(April 1961)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly
- On-sale date:
- 1961-01
- 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 January 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
Gorgilla Strikes Again!
cover / 1 page
Credits
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Gorgilla
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Gorgilla Strikes Again!
comic story / 13 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-122
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Gorgilla; Scotty; Anne
- Synopsis:
- Gorgilla stows away on a ship to America to contact the human race, but is met with fear and violence in New York. He stumbles across some communist spies and stops an assassination, but is killed by the military out of fear.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #5 (March 1971)
- in Fantomet (Semic AS, 1976 series) #26/1987 (uke 51 1987) [original title: Gorgilla Strikes Again!]
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. Gorgilla last appeared in issue #12 (October 1960), and later appears in Marvel Universe (Marvel, 1998 series) and Defenders (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (March 2001).
The Stranger
text story / 1.75 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Joe Maneely
- Inks:
- Joe Maneely
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- G-76
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Synopsis:
- A painting of a Napoleonic victory parade is mysteriously linked to an eccentric inhabitant of modern Paris.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #39 (June 1955)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. The first page of this story is printed between the pages of the lead story, while the second page is printed between the two back-up stories. The last page is split with the statement of ownership.
Monsteroso
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Monsteroso
- Synopsis:
- A creature hatches from an egg and imagines itself lord of all it surveys, but it is suddenly drowned, as it is only a microbe in a scientist's culture.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #9 (June 1967)
- in Fantomet (Semic AS, 1976 series) #2/1988 (uke 3 1988) [original title: Monsteroso]
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2
Indexer Notes
This story is an altered retelling of "Earth Will Be Destroyed!" drawn by Steve Ditko in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #9 (May 1960). Stan Lee is given a speculative writing credit based on his authorship of another retelling of the same story.
Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 and June 11, 1960 (74 Stat. 208)
statement of ownership / 0.25 page
Credits
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
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Indexer Notes
Average circulation per issue October 1959–September 1960 (issues #8–16): 163,156. This shares the last page of "The Stranger".
Robot on the Rampage!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-111
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Synopsis:
- A robot stationed at a lighthouse rebels against his human master and the man manages to lock the robot outside where the food supply is stashed, but thanks to the salty sea air, it rusts completely within a mere matter of hours rendering it harmless to carry out its threats.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #196 ([no date - circa 1977])
- in Fantomet (Semic AS, 1976 series) #23/1985 (5. november 1985) [original title: Robot on the Rampage!]
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2
Indexer Notes
Formerly erroneously listed as a reprint from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #51.
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