(July 1961)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Vista Publications, Inc.
- Brand:
- MC
- Editing:
- Stan Lee
- Format:
- 4 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.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
- in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #10 (March 1971)
- in L' Incroyable Hulk (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #17 ([Décembre 1972]) [original title: Trull the Inhuman]
It's Trull...the Inhuman!!
cover / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- Stan Goldbeg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Trull; Phil; Bart Hanson; Gloria
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
Trull! The Inhuman!
comic story / 13 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-192
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Trull; Phil; Bart Hanson; Gloria
- Synopsis:
- The mental essence of an alien bent on global conquest takes over a steam shovel and is defeated by an elephant.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #10 (March 1971)
- in L' Incroyable Hulk (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #17 ([Décembre 1972]) [part 1, as "Thrull! L'Inhumain!", French translation]
- in L' Incroyable Hulk (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #18 ([Janvier 1973]) [part 2, as "Thrull! L'Inhumain!", French translation]
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #3
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two untitled parts (7 pp, 6 pp). The story differs from others like it because the hero does not gladly win the affection of the previously shrewish female, but instead gives her the cold shoulder. Someone must have told Stan "It's about time."
Time Machine
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- G-85
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Synopsis:
- A man's fascination with history leads him to build a time machine and travel to the past, but when he sees the dangers of time travel he destroys the machine and blueprints.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #57 (March 1957) which is reprinted
- from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #35 (June 1955) [as "Time Machine"]
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Narrated in the first person.
The Silent Screen
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-193
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror
- Characters:
- Hulk
- Synopsis:
- An infinite loop story about a monster who repeatedly steps out of a movie screen.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
Indexer Notes
Story credited to Stan Lee in issue #26 (December 1961). Stan must have wondered about the appeal of this type of story because he specifically asks for reader comment at the end of it.
Open Wider, Please
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-194
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Synopsis:
- A dentist in 2030 discovers that his patient is a robot from Mars and calls the police. The Martian robot is stopped, and the dentist is relieved, since he wants nothing to stop the infiltration of Venusian robots like him.
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Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person.
Editing
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Ethan Hoddes
- Terry Jeffress
- Bill Borre
- Nick Caputo
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Bob Klein
- Martin O'Hearn
- Tony R. Rose
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