(August 1973)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.20 USD
- Pages:
- 40
- Indicia frequency:
- bi-monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand:
- Marvel Comics Group
- Editing:
- Roy Thomas ?
- Format:
- Color; Standard US; Saddle-stitched; Newsprint; was ongoing series
Issue Notes
Issue includes 4 page advertising insert for Mark Jewelers.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
- from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #84 (May 1961) [as "The Wonder of the Ages!!! Magnetor!"]
This Is...Magnetor!
cover / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby; John Romita (alterations)
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers; John Romita (alterations)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- Magnetor [Hunk Ranken]
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #84 (May 1961) [as "This is...Magnetor!"; original title "This Is...Magneto!"]
Indexer Notes
Alterations on Magnetor by John Romita, per Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors List, 7 January 2005.
The Wonder of the Ages!!! Magnetor!
comic story / 13 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Editing:
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number:
- V-150
Content Information
- Genre:
- monsters
- Characters:
- unnamed con man; Magnetor [Hunk Larken]
- Synopsis:
- A strong but dim man is exploited for profit by a con man and then abandoned, unable to find work except in a freak show. His unusual size is thought to make him the perfect passenger for an experimental space flight, but a strange cloud gives him magnetic powers. Angry at his previous humiliation, he attacks society and runs amok until a special rocket is created to allow him to leave Earth and find somewhere where he can fit in.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #84 (May 1961)
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. Magnetor was originally called Magneto.
Shangri-La
comic story / 3 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Bill Everett
- Inks:
- Bill Everett
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Editing:
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number:
- L-241
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Synopsis:
- A man makes it back from Shangri-La only to be informed that the man he spoke with, whom he takes to be mad, actually left for the valley four hundred years ago.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #55 (March 1957)
Indexer Notes
reprint credit from atlastales.com
They Met on Mars!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Editing:
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number:
- V-149
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Synopsis:
- Two unrecognizable beings land on Mars and fight. One of them destroys the other's ship and escapes, with the two never knowing that they were both human space travelers: one from the United States, one from the Soviet Union.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #84 (May 1961) [retouched into a SHIELD vs Hydra story]
Indexer Notes
Story has been altered to add references to S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra
Editing
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Ethan Hoddes
- Dwayne Best
- Nick Caputo
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Dwayne Best
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