(June 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 March 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.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
-
in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #203 ([no date - circa 1978])
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The Return of Gargantus!
comic story / 13 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-171
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Characters:
- Gargantus (sea monster); Bill; Anne; Frank
- Synopsis:
- Another group of scientists disturbs Gargantus, who can now breathe air and vows to conquer the surface world. The son of the man who found Gargantus uses his father's bathysphere to lure it deep into the ocean and uses a giant electric shock to kill him.
- Keywords:
- monsters
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Gargantus" (7 pp). Gargantus last appeared in issue #80 (January 1961); he next appears in Marvel Monsters: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005).
New Glasses
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- K-368
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Herbert; Mr. Blooper
- Synopsis:
- A man insists on getting a specially made pair of glasses in a hurry, and finds that the optician has a magical corridor that leads back in time.
- Reprints:
-
from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #30 (October 1956)
-
- Reprint Note before Migration:
- from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #30 (October 1956)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
The Man Who Fell!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee ?
- Pencils:
- Paul Reinman
- Inks:
- Paul Reinman
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-173
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Hans; Katrina; Albert
- Synopsis:
- A town's mayor threatens to imprison a gypsy seer who spurned his advances if her prediction that he will be injured by a fall does not come true. He goes to the basement and has himself tied down to prevent this, but realizes that a chandelier above him is coming loose.
- Reprints:
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #25 (November 1973)
-
- Reprint Note before Migration:
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #25 (November 1973)
Indexer Notes
This story is retold in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #48 (December 1963) as "Kraddak" by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber. Stan Lee is tentatively credited as writer based on his authorship of the later story.
The Ape Man
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-172
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Salty Gruner; Ape Man
- Synopsis:
- A criminal hopes that the story of an ape man in the jungle around his prison will stop pursuit. Instead he finds that the ape man is real and a curse transforms him into an ape until he finds someone to take his place.
- Reprints:
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #24 (October 1973)
- in Giant-Size Werewolf (Marvel, 1974 series) #2 (October 1974)
-
- Reprint Note before Migration:
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #24 (October 1973)
- in Giant-Size Werewolf (Marvel, 1974 series) #2 (October 1974)
Indexer Notes
This story seems similar to "Gorilla Man" drawn by Robert Q. Sale in Men's Adventures (Marvel, 1950 series) #25 (March 1954).
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