(May 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 February 1961. 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.
This is...Magneto! (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:
- Magneto [Hunk Larken]
- Reprinted:
- in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #24 (August 1973) [as "This is...Magnetor!"]
The Wonder of the Ages!! Magneto! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 13 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-150
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Magneto [Hunk Larken]
- Synopsis:
- A strong man is exploited and abandoned, unable to find work except in a freak show. His size makes him the perfect pilot for an experimental space flight, on which he gains magnetic powers. He attacks society and runs amok until a rocket is created to take him into space and find somewhere where he can fit in.
- Reprinted:
- in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #24 (August 1973) [as "The Wonder of the Ages!!! Magnetor!"]
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Magneto!"(7 pp).
The Inventor (Table of Contents)
text story / 2 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- F-889
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Ned Carter; Mr. Jonas
- Synopsis:
- A disgruntled janitor's obsessive effort to create a sweeping robot costs him his job and ends in failure, but only because he sees no use for a perpetual motion machine.
- Reprinted:
- from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #32 (June 1955)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
Twelve Silent Men! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Paul Reinman (signed)
- Inks:
- Paul Reinman (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-151
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Victor Fabius; Sylvestor Weems
- Synopsis:
- A greedy lawyer steals a time machine in order to profit from knowledge from the future. Once there he is tried for stealing the machine and his lies are useless against the telepathic jury.
- Reprinted:
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #143
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the second person.
They Met on Mars! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-149
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Synopsis:
- Two beings in grotesque space suits fight on Mars. One of them destroys the other's ship and escapes, with the two never knowing that they were both humans: one from the US, one from the USSR.
- Reprinted:
- in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #24 (August 1973) [retouched into a SHIELD vs Hydra story]
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