(October 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 July 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
Inside the Blue Glass Bottle! (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:
- occult
- Characters:
- Elias Dane
Indexer Notes
Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 August 2006).
I Found the Girl in the Blue Glass Bottle! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 7 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-850
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Elias Dane
- Synopsis:
- A curio shop owner uses an ancient magic bottle to shrink people, but one of his victims turns the magic of the bottle on him and escapes, as the shop owner shrinks to nothing.
- Reprinted:
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #22 (July 1973)
Tricky Travel (Table of Contents)
text story / 2 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- K-18
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Eli Twiddle; Mr. Hardy
- Synopsis:
- A travel agent has the ability to travel in his dreams, but eventually he grows out of it.
- Reprinted:
- from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #48 (August 1956)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
The Forbidden World! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 6 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-851
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- John; Eric
- Synopsis:
- A space patrol find an alien world surrounded by a strange mist. They are fired on by the inhabitants and plan to retaliate, but realize too late that they were trying to keep them from the deadly mist surrounding the planet.
Indexer Notes
The last page advertises the Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (1962).
The Coming of the Giants! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- V-852
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Synopsis:
- The humanity of the near future grow proud as they approach space travel, but when alien giants arrive they are only saved from conquest because they are too tiny to notice.
- Reprinted:
- in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #23 (May 1973)
Who Am I? (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Death
- Synopsis:
- A man finds himself lost in a fog with no idea who he is. He is approached by a stranger who offers to help him through hypnosis. The hypnosis recovers his lost memory and he realizes that he was a circus performer who has died from a fall from the high wire. The stranger is revealed as Death who was delayed from their appointed meeting and is here to usher him into the next world.
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