(April 1961)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Atlas Magazines, Inc.
- Editing:
- Stan Lee
- Format:
- 4 Color; Standard Golden Age and Silver Age US Size; Newsprint; Saddle-Stitched; Was On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Distributed to newstands in January 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #11 (September 1971)
Gruto
cover / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Gruto; Dan Mitchell; Laura
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #11 (September 1971) [partially redrawn and relettered]
Gruto! The Creature from Nowhere!
comic story / 13 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Artie Simek ?
- Job Number:
- V-136
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Gruto; Dan Mitchell; Laura
- Synopsis:
- A journalist convinces the public that an amnesiac alien is a menace in order to make a better story. When the alien recovers, it says that it had come to share advanced technology with the humans, but it is disgusted by the journalist’s lies and the people’s violence and leaves.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #11 (September 1971)
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Gruto!" (7 pp). Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
The Party
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- J-959
Content Information
- Genre:
- humor
- Characters:
- Mr. Braggle
- Synopsis:
- A salesman trying to unload some oil stocks thinks that he’s found a rich mark, but instead walks into a party of talking dogs.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Mystical Tales (Marvel, 1956 series) #2 (August 1956)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
The Black Clock!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-123
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Mr. Jordan
- Synopsis:
- A criminal steals a strange clock from an old man, but finds that it is cursed. He cannot put it down without pain, but he ages rapidly as he holds it. He believes that returning the clock will cure him, leaving him to choose between rapid death, pain or jail.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #12 (November 1971)
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
The Last Voyage of Captain Kragg
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Artie Simek ?
- Job Number:
- V-121
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Captain Kragg; Kumbus
- Synopsis:
- A cowardly space pilot flees a battle until his spaceship runs out of power and he crashes into a bog on an Earth-like planet. He finds himself in a place similar to 15th-century Spain, complete with a sailor who is attempting to prove the planet round with a voyage around the globe. The space pilot thinks this is a sure bet to gain fame and fortune so he arranges to exchange places with the sailor and head out to sea. Unfortunately for him, the planet he has crash landed upon does indeed turn out to be flat.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #12 (November 1971)
Indexer Notes
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
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