(December 1960)

Marvel, 1951 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1960-07-28
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Zenith Publishing Corp.
Editing
Stan Lee (editor)

Issue Notes

Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements (pages 2, 9, 15, 19, 25, 27, 33-36 of comic including inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover); pages of comic not numbered. All the new stories are narrated in the first person unless otherwise specified. Some information supplied by Tom Lammers and the Timely/Atlas discussion list. On-sale date from 1960 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
This issue has variants:

The Thing (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
Stan Lee
Pencils
Jack Kirby
Inks
Steve Ditko
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Artie Simek
Genre
science fiction
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Cover Thumbnail for Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #79 Cover Thumbnail for Strange Tales (1951 series) #79 [British]
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I Was in the Clutches of the Living Shadow (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
Pencils
Jack Kirby (signed as Kirby)
Inks
Dick Ayers (signed as Ayers)
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Ray Holloway ?
Job Number
T-920
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.
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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. Story is pages 3-7, 10-11 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 7).

Music Master (Table of Contents: 2)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Jay Scott Pike (illustration)
Inks
Jay Scott Pike (illustration)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Editing
Stan Lee (original editor)
Job Number
G-804
Genre
fantasy-supernatural
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.
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Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).

The Ghost of Grismore Castle! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee ?
Pencils
Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)
Inks
Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Artie Simek
Job Number
T-931
Genre
horror-suspense
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.
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Indexer Notes

Possible Lee script per Nick Caputo's examination at his blog:

http://nick-caputo.blogspot.com/2011/11/who-authored-ditko.html

Narrated in the third person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Story is pages 12-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).

I Found the Perfect Hiding Place! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
Pencils
Paul Reinman (signed as Paul Reinman)
Inks
Paul Reinman (signed as Paul Reinman)
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Artie Simek
Job Number
T-921
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.
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Indexer Notes

Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

The Thing on the Moon (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
Pencils
Don Heck
Inks
Don Heck
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Artie Simek
Job Number
T-916
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.
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Indexer Notes

Set in 1970. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Thing
  2. 1. I Was in the Clutches of the Living Shadow
  3. 2. Music Master
  4. 3. The Ghost of Grismore Castle!
  5. 4. I Found the Perfect Hiding Place!
  6. 5. The Thing on the Moon
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