(June 1961)
Marvel,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1961-04-06
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Atlas Magazines Inc.
- Brand
-
MC
- 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 the publication date reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Volume 15, Part 2, Number 1, Periodicals, January-June 1961. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B895314. Tied with Patsy Walker (Marvel, 1945 series) #95 (on sale date the same) as first use of MC brand, which is considered to be the first use of the company being called Marvel Comics in the 1960s.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
I Was Captured by Korilla!
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Korilla
- Reprints
-
in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #12 (July 1971) [relettered and with other alterations] which is reprinted -
in Creatures on the Loose (Yaffa / Page, 1975 ? series) #3, #1 ([1977] ?) - in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (2017)
-
- Keywords
- monsters
Indexer Notes
Cover inker credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors list, December 2008. Original indexer had not credited an inker.
I Was Captured by...Korilla!
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; Ray Holloway
- Job Number
- V-189
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Korilla
- Synopsis
- A cab driver uncovers an alien plotting an invasion of Earth. The police won’t believe him, but he foils the invasion on his own and the aliens are killed by their masters for their failure.
- Reprints
-
in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #60 - in Zombie (L. Miller & Son, 1961 series) #7 ([circa 1961])
- in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #25 (1962), #25 (1962)
- in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #12 (July 1971) which is reprinted
-
in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #43 (Décembre 1974) - in Creatures on the Loose (Yaffa / Page, 1975 ? series) #1 ([1977] ?)
-
in Etranges Aventures (Arédit-Artima, 1966 series) #21 (juillet 1971) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]] - in Namor (Arédit-Artima, 1979 series) #10 - Retour au néant (4ème trimestre 1980) [-1 page]
- 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: an untitled part 1 (6 pp) and part 2—"The Secret of...Korilla!" (7 pp). 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).
Tricky Travel
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- K-19
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Eli Twiddle; Mr. Hardy
- Synopsis
- A travel agent has the ability to travel in his dreams, but eventually he grows out of it.
- Reprints
- from Journey into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1950 series) #48 (August 1956)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
The Iron Giant!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Paul Reinman (signed as
Paul Reinman) - Inks
- Paul Reinman (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-190
- Genre
- horror-suspense; western-frontier
- Characters
- Ben Perkins; Wharton
- Synopsis
- A train conductor in the Old West, who loves his locomotive, is robbed by bandits and left in the wilderness to die, but the bandits are chased to justice by the suddenly-animated locomotive.
- Reprints
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #23
- in Etranges Aventures (Arédit-Artima, 1966 series) #21 (juillet 1971) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
- in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #164 (November 1972) which is reprinted
-
in Ranchserien (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1968 series) #6 [1974] ([juni] 1974) - in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #188 ([circa 1979 - 1980]) [original title: The Iron Giant!]
-
in Indexer Notes
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).
When Darkness Falls!!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-191
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- A man sees mannequins move during the business hours of the store, and stays until closing. When the mannequins step down from their positions he berates them for nearly being caught, since he was another living mannequin all along.
- Reprints
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #23
- 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) #13 (January 1972)
-
in Los Vengadores (Ediciones Vértice, 1974 series) #7 (Abril 1975) - in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #188 ([circa 1979 - 1980]) [original title: When Darkness Falls!!]
- 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
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0.
I Was Captured by Korilla!
-
1.
I Was Captured by...Korilla!
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2.
Tricky Travel
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3.
The Iron Giant!
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4.
When Darkness Falls!!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Bill Borre
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Matthew Head
- Ethan Hoddes
- machinal jocelyn
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
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