(March 1958)
Harvey,
1958 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Western Tales Inc.
- Brand
-
A Thrill Adventure
- Editing
- Leon Harvey (editor)
Issue Notes
[no title indexed]
Report from Space / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Scoop!... Report from Space
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
-
in Race for the Moon (Thorpe & Porter, 1959 ? series) #1 ([1959]) - in Race for the Moon (Thorpe & Porter, 1962 ? series) #1 ([1962]) [cover]
- in The Simon and Kirby Library (Titan, 2010 series) #[nn] - Science Fiction (March 2013)
-
in Race for the Moon (Canton Street Press, 2016 series) #1 - in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #619 - Race for the Moon ([April] 2017)
-
Indexer Notes
Kirby, Simon and Stein credits per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Mort Meskin on pencils and Al Williamson with inks.
[no title indexed]
Report from Space / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; science fiction
- Reprints
Asylum
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- For thousands of years, an advanced planet had committed horribly insane people to a far-distant planet. But this time a mission is turned back by the now highly-advanced civilization on this distant planet: the planet Earth!
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Synopsis info by Craig Delich (Nov. 2005).
First Man on the Moon
comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Ripoff of Fredric Brown story.
Supreme Penalty
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Chief scientist Frances; Judge Krenk
- Reprints
- from Black Cat Comics (Harvey, 1946 series) #47 (December 1953)
- in Race for the Moon (Thorpe & Porter, 1959 ? series) #1 ([1959])
- in Race for the Moon (Canton Street Press, 2016 series) #1
-
A Thrill a Minute!
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Simon; Bob Powell; ? (illustrations)
- Inks
- Joe Simon; Bob Powell; ? (illustrations)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
What's Up There?
Race for the Moon / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Simon ?; Jack Kirby ?; Bob Powell (illustrations)
- Inks
- Marvin Stein ?; Bob Powell ? (illustrations)
- Letters
- Joe Rosen
- Genre
- science fiction
Indexer Notes
House ad for Race for the Moon #1, featuring the cover (showing that alterations were made) and also reproducing part of the page one contents page.
Disc Jockey
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Sam Webb; Lou; three Martians
- Synopsis
- Sam Webb is a radio station owner and a very unpopular disc jockey who will not take himself off the air. He's so bad that Martians, out of frustration, arrive and forcibly remove him from his post.
- Reprints
The Invasion
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Bill; May; John Bronheit; General Pierce; alien conqueror
- Synopsis
- A couple watch a TV news broadcast chronicling an alien invasion and are terrified when Earth's military forces are quickly defeated. Fearing for their lives, they pack and literally run for the hills. They don't hear the news announcer then reveal that the invasion broadcast was an "original tele-screen drama entitled The Invasion From Mars!".
- Reprints
- from Witches Tales (Harvey, 1951 series) #21 (October 1953)
- in Race for the Moon (Thorpe & Porter, 1959 ? series) #1 ([1959])
- in Race for the Moon (Canton Street Press, 2016 series) #1
-
Indexer Notes
The story is obviously inspired by Orson Welles' famous War of the Worlds radio broadcast that stunned listeners on Halloween in 1938.
[no title indexed]
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Simon ? (illustrations)
- Inks
- Joe Simon ? (illustrations)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Rosen
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Preview: Look what's coming your way in this big issue
- Genre
- science fiction
Indexer Notes
Previews a page from the story "Forbidden Journey" appearing in Alarming Tales (Harvey, 1957 Series) #4 (March 1958).
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Scoop!... Report from Space"]
Report from Space -
1.
[no title indexed]
Report from Space -
2.
Asylum
-
3.
First Man on the Moon
-
4.
Supreme Penalty
-
5.
A Thrill a Minute!
-
6.
What's Up There?
Race for the Moon -
7.
Disc Jockey
-
8.
So You Want to Go to the Moon
-
9.
The Invasion
-
10.
["Preview: Look what's coming your way in this big issue"]
-
11.
Yogi Berra Homers In the 9th - Wins Big Game!
Yogi Berra; Cloverine Salve
This issue was modified by, among others
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Bruno Andreacchi
- Chris Boyko
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Denys Howard
- Clint Maxwell
- Jim Stangas
- Dan Stevenson
- Jim Van Dore
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