations; as a Doctor Druid story]
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Gorgilla next appears in issue #18 (April 1961).
The Sorcerer
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Joe Maneely
- Inks:
- Joe Maneely
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- H-203
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Tom Morton; Jack Morton; Ellen Morton; Johnny Morton
- Synopsis:
- A man who has travelled the world and seen wonders performed by hermits in India returns home to find that his young nephew creates magic with only belief.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Strange Tales of the Unusual (Marvel, 1955 series) #1 (December 1955)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
My Nightmare Has No End!
comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-874 ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Synopsis:
- A man meets an extradimensional being in his nightmares. The being tells him that the world he comes from is a paradise, but boring, and offers to switch places. The man agrees, but the traveller wakes up to find that he entered the dreams of a prisoner.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #4 (August 1966) [as "I am the Beast Man"]
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #4 (July 1971)
- in Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #19 (March 1976)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2
Indexer Notes
This story was retold in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #94 (March 1962) as "He Came from Nowhere!" by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber and George Tuska, but with the alien having the last laugh. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Save Me! Save Me!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Paul Reinman
- Inks:
- Paul Reinman
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-875
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Albert Poole
- Synopsis:
- A scientist makes himself able to walk on water in order to steal secret military plans from a ship. But when he returns to the shore he finds that he now sinks on land.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
A Monster Waits Outside!!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-876
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Maj. Ford
- Synopsis:
- An astronaut is sent into orbit in a tiny sphere without communication. He sees a monster trying to claw its way in and panics, signalling ground control to bring him back. They think that it was a hallucination, but they find a broken claw on the spacecraft.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #3 (March 1971)
- in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #24 (September 1976) which is reprinted
- in L' Incroyable Hulk (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #61 ([Août 1976])
- in Fantomet (Semic AS, 1976 series) #25/1985 (3. desember 1985)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the second person. This story was retold with some differences in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #24 (December 1961) as "The Insect Man" drawn by Jack Kirby. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
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