(September 1961)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Vista Publications, Inc.
- Brand:
- MC
- 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 June 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.
Zzutak! (Table of Contents)
cover / 1 page (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Zzutak
Zzutak: The Thing That Shouldn't Exist!! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 13 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-299
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Frank Johnson (introduction); Yucoya-Tzin (introduction, not named); Zzutak (introduction, origin)
- Synopsis:
- An American comic book artist is forced by an Aztec priest to make a monster with magic paints. The artist creates another monster to fight the first, causing the temple to collapse on both monsters, giving the priest amnesia and ending the threat.
- Reprinted:
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #3 (March 1971)
- in Monster Masterworks (Marvel, 1989 series) #[nn] (1989)
- in Monster Menace (Marvel, 1993 series) #3 (February 1994)
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. Frank Johnson, Yucoya-Tzin and all next appear in Fantastic Four Unlimited (Marvel, 1993 series) #7 (September 1994). This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Zzutak" (7 pp). Steve Ditko writer credit removed based on information from the Atlas/Timely list.
Snowstorm (Table of Contents)
text story / 2 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- J-866
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Dawson; Mr. Manfredy
- Synopsis:
- A hiker lost in the snow meets a scientist who discovered how to transform other metals into gold but lives in isolation so his discovery will not cause turmoil.
- Reprinted:
- from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #47 (September 1956)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
The Lifeless Man! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-301
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Joey Clark
- Synopsis:
- A young boy prefers an old wooden toy soldier to more modern toys. His friends make fun of the toy, but when they are threatened by a bear the soldier seems to drive it off with its rifle.
- Reprinted:
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #3 (March, 1971)
Punishment! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-300
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Urru
- Synopsis:
- An advanced civilization sends a mugger to a prison planet. Only a few moments on this world full of war, crime and disease make him go straight in order to avoid ever again coming back to Earth.
- Reprinted:
- in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #7 (February 1967)
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