(January 1962)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.12 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
This issue has variants.
Distributed to newstands in November 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 Capitaine America (Editions Héritage, 1970 series) #5 ([Février 1971]) [original title: Escape to... Nowhere!]
The Genie with the Light Brown Hair!
comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-459
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Mike Morgan
- Synopsis:
- A man finds a genie and uses it to fulfill his selfish whims. The genie finally persuades him to let him return to his bottle, but tricks him into allowing himself to be trapped there too.
- Reprints:
- in L' Incroyable Hulk (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #8 ([Avril 1971])
Indexer Notes
Inker credit from Dick Ayers' record books per Nick Caputo (November 17, 2003); Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. The last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) also drawn by Kirby.
Tricky Travel
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- K-19
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Eli Twiddle; Mr. Hardy
- Synopsis:
- A travel agent has the ability to travel in his dreams, but eventually he grows out of it.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #48 (August 1956)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
Mind Over Matter!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-460
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Synopsis:
- A thief meets a lama in the foothills of the Himalayas and is amazed by the feats that he can accomplish with yoga. When he considers using the lama's powers of disappearance for crime the lama uses them to will him into non-existance.
- Reprints:
- in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #5 (Décembre 1970)
- in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1970 series) #5
Indexer Notes
This story is a retelling of "The Wrath of Chondu!" drawn by Doug Wildey in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #9 (May 1960). Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Follow the Leader
comic story / 7 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-458
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Paul Lindsey
- Synopsis:
- Space explorers are attacked by alien animals, and only make the situation worse by killing the largest beast, which was actually a robot holding the animals in check. They narrowly escape.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #27 (March 1974)
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #23 (none given)
- in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1970 series) #9
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Escape to...Nowhere!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-461
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror
- Characters:
- Joe Krane
- Synopsis:
- A convict in a prison hospital is set to return to death row when he is better so he doesn't want the doctor to dismiss him. A fellow prisoner across the room has a window view and the convict is pleasantly surprised to learn that there are no bars on the window. He resolves to make a break for it after nightfall, but when he slips out the window, he learns the reason there are no bars is that the hospital room is several stories above the ground.
Indexer Notes
The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
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