(January 1962)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Vista Publications, Inc.
- Brand:
- MC
- Editing:
- Stan Lee
- Format:
- Four Color; Standard Golden Age and 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.
Some information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
The Thing Waits for Me! (Table of Contents)
cover / 1 page (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Reprinted:
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #23 (September 1973) [as "The Monster Waits for Me!"]
The Thing Hunts for Me! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 7 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot)
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-453
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Synopsis:
- An old man in a boarding house tells a woman that is being hunted by a shape-shifting alien. He dies of a heart attack and the woman is relieved, since she is the alien and will not have to kill him.
- Reprinted:
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #23 (September 1973) [as "The Monster Hunts for Me!"]
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. The last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Kirby. Script added by Bob Bailey, 2 September 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
The Flying Saucer That Was (Table of Contents)
text story / 2 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- C-486
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- George Ridley; Monroe Marks; Dr. Willard Seldin; Harry Landau
- Synopsis:
- A teacher frantically tries to convince people that he saw aliens, but it turns out that they are friendly and make him their ambassador.
- Reprinted:
- from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #12 (June 1953)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
The Man Who Shrunk the World! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 6 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot)
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-454
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Roderick Kane
- Synopsis:
- A man from the future travels back to the 1960s to conquer the world with a shrinking gas. When he tests the gas on himself he becomes too small to release the antidote and shrinks to nothingness.
Indexer Notes
The last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Kirby. Script added by Bob Bailey, 2 September 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
Somewhere Sits a Lama (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot)
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-455
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Synopsis:
- A villager sneaks into a nearby monastery to find the secret of eternal life. He finds the secret, but in order to live forever he must stay motionless in one room until someone comes to take his place.
Indexer Notes
Script added by Bob Bailey, 2 September 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
Inside the Flying Saucer! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-456
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Synopsis:
- This story shows an audience watching a film of alien invasion. When the film ends, the audience leaves the theatre and looks up at the Earth from their home on Mars.
- Reprinted:
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #23 (September 1973)
Indexer Notes
The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.
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