(July 1961)
- 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.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
This Is Manoo! The Thing That Hid on Earth!
cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I tell you I'm convinced that hostile life does exist on other planets!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Manoo; Jones
- Reprints
- Keywords
- monsters
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!
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
- Job Number
- V-186
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- ...and that is why I believe life on other planets is a distinct possibility!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- 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?
- Reprints
-
in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #91, #31 (1964 ?), #225 ([circa 1984 - 1985]) -
in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) ([August] 2007) - in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (2017)
-
- Keywords
- monsters
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).
Possible Lee plot/Lieber script per Nick Caputo. Larry Lieber is credited as sole writer in The Official Index To The Marvel Universe #14 (February 2010).
Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 13).
The Comic
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- J-214
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Stan Wepp stood before the lights, watched the teleprompter, the studio audience, the orchestra leader wearing the earphone headset.
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Stan Wepp
- Synopsis
- A bored television comedian is mysteriously transported back to the small mining town and small theatres that he loves.
- Reprints
- from Journey into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1950 series) #45 (May 1956)
- in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) ([August] 2007)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
The World Below!
Dr. Droom / comic story / 5 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
- Job Number
- V-187
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I looked everywhere I could, sir!
- Genre
- superhero; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Dr. Anthony Droom [later retroactively renamed Doctor Druid]; Ramu
- Synopsis
- Dr Droom defeats an attempt by Atlantis to conquer the surface world.
- Reprints
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #50
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #15
- in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #22 (May 1977) [as a Doctor Druid story; edited to make Dr. Droom into Dr. Druid] which is reprinted
-
in La Mujer Araña (Novedades, 1982 series) #17 (Julio 15, 1982) - in Marvel Universe by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2016 series) #2 (2018)
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #186 ([circa 1987 - 1988])
- in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) ([August] 2007)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Marvel Rarities (Marvel, 2014 series) #1 (2014)
- in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (2017)
-
- Keywords
- Atlantis
Indexer Notes
Data contributed by Joseph Marek via the GCD Main List (20 May 2003). Possible Lee plot/Lieber script per Nick Caputo. Martin O'Hearn credits Lieber as sole author(February 2013) and The Official Index To The Marvel Universe #14 (February 2010) credits Lee as author. Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
Rocky's Last Ride!
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-188
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The automatic car wash drive-in was a real money making business, there in Midville...
- 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.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #91, #31 (1964 ?)
- in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) ([August] 2007)
- in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)
-
- Keywords
- Midville
Indexer Notes
Data contributed by Joseph Marek via the GCD Main List (20 May 2003). Stan Lee writing credit per The Official Index To The Marvel Universe #14 (February 2010)and Martin O'Hearn (February 2013). Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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This Is Manoo! The Thing That Hid on Earth!
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1.
I Led the Strange Search for Manoo!
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2.
The Comic
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3.
The World Below!
Dr. Droom -
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Rocky's Last Ride!
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Ruben Cortes
- Del Gruber
- Matthew Head
- Ethan Hoddes
- Steve Jenner
- machinal jocelyn
- Hunter Johnson
- Edgar Loftin
- Mark Q
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
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