(November 1961)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly
- On-sale date:
- 1961-08
- 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 August 1961 (August 8 according to Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group, August 22 according to Bob Bailey). This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
The Creature in the Black Bog! (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:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- John; Martha
- Reprinted:
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)
I Entered the Dimension of Doom! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 7 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-356
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Synopsis:
- A teenager uncovers a plot of two-dimensional beings to invade Earth by posing as a construction crew to dig a hole in the street that acts as a passageway between dimensions and thwarts their designs.
- Reprinted:
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #200
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #9 (August 1972)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. Script and inks added by Bob Bailey, 2 September 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
The Wish (Table of Contents)
text story / 2 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ? (illustration)
- Inks:
- ? (illustration)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- G-672
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Tom Norton; Mr. Mason; Mr. Frank; Bobby Norton
- Synopsis:
- A real estate agent gains telepathy from a magic paper weight.
- Reprinted:
- from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #24 (October 1955)
Indexer Notes
Sequence added by Bob Bailey, 2 September 2005 (Per Sandell ed.). Text story with illustration.
The Creature from the Black Bog! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 6 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-357
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- John; Martha
- Synopsis:
- A retired couple exploring the Everglades comes upon an alien who has been mired in the bog after landing to affect repairs and was making his way back to the ship. In exchange for their help in securing enough vines to pull him free of the bog, he removes their memories of the incident and makes them younger.
- Reprinted:
- in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #19 (October 1972)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)
Indexer Notes
Script added by Bob Bailey, 2 September 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
Going Down! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
- Pencils:
- Paul Reinman
- Inks:
- Paul Reinman
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-358
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Simon Queel; Luther Zoroni
- Synopsis:
- A greedy elevator operator fakes an accident to get a rich customer to give him a big tip, but the elevator falls forever as the suddenly sinister passenger promises he’ll get his reward.
- Reprinted:
- in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #19 (September 1972)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)
Indexer Notes
Script added by Bob Bailey, 2 September 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
The Changeling (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- George Klein ?; Sol Brodsky ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-359
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- John; Alana
- Synopsis:
- A teenager in the future desires to return to Earth despite scientist's warning that over thousands of years humans are no longer adapted to life on Earth. When the boy steals a rocket ship and makes the faster than light journey back to the original homeworld, he finds that the scientists were indeed correct as his rocket ship is only about an inch tall to the Earthmen.
- Reprinted:
- in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #19 (October 1972)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)
- in Fantomet (Semic AS, 1976 series) #10/1987
Indexer Notes
Script and inks added by Bob Bailey, 2 September 2005 (Per Sandell ed.). This story is similar to "I Landed on the Forbidden Planet!" drawn by Steve Ditko in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #5 (September 1959). Nick Caputo credits inking to Sol Brodsky, 2 August 2011.
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