(November 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.
Thing in the Black Box!!/Midnight at the Wax Museum!
cover / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters; science fiction
- Characters:
- Dan Harper; Bob Crane
Indexer Notes
Inking credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors list, December 2008. Original indexer had not credited an inker.
The Thing in the Black Box!
comic story / 7 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-377
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Dan Harper; Pandora
- Synopsis:
- A shipwrecked man meets the legendary Pandora, who tricks him into releasing the demons from her box. Humanity is helpless against the demons, but the man forces Pandora to recall them by dispelling her illusory beauty.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #30 (September 1974)
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. This story is retold in Chamber of Darkness (Marvel, 1969 series) #3 (February 1970) as "Something Lurks on Shadow Mountain" by Roy Thomas and John Buscema. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
The Remedy Oil
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Marie Severin
- Inks:
- Marie Severin
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- J-984
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Mrs. Gerrity; Tom Gerrity; Officer O'Malley; Logarithm
- Synopsis:
- An old-fashioned shopkeeper unwittingly saves the life of a boy from Mechanica when her remedy oil lubricates the gears in his brain.
- Reprints:
- from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #54 (April 1957) which is reprinted
- from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #37 (August 1956)
- from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #54 (April 1957)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustrations.
Midnight in the Wax Museum!
comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-378
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Bob Crane
- Synopsis:
- An artist falls asleep in a wax museum and after midnight he is awoken by a sound. When he investigates, he finds that the wax figures are really aliens who are observing humans. He flees and summons the police, who attack the aliens with tear gas. The entire wax museum begins to shudder and the whole building lifts off into space. They leave behind a book which states that their intent was to pass along beneficial knowledge, but the humans are too dangerous and perhaps they will return in a thousand years.
- Reprints:
- in L' Incroyable Hulk (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #10 ([Août 1971])
- in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1970 series) #7
Indexer Notes
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
The Mechanical Men!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-404
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Patrolman Patrick Smith; Z-4
- Synopsis:
- An alien plot to infiltrate Earth with robotic dolls is unwittingly foiled by a police officer trying to get rid of peddlers.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Capitaine America (Editions Héritage, 1970 series) #3 ([Octobre 1970])
- in X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #93 (June 1975)
Indexer Notes
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Lee credit noted by Stephane Petit via the GCD Errors list, February 2010.
Forever Is a Long Long Time!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-379
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Luther Kane; Dr. Jonathan Weems
- Synopsis:
- A greedy businessman bullies a scientist into giving him a device that can give humans the 1,000-year lifespan of a giant redwood. He ignores the scientist's warnings and uses the ray on himself alone in his mansion, finding to his horror that the ray also renders its subject as immobile as a redwood.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #18 (August 1975)
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #217 (?)
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. This story is a retelling of "I Can Live Forever!" drawn by John Forte, in issue #55 (November 1959). The original has a more sympathetic main character and a happy ending. Stan Lee is tentatively credited as writer on the basis of his plot credit for another version of this story in issue #103 (April 1964).
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