(November 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 July 1960. 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:
- in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #11 (June 1971) [original title "I Was the Slave of the Living Hulk"]
Here Comes...The Hulk!
cover / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Hulk [Xemnu]; Joe Harper
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #11 (June 1971) [with retouching by Marie Severin]
- in Marvel Monsters (Marvel, 2006 series) #[nn] (2006)
I Was a Slave of the Living Hulk!
comic story / 13 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-913
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Hulk [Xemnu, later called "the Titan"] (introduction, origin); Joe Harper
- Synopsis:
- An electrician finds and revives an alien criminal. He psychically enslaves all humanity, forcing them to build him a ship that will help him escape and destroy the Earth. The electrician sabotages the ship and sends him into orbit around the Sun.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #11 (June 1971) [as "I Was the Slave of the Living Titan!"]
- in Marvel Monsters (Marvel, 2006 series) #[nn] (2006)
Indexer Notes
This story is divided into two chapters: Chapter 1—"The Coming of the Hulk!" (7 pp) and Chapter 2—"Slaves of the Hulk!" (6 pp). The Hulk next appears in Journey Into Mystery #66 (March 1961).
This is one of the first two 'feature-length' monster stories published by Marvel (the other was "I Created Krang!" published simultaneously in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #14). Three months later, these stories would be added to all four Marvel SF anthologies, and the next year a fifth series including them would be launched.
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Script credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.
Strange Mission
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Joe Maneely
- Inks:
- Joe Maneely
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- K-440
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Alfred Pook; Harold; Dr. Smith
- Synopsis:
- A man becomes confused over directions to the dentist and as a result accidentally pilots an expedition to claim a new planet.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #45 (September 1956)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
There Is a Brain Behind the Fangs!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-909
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Frank Miller; Dr. John Redfield; Laddie; Pharaoh
- Synopsis:
- A man is convinced that dogs are secretly planning to take over the world. His friend hypnotizes a dog and proves that it cannot understand complex questions. Neither suspects that the dog has been hypnotized by the cat.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #6 (February 1972)
Indexer Notes
This would not be the last crazy idea that Frank Miller would have. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
I Can't Escape from the Creeping Things!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-888
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Silas Bleede
- Synopsis:
- A greedy businessman tries to cut down an ancient tree and is attacked by its branches during the night.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #8 (June 1972)
- in Monster Menace (Marvel, 1993 series) #2 (January 1994)
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
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