(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.
Plantman! (Table of Contents)
The Human Torch / cover / 1 page (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers ?; Don Heck ?
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Plantman [Sam Smithers]
- Reprinted:
- in Essential Human Torch (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003) [black & white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
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! (Table of Contents)
The Human Torch / comic story / 13 pages (report information)
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.
- Reprinted:
- in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #16 (September 1968)
- 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) #12 (September 7, 1971) [pp 1–4, as "Arriva l'Uomo Pianta" part 1, Italian translation]
- in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #13 (September 21, 1971) [pp 5–13, as "Arriva l'Uomo Pianta" part 2, Italian translation]
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 (Table of Contents)
text story / 2 pages (report information)
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.
- Reprinted:
- from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #30 (October 1956)
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
The Search for Shanng! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
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.
- Reprinted:
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #202 ([no date - circa 1978])
Indexer Notes
Colors credit for Stan Goldberg removed due to lack of attribution. (21/03/2010)
The Shoemaker's Strange Assistants! (Table of Contents)
comic story / 5 pages (report information)
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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1.
The Coming of the Plantman!
The Human Torch -
2.
New Glasses
-
3.
The Search for Shanng!
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4.
The Shoemaker's Strange Assistants!
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