(July 1961)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Atlas Magazines, Inc.
- Brand:
- MC
- Editing:
- Stan Lee
- Format:
- 4 Color; Standard Golden Age and Silver Age US Size; Newsprint; Saddle-Stitched; Was On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Distributed to newstands in May 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
- in Kull the Destroyer (Marvel, 1973 series) #12 (February 1974) [reformatted from 5 pages]
The Sandman Cometh!
cover / 1 page
Credits
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Sandman (alien); Steve Bronson; Anne Bronson
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
The Sandman Cometh!
comic story / 13 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-225
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Sandman (alien) Steve Bronson; Anne Bronson; Bobby Bronson
- Synopsis:
- A family stumbles across a hostile alien made of sand. The military are helpless, but it is defeated by the family’s bookish son, who uses water to dissolve it and traps it in a bucket.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #13 (October 1971)
- in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #23 (?)
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two untitled parts (6 pp, 7 pp). Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Bird Talk
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- K-424
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Tony Tipple; Skeets Mulligan; Toodles Murphy
- Synopsis:
- A meeting with a strange man gives a boy an unusual way of getting a pet bird, talking to birds.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #50 (October 1956)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
A Thousand Years
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Paul Reinman (signed)
- Inks:
- Paul Reinman (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-226
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Mr. Jordan; The Devil ?
- Synopsis:
- A convict is offered freedom and a thousand years of life by a mysterious stranger in return for his name on a contract. He signs, and finds himself freed, and sealed in a rocket flying away from Earth. He feels neither hunger or thirst, so he will live a thousand years alone.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #6 (October 1973)
- in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #23 (?)
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
The Stone Man
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-224
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Dralla/Drallas (both names are used)
- Synopsis:
- An old man prays statue of a local hero for help for the local poor. His prayers are answered, but his neighbours cheat him out of his share of the statue’s gift. The statue comes to life, punishes the villagers and takes the old man to heaven.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Kull the Destroyer (Marvel, 1973 series) #12 (February 1974) [pp1–2, p3: panels 2, 4–6, p4: panels 2, 4–5, p5, reformatted]
- in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #23 (?)
Indexer Notes
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Editing
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Ethan Hoddes
- Dwayne Best
- Tony R. Rose
- Bill Borre
- Nick Caputo
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Bob Heer
- Bob Klein
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
- Darrel McCann
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