(August 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 in May 1962. 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 Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
Mister Morgan's Monster
comic story / 7 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Philip Morgan; Mrs. Morgan
- Synopsis:
- Humanoid robots are banned, but their inventor keeps one in secret, and aliens try to turn it against humanity. It resists and they are forced to flee, but the robot’s inventor thinks that it disobeyed him by leaving hiding, not knowing that it saved humanity.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #11 (October 1967) which is reprinted
- in Capitaine America (Editions Héritage, 1970 series) #46 ([Juin 1975])
- in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #16 (April 1972)
- in Super Giant (K. G. Murray, 1973 series) #9 ([May 1974] ?)
- in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #10 (June 1975)
Indexer Notes
Set after 2090.
Music Master
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- G-804
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Joe; Gus; Angelo
- Synopsis:
- A struggling band takes on a poor but talented young harp player who turns out to be a young angel studying on Earth.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #39 (October 1955)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
The Day Before Doomsday!
comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- John Peterson; Premier Zorkon
- Synopsis:
- A US scientist defects to the USSR and builds a large dome to protect their leaders from retaliation, allowing a massive strike on the US. The dome is really a pod to launch them into space.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #21 (July 1976)
Indexer Notes
The last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series).
The Man In the Glass Cage!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror
- Characters:
- Joe Phelps; Anita Rogers; Bob
- Synopsis:
- A sound engineer tries to kill a girl who spurned him using sound waves. When they fail, he is confused, and, is killed by the waves which didn't affect the secretly hard-of-hearing girl.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #10 (June 1975)
A Switch in Time!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Karl Kargon
- Synopsis:
- In the year 2050 a prisoner reads about the invention of a time machine and so breaks jail to return to the past to rub out the one witness to his crime. However, as he attempts to assault the man, he realizes that he has been rendered intangible like a ghost so as to be unable to effect any change in the course of events.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #12 (October 1975) [miscredited to Journey Into Mystery #99]
Indexer Notes
The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series).
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