(May 1962)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.12 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Atlas Magazines, Inc.
- Brand:
- MC
- Editing:
- Stan Lee
- Format:
- 4 Color; Standard Golden Age and Silver Age US Size; Newsprint; Saddle-Stitched; Was On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Distributed to newstands March 1, 1962 according to Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website and February 27, 1962 according to Bob Bailey. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
- in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #26 (October 1973)
- in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #99 (21 Gennaio 1975)
Won't You Step Into My Parlor?
cover / 1 page
Credits
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
Indexer Notes
Inks added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.). The cover art does not really depict any part of the story, there is no point when one of the two men is tiny and the other normal sized, neither of the characters on the cover resemble those in the story. Lee and Ditko are mentioned by name in a cover caption.
Won't You Step Into My Parlor...???
comic story / 7 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Luther Krumhausen; Darius Zamora
- Synopsis:
- Herr Krumhausen prepares a giant room to deceive business competitor only to really shrink himself.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #7 (October 1973)
- in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #99 (21 Gennaio 1975) [as "Non vuoi camminare nel mio salotto...???", Italian translation]
Indexer Notes
Title, Script and synopsis added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.). The third, fourth and sixth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series).
Strange Mission
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Joe Maneely
- Inks:
- Joe Maneey
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- K-440
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Alfred Pook; Harold; Dr. Smith
- Synopsis:
- A man becomes confused over directions to the dentist and as a result accidentally pilots an expedition to claim a new planet.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #45 (September 1956)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Sequence added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.)
Propaganda
comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Larry Lieber (plot, script); Stan Lee (plot)
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- [None]
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Boris Grozny; Ivan Grozny
- Synopsis:
- Low level communist worker Boris Grozny is given a chance to avoid Siberia if he can stir up turmoil in an African nation. All he stirs up is trouble for himself with the native gods.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #145 ([no date])
Indexer Notes
Script, inks, characters, synopsis added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.).
The second page includes an advertisement for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series); the last page includes an advertisement for the Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also drawn by Jack Kirby.
I Spent the Night in a Haunted House!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Larry Lieber ? (plot, script); Stan Lee ? (plot)
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Tom
- Synopsis:
- A young boy who has just moved to town is convinced to spend the night in a haunted house. He doesn't find any ghosts but the next day is realizes the house itself was the ghost.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #26 (October 1973)
Indexer Notes
Script, synopsis added by Bob Bailey. This story is retold as "I Speak of the Haunted House!" by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #42 (June 1963). (Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.)) The fourth page includes an advertisement for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series).
The kids are shown reading comic books: Journey into Mystery, Strange Tales, Tales to Astonish and Tales of Suspense and they mention them by name.
For the Birds!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Borgon
- Synopsis:
- Mr. Borgon is an unscrupulous hunter of rare animals in the future who finds himself trapped by his own deceit.
Indexer Notes
Script, synopsis by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.). The third page includes an advertisement for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series); the last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.
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