(January 1961)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Vista Publications, Inc.
- 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 August 1960. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
Some information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers, Dr. Michael J. Vassallo, and others via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
Gargantus! (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:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Gargantus (sea monster)
Indexer Notes
New logo this issue, likely redesigned by Artie Simek. Information per Nick Caputo, Jan 2012.
What? What? What Was Gargantus! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 7 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-982
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Dan; Billy; Gargantus (sea monster, introduction)
- Synopsis:
- A deep sea explorer encounters a giant reptile that follows him back to the surface. The creature explores the surface, causing panic until it faints due to its inability to breathe air and is dumped back into the sea.
- Reprinted:
- in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #17 (May 1972)
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. Gargantus next appears in issue #85 (June 1961).
Time Machine (Table of Contents)
text story / 2 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- G-85
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Synopsis:
- A man's fascination with history leads him to build a time machine and travel to the past, but when he sees the dangers of time travel he destroys the machine and blueprints.
- Reprinted:
- from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #57 (March 1957)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Narrated in the first person.
The Things from Dimension X! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 6 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Lynwood; Koaa
- Synopsis:
- A scientist successfully creates a link to the dimension Electra only to find the inhabitants bent on conquest. They pour through the portal but are stopped when the carved presidents on Mt. Rushmore come to life and drive them back.
- Reprinted:
- in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #5 (October 1966)
- in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #17 (May 1972)
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person.
The Door They Dare Not Open! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Paul Reinman
- Inks:
- Paul Reinman
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- T-953
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Bruno Zuknik
- Synopsis:
- A prison warden treats inmates with kindness, and relies on an honor system to prevent them from opening the one closed door. A new prisoner defies the code and opens the door, but is taken to the warden's alien world to do hard labor.
Trapped in the Room of Shadows (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Sanford Kindwell; Kroger
- Synopsis:
- A millionaire looks for magical wishing stones with which he hopes to help all humanity. His greedy guide tries to steal the first stone, but only succeeds in using up its power and trapping himself.
- Reprinted:
- in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #22 (April 1973)
- in Fantomet (Semic AS, 1976 series) #8/1987
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