(October 1956)
Marvel,
1950 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Western Fiction Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Atlas [black & white]
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Here Comes the Cyclops!
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Bill Everett (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Everett (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
The Fog!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Paul Reinman (signed)
- Inks
- Paul Reinman (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- K-365
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- A man is transported back in time, where he is considered insane. He returns to the present, pursued by his jailer, who is in turn thought to be mad.
- Reprints
-
in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #37 (1965 ?), #130 ([circa 1972 - 1973]) - in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #227 ([circa 1988 - 1989])
-
Indexer Notes
Features Bethlehem Royal Hospital ("Bedlam") in London, the world's oldest psychiatric hospital, and its Keeper.
I Entered the Forbidden Land!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Herb Familton (signed)
- Inks
- Herb Familton (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- K-285
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #37 (1965 ?)
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #121 ([circa 1972 - 1973])
-
Indexer Notes
Features the "legendary" Tibetan land of Shangi-La, which first appeared in Lost Horizon by James Hilton (London, 1933); perhaps what was meant was Shambhala, a legendary land in Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
When the City Trembled
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- K264
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #37 (1965 ?)
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #121 ([circa 1972 - 1973])
-
in America's Greatest Comics (AC, 2002 series) #6 (2003) - in Golden-Age Greats Spotlight (AC, 2003 series) #5 (2011)
-
Indexer Notes
Wessler credit from his record books, per Robin Snyder's the Comics,Vol 25, No. 8, August 2014.
Stranger Than Fiction!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Carl Wessler
- Pencils
- John Forte (signed)
- Inks
- John Forte (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- K305
- Genre
- crime
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #37 (1965 ?)
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #121 ([circa 1972 - 1973])
-
Indexer Notes
Wessler credit from his record books, per Robin Snyder's the Comics,Vol 25, No. 8, August 2014.
Bird Talk
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- K-424
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Tony Tipple; Skeets Mulligan; Toodles Murphy
- Synopsis
- A meeting with a strange man gives a boy an unusual way of getting a pet bird, talking to birds.
- Reprints
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #65
- in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #25
- in World of Fantasy (Marvel, 1956 series) #16 (February 1959) which is reprinted
- in Race for the Moon (Thorpe & Porter, 1959 ? series) #6 ([circa 1960])
- in Race for the Moon (Thorpe & Porter, 1962 ? series) #6 ([1963])
- in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #70 (July 1961)
- in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #33 (September 1962) which is reprinted
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #4 ([September] 2012)
- in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #40 (February 1963)
- in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #94 (July 1963)
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #133 ([circa 1972 - 1973]), #216 ([circa 1983 - 1984])
-
Indexer Notes
Art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group ([email protected]) April 2010.
Quarantine
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- K-309
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Roth credit per Nick Caputo, July 2013. Job number from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group ([email protected]) April 2010.
Cyclops
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- K-226
- Characters
- Niles Ulysses Barret
- Synopsis
- A WWII destroyer is torpedoed in the Mediterranean; one boatload of survivors, including Capt. Niles Ulysses Barret, come ashore on an island where they recapitulate the adventure of Odysseus and his crew with Polyphemus the Cyclops, as related in Book 9 of Homer's Odyssey.
- Reprints
- in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #40 (1963)
- in Monsters Unleashed (Marvel, 1973 series) #3 (November 1973) which is reprinted
-
in Indexer Notes
Job number and detailed synopsis from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group ([email protected]) April 2010.
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Table of Contents
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0.
Here Comes the Cyclops!
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1.
The Fog!
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2.
I Entered the Forbidden Land!
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3.
When the City Trembled
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4.
Stranger Than Fiction!
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5.
Bird Talk
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6.
Quarantine
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7.
Cyclops
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Bill Borre
- Nick Caputo
- Gregory Fischer
- Ethan Hoddes
- Donald Dale Milne
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Per Sandell
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
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