(December 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 August 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.
Goliath! The Monster That Walks Like a Man!
cover / 1 page
Credits
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- fantasy
- Characters:
- Goliath
- Reprints:
-
in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #10 (July 1971) [partially redrawn and relettered]
-
- Keywords:
- monsters
Indexer Notes
Cover inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors list, December 2008.
Goliath! The Monster That...Walked Like a Man!
comic story / 7 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-930
Content Information
- Genre:
- fantasy
- Characters:
- Goliath; Mr. Baxter; Charlie
- Synopsis:
- An advertising man tricks an advance agent of a proposed invasion from Atlantis into returning to Atlantis by building a mannequin even larger than Goliath and threatening to wage war with his people for the surface of Earth.
- Reprints:
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #10 (July 1971) [retitled "Gigantus! The Monster That...Walked Like a Man!"] which is reprinted
-
- Keywords:
- monsters
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. Goliath was re-named "Gigantus" in a reprint, and his home changed from "Atlantis" to "Mu". Goliath/Gigantus next appears in Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #347 (December 1990). Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
I Was Trapped by the Mole Men!
comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number:
- T-927
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Sir Norman Ramsay; Blake
- Synopsis:
- A snobbish mine owner is captured by subterranean creatures and kept in a zoo until the mine foreman rescues him. The experience teaches him to treat his employees with respect.
- Reprints:
-
in Fantomet (Semic, 1976 series) #21/1988 (uke 41 1988) -
in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #188 (none listed) [original title: I Was Trapped By the Mole Men!]
-
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
The Heat's On
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- H-366
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- John Tyler; Mary Tyler; Bobby Tyler
- Synopsis:
- When a young boy builds a fan to help his family get through a heat wave it brings down the flying saucer that caused the heat.
- Reprints:
- from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #44 (March 1957) which is reprinted
- from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #37 (November 1955) [as "The Heat's On"]
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustrations. Art credits from Journey Into Mystery #44 entry.
The Dangerous Doll
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee (plot)? ; Larry Lieber (script) ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- George Klein
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number:
- T-926
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Timothy Jones; Cathy Jones
- Synopsis:
- A poor man finds a doll in the field and gives it to his lame daughter. What he doesn't know is that the doll actually moves and talks. When he's gone the doll asks the girl for food as the "doll" is really an alien child that's gone off exploring other planets without his parents' supervision. When his parents do arrive, he asks the father to reward the girl for her kindness and he cures her leg and leaves behind a gold bar.
- Reprints:
- in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #20 (December 1972)
- in Crazy Magazine (Marvel, 1973 series) #76 (July 1981) [same art but new dialogue and lettering]
- in Fantomet (Semic, 1976 series) #2/1985 (uke 3 1985)
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #233 ([no date])
-
Indexer Notes
Klein inks per Nick Caputo, March 2013. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
I Took a Journey Into Fear!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
- Job Number:
- T-944
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Characters:
- Otto Bruger
- Synopsis:
- A man wants to build a time machine, but his colleagues say it is impossible. He works in secret and murders one of them to get the equipment that he needs, but when he activates the machine he goes mad and thinks that he has succeeded.
- Reprints:
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #6 (February 1972)
-
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
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