(July 1961)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Atlas Magazines, Inc.
- Editing:
- Stan Lee
- Format:
- Four Color; Standard Silver Age US; Newsprint; Saddle-Stitched; On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Distributed to newstands in April 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
This is Manoo! The Thing That Hid On Earth! (Table of Contents)
cover / 1 page (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Sol Brodsky
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Manoo; Jones
- Reprinted:
- in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn]
Indexer Notes
Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (11 March 2009); the original indexer credited Dick Ayers. The Official Index To The Marvel Universe #14 (February 2010) credits Dick Ayers as the cover inker.
I Led the Strange Search for Manoo! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 13 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Larry Lieber
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-186
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Manoo; Billy Jones; Mr. Miller
- Synopsis:
- A college student aids an alien policeman hunt down an alien criminal hiding on earth, or is it the other way around?
- Reprinted:
- in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn]
Indexer Notes
This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (7 pp) and part two—"The Secret of Manoo!" (6 pp). Data contributed by Joseph Marek via the GCD Main List (20 May 2003). Larry Leiber writing credit as per "The Official Index To The Marvel Universe" #14 (February 2010).
The Comic (Table of Contents)
text story / 2 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- J-214
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Stan Wepp
- Synopsis:
- A bored television comedian is mysteriously transported back to the small mining town and small theatres that he loves.
- Reprinted:
- from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel 1951 series) #45 (May 1956)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
The World Below! (Table of Contents)
Dr. Droom / comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-187
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Dr. Anthony Droom [later retroactively renamed Doctor Druid], Ramu
- Synopsis:
- Dr Droom defeats an attempt by Atlantis to conquer the surface world.
- Reprinted:
- in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #22 (January 1977) [as a Doctor Druid story]
- in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn]
Indexer Notes
Data contributed by Joseph Marek via the GCD Main List (20 May 2003). Stan Lee writing credit as per "The Official Index To The Marvel Universe" #14 (February 2010).
Rocky's Last Ride (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-188
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Rocky Baines
- Synopsis:
- Chisler Rocky gets a deal thats too good to be true, when a customer just "gives" him his car.
- Reprinted:
- in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn]
Indexer Notes
Data contributed by Joseph Marek via the GCD Main List (20 May 2003). Stan Lee writing credit as per "The Official Index To The Marvel Universe" #14 (February 2010).
Table of Contents
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1.
I Led the Strange Search for Manoo!
-
2.
The Comic
-
3.
The World Below!
Dr. Droom -
4.
Rocky's Last Ride
- Ethan Hoddes
- Steve Jenner
- Bob Klein
- Tony R. Rose
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