(March 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 October 1960. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person unless otherwise specified.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
Behold...Goom!...The Thing from Planet X! (Table of Contents)
cover / 1 page (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Goom
- Reprinted:
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008)
Goom! The Thing from Planet X! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 13 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-87
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Goom (introduction, origin); Mark Langley (introduction); Helen Langley (introduction)
- Synopsis:
- After attracting the hostile attention of Goom of Planet X, a scientist realizes that any civilization possessing such advanced technology must be benevolent and that his radar transmissions must have been intercepted by a criminal. He rebroadcasts to Planet X, and the Earth officials plan to execute him as a traitor summoning a full invasion fleet from Planet X, when the representatives from Planet X arrive and stop the execution and take Goom into their custody and leave the planet.
- Reprinted:
- in Giant-Size Man-Thing (Marvel, 1974 series) #1 (August 1974)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #6 (2008)
Indexer Notes
This story is divided into two part: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Goom" (7 pp). Mark and Helen Langley next appear in issue #17 (May 1961), along with Goom's son. Goom's next published appearance is in Warlock and the Infinity Watch (Marvel, 1992 series) #7 (August 1992); while his next chronological appearance is in Marvel Monsters: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005); he also appeared in Nick Fury's Howling Commandos (Marvel, 2005 series). The speech of the scientist hero at the end is similar to many others in Marvel books at this time, including Reed Richards' speech in Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #24 (March 1964).
Masquerade (Table of Contents)
text story / 2 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- G-750
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Tommy; Kitty Blake; Old King Cole
- Synopsis:
- A man with no imagination is invited to a costume party by his girlfriend, but stumbles across real fairy-tale folk instead.
- Reprinted:
- from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #38 (October 1955)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
I Am The Living Ghost! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Synopsis:
- A man enters a castle determined to prove that there are no ghosts, but the events he experiences convince him that the castle is haunted, and so he flees. It turns out that the castle does not contain any ghosts, but is possessed by animated suits of armor and living stone gargoyles.
- Reprinted:
- in Giant-Size Dracula (Marvel, 1974 series) #4 (March 1975)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #6 (2008)
Indexer Notes
Narrated by one of the animated beings.
Moomboo! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-56
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Moomboo
- Synopsis:
- A shaman cons his tribe, but when a seemingly magic idol appears he attacks it and it vanishes. It was an extra-dimensional scout, and its experience decides its people not to contact Earth.
- Reprinted:
- in James Bond (Semic Press AB, 1965 series) #19/[1972] (April 11, 1972) [as "Moomboos magi", Swedish translation]
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #149
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #6 (2008)
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the second person to the shaman.
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