(February 1962)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.12 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 November 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
Some information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Timely/Atlas discussion list. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
The Wax People (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
Indexer Notes
Pencils credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (29 August 2006); the original indexer credited Steve Ditko.
When the Thing Runs Amok! (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-465
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Jason Burke; Clara Burke; X-13
- Synopsis:
- An inventor builds a robot, but others are afraid of it. The robot goes on a rampage and is dropped into the sea. It leaves a letter saying that it will emerge when humanity learns tolerance.
- Reprinted:
- in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #22 (April 1973) [p2–7, as "When the Monster Strikes!"]
Indexer Notes
Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
The Magician (Table of Contents)
text story / 2 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- G-719
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Howard; Uncle Bart
- Synopsis:
- A TV studio page and aspiring magician gets a lucky break when he meets a real sorcerer time traveling from the past.
- Reprinted:
- from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #34 (August 1955)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
Earth Will Be Lost Tonight! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 6 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot)
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Steve Miller; "Don Russell"; Nan Miller
- Synopsis:
- An agent signs a singer who is an instant hit. He discovers that the singer is an alien whose next record will help his people conquer Earth, and manufactures a scandal to ruin the alien’s career.
- Reprinted:
- in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #27 (November 1973)
Indexer Notes
The last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Kirby. Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
Mister Black (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot)
- Pencils:
- Gene Colan
- Inks:
- Gene Colan
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Miko Kyusha; Mr. Black
- Synopsis:
- A Japanese youth doesn’t want to fight in World War 2. A stranger named Mr. Black saves him, but only so he will be where he was fated to be in 1945, in Hiroshima as the bomb falls.
- Reprinted:
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #13 (April 1973)
Indexer Notes
This story is retold in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #33 (July 1962) as "The Voice of Fate!", drawn by Gene Colan.
Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.) Pencils/inks previously miscredited to Don Heck. Gene Colan added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
The Wax People! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-468
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Synopsis:
- The mannequins in a store come to life in a creepy atmosphere as it closes. However, this is not thought odd by anyone, because on this alien world all people are made of wax, and some work as mannequins, but leave with everyone else at closing.
- Reprinted:
- in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #22
- in Fantomet (Semic AS, 1976 series) #25/1987
Indexer Notes
The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.
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