(February 1972)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.20 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- bi-monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Magazine Management Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- Marvel Comics Group
- Editing:
- Stan Lee
- Format:
- Color; Standard US; Saddle-stitched; Newsprint; was ongoing series
The Thing Called...It!
comic story / 13 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- [V-70]
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Heinrich Munch; Munch's animated construct [only called "It" in title]
- Synopsis:
- A bitter scientist builds a monster to destroy his rival, failing in every attempt to animate it until the swamp accidentally gives the construct life. The creature has a conscience and refuses to murder, so its creator uses lies to turn the local people against it. In trying to kill his creation, the scientist is killed himself and another accident transfers the creature's consciousness into the scientist's human body, freeing the creature to live a noble life.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #82 (March 1961)
Indexer Notes
This story is divided into two chapters: an untitled chapter 1 (6 pp) and chapter 2 — "It" Lives! (7 pp).
The Man from Mars!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- [V-161]
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror
- Characters:
- Joe Krunk; Luxurr
- Synopsis:
- A dishonest carnival owner hires an amnesiac to play a Martian and cheats him on his wages. When the man regains his memory, he realizes that he really is a Martian, sent to Earth to capture a human for the zoo, and so he takes the crook with him.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #68 (May 1961)
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the second person.
Terror of the Pterodactyl!
comic story / 7 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Steve Englehart (script); Al Hewitson (plot)
- Pencils:
- Syd Shores
- Inks:
- Syd Shores
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Synopsis:
- The skeleton of a giant pterodactyl is discovered and exhibited in a museum, where it comes to life and terrorizes the city.
Indexer Notes
Englehart's first comic script credit; see www.steveenglehart.com
Editing
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Ethan Hoddes
- Dwayne Best
- Tony R. Rose
- Chris Boyko
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Dwayne Best
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