(April 1961)
Marvel,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1961-01-31
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Atlas Magazines Inc.
- Printer
- Printed in the U.S.A. by The Eastern Color Printing Co., Waterbury 20, Conn.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements (pages 2, 9, 15, 19, 25, 27, 33-36 of comic including inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover); pages of comic not numbered. On-sale date from 1961 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
Gruto
cover / 1 page
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Gruto; Dan Mitchell; Laura
- Reprints
-
in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #11 (September 1971) [partially redrawn and relettered] - in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)
-
- Keywords
- monsters
![Cover Thumbnail for Journey into Mystery (1952 series) #67 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1144/w100/1144756.jpg?-1749739534950840506)
Gruto! The Creature from Nowhere!
comic story / 13 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed as
KIRBY) - Inks
- Dick Ayers (signed as Ayers)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek; Sam Rosen
- Job Number
- V-136
- Genre
- science fiction
- 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
-
in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #24 (1962), #24 (1962) - in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #58 (1965 ?)
-
in Hit Comics Der unglaubliche Halk (BSV - Williams, 1971 series) #211 (1971) -
in Etranges Aventures (Arédit-Artima, 1966 series) #21 (juillet 1971) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]] - in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #11 (September 1971)
- in Le Fils de Satan (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #17 (3ème trimestre 1980) [N&B et remonté [B&W and reframed]]
- in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (2017)
-
- Keywords
- monsters
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: part one Gruto! (6 pages) and Gruto! Part Two (7 pages). Simek letters in part one; Rosen in part two.
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 13).
The Party
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- J-959
- 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
- from Mystical Tales (Marvel, 1956 series) #2 (August 1956)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered)
The Black Clock!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Don Heck (signed as Don Heck)
- Inks
- Don Heck (signed as Don Heck)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number
- V-123
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- 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
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #11 (1963 ?)
- in Etranges Aventures (Arédit-Artima, 1966 series) #21 (juillet 1971) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #12 (November 1971)
- in L'Inattendu (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #25 (4ème trimestre 1980) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
-
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
The Last Voyage of Captain Kragg
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. DITKO)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. DITKO)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-121
- 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
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #6
-
in HIP Comics (Classics/Williams, 1966 series) #19121 (1969) - in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #121
- in Etranges Aventures (Arédit-Artima, 1966 series) #21 (juillet 1971) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #12 (November 1971)
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #160 ([circa 1976 - 1977]), #193 ([circa 1980 - 1981])
- in Namor (Arédit-Artima, 1979 series) #9 - La quête de Submariner (3ème trimestre 1980)
- in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Gruto
-
1.
Gruto! The Creature from Nowhere!
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2.
The Party
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3.
The Black Clock!
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4.
The Last Voyage of Captain Kragg
This issue was modified by, among others
- Bill Borre
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Matthew Head
- Ethan Hoddes
- machinal jocelyn
- Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
- Tom Vincent
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