(October 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 August 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
Where Will You Be, When...The Spider Strikes
comic story / 7 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-344
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Prof. Robert Carter
- Synopsis:
- A physicist working at an atomic research lab in New Mexico goes into work one day with a spider in his pants cuff. The creature is bombarded by the atomic rays and grows to a huge size, gaining the power to think and speak, and then attacks the humans. The physicist tricks the spider into snagging a test missile in its web and when it climbs towards it, the missile detonates and kills the spider.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #8 (September 1971)
Indexer Notes
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
The Thread
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- A-786
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Matt Anderson; Midget Morgan/Count Morgan; Dr. Waynne
- Synopsis:
- The mysterious death of a scientist reveals a mystical device and leads to the death of a centuries-old Italian count.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #13 (October 1952)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. The events of this story are dated January 8, 1952.
What Lurks on Channel X?
comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-345
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Bill Jones; Ruth Jones; Mr. Cragley; Jordan
- Synopsis:
- A couple with a nasty landlord get a free TV set from a stranger. It is a device sent by aliens to enslave Earth by hypnotizing people through the sets in preparation for their landing force. The couple snap out of the hypnosis and the aliens from Pluto realize that their plan has failed and leave Earth. It turns out the landlord took down the antenna that the couple had set up to improve reception of the set, and the couple express their overwhelming gratitude to the puzzled landlord.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Capitaine America (Editions Héritage, 1970 series) #9 ([Octobre 1971])
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #5 (November 1971)
- in Monster Menace (Marvel, 1993 series) #1 (December 1993)
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Menace from Mars!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-346
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Synopsis:
- Martians come to Earth to discover if humans represent a threat to them. They question a human using a machine to verify his answers, and find that he is totally free of greed, hatred or deceit. The Martians leave satisfied, unaware that they questioned a mental patient.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #5 (November 1971)
Indexer Notes
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
One Look Means Doom!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-347
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Charles Grey; Sarah Grey; Medusa the Gorgon
- Synopsis:
- A couple moves to a cursed castle and the man discovers the imprisoned Medusa. When her powers do not affect him she thinks they have disappeared and accidentally turns herself to stone, not knowing the man is blind.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in L' Incroyable Hulk (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #5 ([Octobre 1970])
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #5 (November 1971)
Indexer Notes
This story has never been referenced in any other Marvel story using Medusa or the other figures of Greek mythology. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
All portions of the Grand Comics Database that are subject to copyright are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.