(February 1961)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Vista Publications, Inc.
- Editing:
- Stan Lee
- Format:
- 4 Color; Standard 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. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
I Created the Colossus (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:
- Colossus [later "It, the Living Colossus"]
- Reprinted:
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008)
Indexer Notes
According to George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index #7B this cover is reprinted on page 9 panel 3 of the story in Astonishing Tales #24.
I Created the Colossus! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 18 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-57 (1–6); V-35 (7–18)
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Colossus [later "It, the Living Colossus"] (introduction, origin); Ivan Petrovski; Boris Petrovski
- Synopsis:
- A Russian dissident is forced by his loyal brother to build a giant statue glorifying the USSR. An alien crash lands and fuses with the statue for protection, animating it and defeating the whole military. The alien’s companions retrieve it and the sculptor claims that the statue was a judgement against dictatorship, frightening the regime.
- Reprinted:
- in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #17 (June 1972)
- in Astonishing Tales (Marvel, 1970 series) #24 (June 1974) [p 5: panel 2]
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008)
Indexer Notes
This story is divided into three chapters: an untitled chapter one (6 pp), Chapter Two—"The Colossus Lives!" (6 pp), Chapter Three—"The Power of the Colossus!" (6 pp). Job numbers visible in Masterworks reprint. Writer credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index. The last page asks for feedback on longer stories, directing letters to "Editor, Journey Into Mystery". Colossus next appears in issue #20 (August 1961).
The Comic (Table of Contents)
text story / 2 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- J-216
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Stan Wepp
- Synopsis:
- A bored television comedian is mysteriously transported back to the small mining town and small theatres that he loves.
- Reprinted:
- from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #45 (May 1956)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
I Am...Gorak! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-45
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Gorak
- Synopsis:
- A famous magician is enraged when his power is questioned, and he reveals that the whole world is an illusion, and only he is real. He even confronts the reader, but fades away as the story ends.
- Reprinted:
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #16 (July 1972)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008)
Indexer Notes
The last panel shows the last 2 pages of the story in miniature.
- Ethan Hoddes
- Darrel McCann
- Bill Borre
- Nick Caputo
- Bob Klein
- Martin O'Hearn
- Tony R. Rose
- Robert Wood
- Ramon Schenk
- Henry R. Kujawa
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