(December 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 September 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
Insect Man! (Table of Contents)
cover / 1 page (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- George Klein
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Mason
- Reprinted:
- in Marvel Mastwerworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)
Indexer Notes
Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 August 2006).
The Insect Man (Table of Contents)
comic story / 7 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-397
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Mason
- Synopsis:
- A soldier is placed underground in a capsule to test the effects of isolation. He is attacked by a telepathic insect. They blame the experience on stress, but a piece of the insect is on the pod.
- Reprinted:
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #19 (January 1973)
- in Marvel Mastwerworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)
Indexer Notes
This story is an altered retelling of "A Monster Waits Outside!!" drawn by Steve Ditko from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #12 (October 1960).
Mystery Pupil (Table of Contents)
text story / 2 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Joe Maneely
- Inks:
- Joe Maneely
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- K-382
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Colin; Mr. Plum; Gertrude
- Synopsis:
- A dull teacher earns accolades by accidentally helping capture a Martian criminal.
- Reprinted:
- from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #52 (October 1956)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
Beware...the Ticking Clocks! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 6 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
- Job Number:
- V-398
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- King Linus; Claudius Zemo; Klugari
- Synopsis:
- A king is beset by an assassin in the king's clockroom whereupon the assassin is magiked into yet another figurine upon the king's favorite timepiece.
- Reprinted:
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #19 (January 1973) [pp1–4, 6]
- in Doomsday (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #11
- in Marvel Mastwerworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)
Indexer Notes
Pencilling credit changed from Don Heck to Jack Kirby due to Error List email, confirmed by Kirby checklist at marvelmasterworks.com. Inker and letterer credit from index of reprint.
Something Lurks in the Fog! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-399
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Sam Farrow
- Synopsis:
- An unrepentant con-man is scared straight when he strays onto a forbidden road and enters a world between life and death.
- Reprinted:
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #19 (January 1973)
- in Doomsday (K. G. Murray, 1972 Series) #18
- in Marvel Mastwerworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)
Long Live The King! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-390
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- King Kim; Queen Sari; Prince Rujak
- Synopsis:
- A greedy prince marries a dowager queen. He tries to use her sleepwalking to cause her death, but the portrait of her husband calls out to warn her, and ghostly hands push the prince to his death.
- Reprinted:
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #19 (January 1973)
- in Marvel Mastwerworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)
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