(March 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 October 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.
It (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:
- Munch's animated construct [only called "It" in title]
The Thing Called...It! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 13 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-70
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Heinrich Munch; Munch's animated construct [only called "It" in title]
- Synopsis:
- A scientist builds a creature to kill a rival, but it refuses to obey. Its creator turns the local people against it, and in trying to kill the creature, the scientist is killed and the thing’s mind is transferred to his body, freeing it to live as a man.
- Reprinted:
- in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #4 (August 1966)
- in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #15 (February 1972)
Indexer Notes
This story is divided into two chapters: an untitled chapter 1 (6 pp) and chapter 2—"'It' Lives!" (7 pp).
The Utopia (Table of Contents)
text story / 2 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Joe Maneely
- Inks:
- Joe Maneely
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- K-188
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Bob Winkle; Fred Dunn
- Synopsis:
- Two old friends deceive each other about their own success, until a dream of a heavenly restaurant teaches them the importance of honesty.
- Reprinted:
- from Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #53 (September 1956)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
The World Beyond (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-62
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Synopsis:
- A scientist creates a pill to shrink himself to subatomic size, convinced that whole other worlds exist at microscopic levels. His pill works, and he vanishes into a whole new world called Earth.
- Reprinted:
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #17 (September 1972)
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #37 (September 1975)
Indexer Notes
This story is a retelling of "I Shrunk Away to Nothing!", also drawn by Ditko, from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #56 (January 1960).
Fangs of the Monster (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-59
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Darius Storme
- Synopsis:
- A cruel hunter pursues a sea monster for sport, but finds himself at its mercy. The creature is intelligent and telepathically berates the hunter, leaving him alive to suffer the punishment of never finding anyone who will believe his story.
- Reprinted:
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #37 (September 1972)
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person.
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