(April 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 January 1962 (January 9 according to Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website, January 16 according to Bob Bailey). This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
Back From the Dead!/The Dummy's Secret!/The Black Planet!/The Coming of Titan! (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:
- monsters; science fiction
- Characters:
- Captain of the Stone Men; Harry Dawes; Titan; Herman; Bruno Brugg
- Reprinted:
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)
Titan, the Amphibian from Atlantis! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 7 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot)
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Russ Heath
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-559
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- John Cartwright; Titan
- Synopsis:
- John Cartwright, an auto executive, pretends to betray the human race to the invaders from Atlantis.
- Reprinted:
- in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #7 (February 1967)
- in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #12 (October 1975)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)
Indexer Notes
Script and synopsis added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.)
Special Sale (Table of Contents)
text story / 2 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Joe Maneely
- Inks:
- Joe Maneely
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- J-932
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Marvin Kale; Paula Kale
- Synopsis:
- When a husband goes shopping he finds a new cleaning fluid that makes anything better than new, even him.
- Reprinted:
- from Strange Tales of the Unusual (Marvel, 1955 series) #5 (August 1956)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
Back From the Dead! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 6 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-560
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Harry Dawes; Captain of the Stone Men
- Synopsis:
- A fugitive hides on Easter Island and finds a scroll that awakens the stone heads. They turn out to be aliens, and take him with them as a zoo specimen.
- Reprinted:
- in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #11 (July 1974)
- in Incroyable Hulk, L' (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #43 (February 1975) [as "Revenu d'entre les morts!", French translation]
- in Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #16 (September 1975)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)
Indexer Notes
The last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Kirby. Script and synopsis added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.)
The Dummy (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
- Pencils:
- Paul Reinman (signed)
- Inks:
- Joe Sinnott (uncredited)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-561
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- The Great Gregory; Herman
- Synopsis:
- Ventriloquist the Great Gregory and his wooden puppet Herman are both wooden aliens from Uranus!
- Reprinted:
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)
Indexer Notes
Script and synopsis added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.)
The Secret of the Black Planet (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-562
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Bruno Brugg
- Synopsis:
- A man escapes from a prison planet only to mistake a native creature on another world for a rocket ship and ends up devoured.
- Reprinted:
- in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #4 (June 1974)
- in Incroyable Hulk, L' (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #35 (June 1974) [as "Le secret de la planète noire", French translation]
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)
Indexer Notes
The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko. Script added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.)
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