(October 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 July 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) #12 (7 Settembre 1971), #13 (21 Settembre 1971)
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Plantman!
The Human Torch / cover / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers ?; Don Heck ?
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Plantman [Sam Smithers]
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
-
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)
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Indexer Notes
Don Heck cover inks suggested by Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors list, December 2008. Original indexer had Dick Ayers firmly.
The Coming of the Plantman!
The Human Torch / comic story / 13 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee (plot); Jerry Siegel [as Joe Carter] (script)
- Pencils:
- Dick Ayers
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Sam Rosen
- Job Number:
- [X-398 ?]
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Plantman [Sam Smithers] (introduction, origin); Doris Evans (introduction); Mr. Evans (introduction)
- Synopsis:
- The Human Torch saves his new girlfriend Doris’s father from a disgruntled gardener who gains the ability to control plants.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #16 (September 1968)
- in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #12 (7 Settembre 1971) [pp 1–4, as "Arriva l'Uomo Pianta" part 1, Italian translation], #13 (21 Settembre 1971) [pp 5–13, as "Arriva l'Uomo Pianta" part 2, 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)
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Indexer Notes
Plantman's costume resembles that worn by The Shadow; he next appears, in a new costume, in issue #121 (June 1964). Doris Evans would continue as Johnny's semi-reluctant girlfriend until the end of his solo series. Colors credit for Stan Goldberg removed due to lack of attribution. (21/03/2010)
New Glasses
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- K-368
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Herbert; Mr. Blooper
- Synopsis:
- A man insists on getting a specially made pair of glasses in a hurry, and finds that the optician has a magical corridor that leads back in time.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #30 (October 1956)
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Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
The Search for Shanng!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
- Pencils:
- Larry Lieber
- Inks:
- Matt Fox
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
- Job Number:
- X-399
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Shanng
- Synopsis:
- An alien crash lands on Earth, and offers knowledge to in exchange for help. Greedy humans cannot find his ship, since he sensed their selfish thoughts and hid himself until humanity is ready.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
-
in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #202 ([no date - circa 1978])
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Indexer Notes
Colors credit for Stan Goldberg removed due to lack of attribution. (21/03/2010)
The Shoemaker's Strange Assistants!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- George Roussos (uncredited)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
- Job Number:
- [X-400 ?]
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Uncle Hugo; Harry Hook
- Synopsis:
- A shoemaker who enjoys telling the neighborhood children stories of the little people who come out at night to help him make shoes becomes ill and goes to a loan shark to acquire money for medical treatment. The loan shark harasses him constantly to make interest payments on his loan so he must work night and day. The last time the greedy money lender visits the shoemaker he gets the shock of his life as it turns out the little people are real. They shrink the man and put him to work building shoes for the shoemaker.
Indexer Notes
Inks: previously Steve Ditko; info by Bob Bailey, 2005-03-19. (Per Sandell ed.) Steve Ditko plot credit removed due to lack of attribution. (13/07/2010) Colors credit for Stan Goldberg removed due to lack of attribution.
Editing
Table of Contents
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0.
Plantman!
The Human Torch -
1.
The Coming of the Plantman!
The Human Torch -
2.
New Glasses
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3.
The Search for Shanng!
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4.
The Shoemaker's Strange Assistants!
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