(November 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 June 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 Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #6 (November 1970)
- in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #19 (December 1976)
- in Inferno (Marvel Italia, 1996 series) #4 (Giugno 1997)
I Challenged... Groot! The Monster from Planet X!
cover / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Groot
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
Indexer Notes
Steve Ditko cover inks credit fron Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors list, February 2009.
I Challenged... Groot! The Monster from Planet X!
comic story / 7 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Larry Lieber ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-839
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Groot (introduction, origin); Leslie Evans; Alice Evans
- Synopsis:
- The monarch of planet X arrives on Earth in order to capture a town for experimental purposes back on his homeworld. The hero of our story defeats Groot with termites.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #6 (November 1970)
- in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #19 (December 1976)
- in Annihilation Classic (Marvel, 2008 series) #[nn] (2008)
Indexer Notes
Groot next appears in Marvel Monsters: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 in a flashback story, he then appeared in modern continuity in Nick Fury's Howling Commandos (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (January 2006) and eventually became a member of the second incarnation of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
Special Sale
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Joe Maneely
- Inks:
- Joe Maneely
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- J-932
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Marvin Kale; Paula Kale
- Synopsis:
- When a husband goes shopping he finds a new cleaning fluid that makes anything better than new, even him.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Strange Tales of the Unusual (Marvel, 1955 series) #5 (August 1956)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
I Found the Abominable Snowman!
comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-838
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Carl Hanson
- Synopsis:
- A thug ventures to the Himalayas with the intention of capturing the Abominable Snowman for profit but is frustrated in his attempts of getting the locals to refer him to the creature he has in a photograph. They all tell him to discard the photograph as it is cursed. He plods through the mountains for weeks unable to locate any trace, until his mind is addled, and he drops the photograph which is now a reasonable resemblance of what he has become.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Chamber of Darkness (Marvel, 1969 series) #7 (October 1970)
- in Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #19 (March 1976)
- in Inferno (Marvel Italia, 1996 series) #4 (Giugno 1997) [as "Ho scoperto l'abominevole Uomo delle Nevi", Italian translation]
- 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. This is a retelling of "I Captured the Abominable Snowman!" drawn by Steve Ditko in Strange Worlds (Marvel, 1958 series) #1 (December 1958).
My Friend is...Not Quite Human!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-836 ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Gustav; First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte (cameo)
- Synopsis:
- A misogynist wood-carver falls in love with his sculpture and has himself transformed into wood, but his refusal to pay a gypsy mystic leads to her making the wooden figure human out of spite.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
I Found the Hidden World!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-837
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Joey; Frankie
- Synopsis:
- An ex-con investigates a professor's theories about a world inside television sets. He proves the theory when a gate opens accidentally, allowing the inhabitants to pull through an old enemy of his trying to get revenge.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
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