(March 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 on December 12, 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 Bob Bailey.
Pildorr, The Plunderer From Outer Space! (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
- Characters:
- Pildorr; John Brett
- Reprinted:
- In Marvel Visionaries: Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2004 series) #1
I Was a Decoy for Pildorr: The Plunderer from Outer Space! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 7 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot)
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Joe Sinnott
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- John Brett; Pildorr
- Synopsis:
- Earth sends a pilot to get an important cargo past attacking space pirates. He is caught and thrown into space, his cargo taken. The cargo is a cobalt bomb that destroys the pirates, and the pilot is a robot, so he survives.
- Reprinted:
- in Marvel Visionaries: Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2004 series) #1 (2004)
Indexer Notes
Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
The Treasure (Table of Contents)
text story / 2 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- [G-980]
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Tommy Miller; Mr. Miller; Mrs. Miller; Wish
- Synopsis:
- A sick boy takes comfort from a stray dog that grants wishes.
- Reprinted:
- from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #36 (October 1955)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
Save Me From the Weed! (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-524
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Lucius Farnsworth; George
- Synopsis:
- A man urges his unambitious gardener to go into business for himself, but his humble diligence saves the world when he snips a radioactive telepathic weed while it rests.
- Reprinted:
- in Giant-Size Man-Thing (Marvel, 1974 series) #3 (February 1975)
- in Monster Menace (Marvel, 1993 series) #2 (January 1994)
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.)
He Came from Nowhere! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ?
- Pencils:
- Joe Sinnott (signed)
- Inks:
- Joe Sinnott (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-525
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Joe Morgan; Groff
- Synopsis:
- A fugitive meets a man from the future who offers to switch places. When he arrives, however, he finds that the man was another criminal, a shape-shifting Uranian. The authorities imprison him, assuming his form is a disguise.
- Reprinted:
- in Supernatural Thrillers (Marvel, 1972 series) #7 (June 1974)
Indexer Notes
This story is a retelling of "My Nightmare Has No End!", drawn by Don Heck, from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #12 (October 1960). George Tuska inks changed to Joe Sinnott based on information from the Atlas/Timely list. Bob Bailey confirms Sinnott inks, 12 August 2005. Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.). Sinnott pencils credit based on signature on page 1.
Help! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-526
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Synopsis:
- A man gets a mysterious call for help but thinks it's a crank call and slams down the phone, breaking it. The caller is overjoyed, since it was a tiny alien spaceship trapped inside the phone receiver.
- Reprinted:
- in Kull the Destroyer (Marvel, 1973 series) #15 (August 1974)
- in Capitan America (Editoriale Corno, 1973 series) #91
- in Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko (Marvel, 2005 series) #[nn]
Indexer Notes
The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.
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