(December 1960)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Zenith Publishing Corp.
- Editing:
- Stan Lee
- Format:
- Four Color; Standard Golden Age and Silver Age US; Newsprint; Saddle-Stitched; 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 unless otherwise specified.
Some information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Timely/Atlas discussion list. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
The Thing (Table of Contents)
cover / 1 page (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
I Was in the Clutches of the Living Shadow (Table of Contents)
comic story / 7 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-920
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Philip Lawson; Warlord Kaa (introduction)
- Synopsis:
- A writer witnesses the landing of two-dimensional alien warriors disguised as shadows. The writer escapes and warns the authorities in time for the shadow warriors to be uncovered and driven away.
- Reprinted:
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #31 (October 1974)
Indexer Notes
Warlord Kaa next appears in Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1968 series) #184 (February 1975). Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Music Master (Table of Contents)
text story / 2 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- G-804
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Joe; Gus; Angelo
- Synopsis:
- A struggling band takes on a poor but talented young harp player who turns out to be a young angel studying on Earth.
- Reprinted:
- from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #39 (October 1955)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
The Ghost of Grismore Castle! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 6 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-931
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Otis Norton; Victor
- Synopsis:
- A practical jokester tricks his friend into fleeing a haunted house only to be attacked by real ghosts. He promises never to play a prank again while his friend, actually a ghost, watches approvingly.
- Reprinted:
- in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #14 (October 1974)
- in Curse of the Weird (Marvel, 1993 series) #2 (January 1994)
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the third person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
I Found the Perfect Hiding Place! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Paul Reinman
- Inks:
- Paul Reinman
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-921
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Harry Stubbs
- Synopsis:
- A burglar plans to steal the crown jewels and then use a time machine to escape into the past. Instead, he is stranded in a hideous alternate world with no human civilization.
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
The Thing on the Moon (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-916
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Dan Carter
- Synopsis:
- Earth sends an expedition to the moon looking for a place to settle. They find a fertile valley and a robot left by the ancient empire of Atlantis to mark their claim to the moon.
- Reprinted:
- in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #14 (December 1974)
Indexer Notes
Set in 1970. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
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