(June 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 March 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
The Haunted Roller Coaster! (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:
- occult
- Characters:
- Charlie Harris; Walter Burke
- Reprinted:
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)
Indexer Notes
Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 August 2006).
The Ghost Rode a Roller Coaster! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 7 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-659
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Charlie Harris; Walter Burke
- Synopsis:
- An amusement park owner hires an engineer to design frightening rides and works him to death. The engineer's ghost returns and takes the park owner on a deadly roller coaster ride.
- Reprinted:
- in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #19 (October 1972)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)
Trouble Bubble (Table of Contents)
text story / 2 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Joe Maneely
- Inks:
- Joe Maneely
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- K-160
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Jonathan Jr.; Nora; Jonathan Sr.; Mr. Bigger
- Synopsis:
- A boy discovers a formula to blow unbreakable bubbles and accidentally entraps his father's boss.
- Reprinted:
- from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #49 (September 1956)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
The Creature from Krangro (Table of Contents)
comic story / 6 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Creature from Krangro
- Synopsis:
- An alien commander is sent to Earth to prove his courage by capturing three humans, but he accidentally takes statues of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt.
- Reprinted:
- in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #19 (September 1972)
- in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #121 (December 2, 1975) [as "La creatura di Krangro", Italian translation]
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)
- in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #118 (date unknown)
The Man Who Couldn't Grow Old! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Ishmal
- Synopsis:
- An evil duke seeks the secret of eternal youth, and an old man in Egypt turns him into a mummy.
- Reprinted:
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)
Inside the Fallout Shelter! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-662
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror
- Characters:
- Mr. Clagg
- Synopsis:
- A selfish man builds a bomb shelter only for himself, but when a false alarm panics him he finds himself locked in for a month without a can opener to open his food.
- Reprinted:
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #88 (date unknown)
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