(January 1962)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly
- On-sale date:
- 1961-09-26
- Indicia Publisher:
- Atlas Magazines, Inc.
- Brand:
- MC
- Editing:
- Stan Lee
- Color:
- color
- Dimensions:
- standard Silver Age US
- Paper Stock:
- newsprint
- Binding:
- saddle-stitched
- Publishing Format:
- was ongoing 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.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
-
in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] ([August] 2007), #[nn] ([August] 2007), #[nn] ([August] 2007)
-
[no title indexed]
Amazing Adult Fantasy Contents / credits / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
The Coming of the Krills
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-435
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Lou
- Synopsis:
- The alien Krill offer the most beautiful woman in the universe to an earthman if he will betray his native planet but finds to his regret that beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] ([August] 2007)
-
Indexer Notes
This story is retold in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #47 (November 1963) as "Shock!" drawn by Larry Lieber and in Silver Surfer (Marvel, 1968 series) #2 (October 1968) as a Tales of the Watcher story by Stan Lee and Gene Colan. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Everyone Likes a...Ghost Story
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-437
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Anton Axel
- Synopsis:
- A swindler buys a castle with the intention of faking it as a haunted attraction, but then he meets a real ghost and dies of heart failure thus ends up legitimately haunting the castle.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] [Steve Ditko cover] ([August] 2007)
-
Indexer Notes
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
The Eyes of Edward Morgo
comic story / 3 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-439
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Edward Morgo
- Synopsis:
- A hypnotist replaces a movie theater's film real with a film of his performance intending to put the audience in a trance while he gets up and relieves them of their valuables. He's a better hypnotist than he thought as he succeeds in hypnotizing himself.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] ([August] 2007)
-
Indexer Notes
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. This story is a retelling of "Beware the Eyes of Igor!" drawn by Paul Reinman, from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #11 (September 1960).
The Yo-Yo
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-438
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Tom Bobkins; Tommy Bobkins, Jr.; Tommy Bobkins III; Mary Bobkins
- Synopsis:
- A child and his mother take a vacation in time visiting the spot where an ancestor lives. He mistakenly leaves his hi-tech toy yo-yo behind when he returns to the future and it is found and played with for a while by his father-to-be.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] ([August] 2007)
-
Indexer Notes
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
[no title indexed]
Coming Attractions / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-440
Content Information
- Synopsis:
- Advertises stories in next issue.
Indexer Notes
Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
A Monster Among Us
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-436
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Synopsis:
- An alien ambassador lands on Earth and, because of its monstrous appearance, is driven away. It drops a note written in English before fleeing welcoming Earth to the brotherhood of planets and offering to abolish war, disease and poverty as benefits of membership in the galactic order.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Marvel Tales Annual (Marvel, 1964 series) #2 (1965)
- in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] ([August] 2007)
-
Indexer Notes
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Coming of the Krills!
-
1.
[no title indexed]
Amazing Adult Fantasy Contents -
2.
The Coming of the Krills
-
3.
Everyone Likes a...Ghost Story
-
4.
The Eyes of Edward Morgo
-
5.
The Yo-Yo
-
6.
[no title indexed]
Coming Attractions -
7.
A Monster Among Us
- Patrick Lemaire
- Ethan Hoddes
- Bill Borre
- Nick Caputo
- Bob Klein
- Tony R. Rose
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