(February 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 September 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.
The Scarecrow Walks! (Table of Contents)
cover / 1 page (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Scarecrow (irradiated monster)
The Scarecrow Walks! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 7 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-6
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Scarecrow (irradiated monster); Jarvis Cragstone; Albert Smith; Martha Smith
- Synopsis:
- A landlord cheats poor farmers out of their land in order to sell it for nuclear tests. Radiation animates the farmers' abandoned scarecrow which tracks down the man and forces him to give his profits to the farmers before its life ebbs away.
Mystery Trip (Table of Contents)
text story / 2 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Joe Maneely
- Inks:
- Joe Maneely
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- K-266
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Tommy Pidgeon; Goober Jones; Rosie; Uncle Pete
- Synopsis:
- Tommy's uncle returns from a space journey needing to re-learn how to walk on earth instead of floating.
- Reprinted:
- from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #46 (August 1956)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
A Giant There Was! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 6 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-9
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Joe Farrow
- Synopsis:
- A criminal steals beans that grow into a beanstalk leading to the land of giants. He tries to rob a castle, but he is caught and imprisoned with other criminals, lured by the same beans to become slave laborers for the giant.
Indexer Notes
Inspired by "Jack and the Beanstalk".
I Went Too Far Back! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Paul Reinman
- Inks:
- Paul Reinman
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-1
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Simon Burr
- Synopsis:
- A scientist's assistant travels to the past with a gun to rule a pre-technology world. Instead he finds that time is a loop, and when he travels back too far he finds himself a thousand years in the future, helpless before the psychic powers of future humans.
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person.
The Thing in the Cell! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-26
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Hans Vogez
- Synopsis:
- A corrupt police chief uses fines to fund a giant prison in order to increase his prestige. He jails a passerby for no reason, but is shocked to find that he is an alien leader whose followers take the whole prison when they cannot open his cell, leaving the chief disgraced.
- Reprinted:
- in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #5 (August 1974) [as "The Thing in Cell 13"]
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