(February 1962)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.12 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 November 1961 (November 9 according to Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website, November 14 according to Bob Bailey). This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #5 (November 1971)
I Am the Gorilla-Man!
cover / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Gorilla-Man [Franz Radzik]
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #5 (November 1971)
- in Gorilla Man (Marvel, 2010 series) #2 (October 2010) [cover]
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #3
I Am the... Gorilla-Man
comic story / 7 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee (plot) ;Larry Liebery (script)
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-488
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Gorilla-Man [Franz Radzik]
- Synopsis:
- An inventor transfers his mind into a gorilla to commit crimes, but the gorilla controlling his body turns against him.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #5 (November 1971)
- in Gorilla Man (Marvel, 2010 series) #2 (October 2010)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #3
Indexer Notes
Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.). Narrated in the first person. Gorilla-Man next appears in issue #30 (April 1962). This story is retold in issue #48 (October 1963) as "Grayson's Gorilla!" by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber.
The Green Hat
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- G-537
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Axtel; George; Chuck
- Synopsis:
- A recent graduate meets a strange man and finds that they share a gift to commune with the Green Goddess.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #32 (August 1955)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Sequence added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
Midnight on Haunted Hill
comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-489
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Billy Jones/Brown (last name inconsistent)
- Synopsis:
- A boy sees an alien landing, but no one believes him until the spaceship comes back, they didn't realize that a tree on a hill was really an alien being.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
Indexer Notes
Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.). The last page includes an advertisement for the Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Kirby.
The Scheme!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
- Pencils:
- Gene Colan
- Inks:
- Gene Colan
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-480
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror; period
- Characters:
- John Bentley; Anne Wentworth
- Synopsis:
- An insolvent cad marries a rich widow dying of a terminal sickness for her money, but finds when she dies that the disease is contagious and he has only months to live.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
Indexer Notes
Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.). In order for this story to make any sense, the disease would have to be sexually transmitted.
The Frightening Fog
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Synopsis:
- A mysterious fog envelops the entire world for days, terrifying everyone. It was actually created by benevolent alien peacekeepers to hide Earth from an invasion.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
Indexer Notes
Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.). This plot is simiilar to a plan used by the Watcher in Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #48 (March 1966), also written by Stan Lee.
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