(June 1963)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.12 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Vista Publications, Inc.
- Brand:
- Marvel Comics Group
- 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 March 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
-
in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #10 (10 Agosto 1971)
-
Imps From Pandora's Box!
Human Torch / cover / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Sorcerer [Dorian Murdstone]
- Reprints:
-
in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #11 (November 1967) [p. 11, panel 4 of Torch story] which is reprinted - in The Mighty Thor Omnibus (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 ([November] 2010)
- in Essential Human Torch (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (October 2003) [black & white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 [Regular Edition] ([September] 2006)
-
in Los 4 Fantásticos (Editora de Periódicos La Prensa S.C.L., 1962 series) #33
-
- Reprint Note before Migration:
- in Essential Human Torch (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003) [black & white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
The Sorcerer and Pandora's Box
Human Torch / comic story / 13 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee (plot), Robert Bernstein [as R. Berns] (script)
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Marty Epp
- Job Number:
- [X-183 ?]
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Sorcerer [Dorian Murdstone] (introduction); Thing [Ben Grimm] (cameo); Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards] (cameo); Invisible Girl [Sue Storm] (cameo); Pandora (flashback); Circe (flashback)
- Synopsis:
- The Human Torch fights a sorcerer that unleashes the evils imprisoned in Pandora’s Box for his own profit.
- Reprints:
- in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #11 (November 1967)
- in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #10 (10 Agosto 1971) [as "Lo Stregone e la scatola di Pandora", Italian translation]
- in Essential Human Torch (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (October 2003) [black & white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 [Regular Edition] ([September] 2006)
-
- Reprint Note before Migration:
- in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #11 (November 1967)
- in Essential Human Torch (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003) [black & white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
- in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #10 (August 10, 1971) [as "Lo Stregone e la scatola di Pandora", Italian translation]
Indexer Notes
The Sorcerer and his mansion in the country appears to be a tribute to Dr. Julian Karswell (Niall MacGinnis) from the film Night of the Demon (1957). A woman who used "Pandora's Box" to commit crimes turned up in the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon, "Here Comes Trubble". Colorist credit for Stan Goldberg removed due to lack of attribution. (18/03/2010)
The Comic
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- J-214
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Stan Wepp
- Synopsis:
- A bored television comedian is mysteriously transported back to the small mining town and small theatres that he loves.
- Reprints:
- from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #45 (May 1956)
-
- Reprint Note before Migration:
- from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #45 (May 1956)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
Earth is Off-Limits!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
- Job Number:
- X-185
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Synopsis:
- Space explorers discover life on a far off planet, but mission control panics at the thought of alien germs loose on Earth and so forbids them to return. The crew asks for chance to explain, but mission control breaks the communication as they cannot bear to listen to their pleas. What the space explorers were trying to say before their communication line was broken was that the life on the planet grants disease immunity and long life span.
Indexer Notes
Colourist credit for Stan Goldberg removed due to lack of attribution (18/03/2010). Letters credit by Barry Pearl.
Time Was...
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
- Pencils:
- Larry Lieber
- Inks:
- Sol Brodsky
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
- Job Number:
- X-184
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Eric Kane
- Synopsis:
- A scientist builds a time machine and travels to prehistoric times. When he kills an attacking caveman he unknowingly kills his own human ancestor, meaning that he becomes a neanderthal.
Indexer Notes
Colorist credit for Stan Goldberg removed due to lack of attribution. Inks and letters credits by Barry Pearl; originally listed Larry Lieber (inks).
Editing
Table of Contents
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0.
Imps From Pandora's Box!
Human Torch -
1.
The Sorcerer and Pandora's Box
Human Torch -
2.
The Comic
-
3.
Earth is Off-Limits!
-
4.
Time Was...
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