(December 1958)
- 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
- Manvis Publications Inc.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
I Discovered the Secret of the Flying Saucers!
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
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in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #105 -
in Misterios del Gato Negro (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1953 series) #88 - in Race for the Moon (Thorpe & Porter, 1959 ? series) #5 (1959 ?)
- in Race for the Moon (Thorpe & Porter, 1962 ? series) #5 ([1962])
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in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (2017)
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Indexer Notes
Letterer credit of Art Simek supplied by Tom Orzechowski (3/6/05).
I Discovered the Secret of the Flying Saucers!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Christopher Rule
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-76
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A man discovers that flying saucers are real, but are not actually ships, but alien beings able to travel through space on their own. They are often forced to crashland on Earth because of local radiation, and leave as quickly as possible.
- Reprints
- in Race for the Moon (Thorpe & Porter, 1959 ? series) #5 (1959 ?)
- in Race for the Moon (Thorpe & Porter, 1962 ? series) #5 ([1962])
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #4 (1966?), #98 ([circa 1973 - 1974])
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #32 (November 1974)
- in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (2017)
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Indexer Notes
This story was first told in Men's Adventures #21 (May 1953) "The Secret of the Flying Saucer" drawn by Fred Kida and later retold in Tales of Suspense #11 (Sept 1960) as "I Know the Secret of the Flying Saucer!" drawn by Steve Ditko and in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #101 (October 1962) as "The Impossible Spaceship!" drawn by Don Heck.
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Letterer credit of Art Simek supplied by Tom Orzechowski (3/6/05).
I Captured the Abominable Snowman!
comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- T-81
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A man lies, cheats and steals to find the abominable snowman, and eventually discovers a lama who knows the secret of the snowman and is forced to summon it. He discovers that the snowman was a greedy man like him, cursed to wear a bestial form until another took his place. He is horrified as the snowman becomes human and he is transformed into a monster.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #105
- in Race for the Moon (Thorpe & Porter, 1959 ? series) #5 (1959 ?)
- in Race for the Moon (Thorpe & Porter, 1962 ? series) #5 ([1962])
- in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #2 ([September] 1963)
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #4 (1966?), #98 ([circa 1973 - 1974])
- in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #13 (October 1974)
- in Thrilling Science Fiction (AC, 1998 series) #2 (1999)
- in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)
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Indexer Notes
This story is retold in Strange Tales (Marvel 1951 series) #72 (December 1959) as "I Am the Abominable Snowman!" drawn by Paul Reinman, and in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #13 (November 1960) as "I Found the Abominable Snowman!" drawn by Jack Kirby. In each retelling there is a somewhat different mechanism by which the wicked protagonist becomes the snowman.
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Letterer credit of Art Simek supplied by Tom Orzechowski (3/6/05).
Detour to Mars
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Reed Crandall (illustration)
- Inks
- Reed Crandall (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- H-570
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Harry
- Synopsis
- A strange package is left at a man's door and it turns out to be the ship of an alien ambassador on his way to Mars. He helps the ambassador on his way, but then wakes up from the dream.
- Reprints
- from Strange Stories of Suspense (Marvel, 1955 series) #7 (February 1956) [as "Detour to Mars"]
- in Race for the Moon (Thorpe & Porter, 1959 ? series) #5 (1959 ?)
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Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Thanks to the Lewis Wayne Gallery and Terry Hooper for information on this story.
I Am Robot
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Duffy ?
- Job Number
- T-80
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Thorne
- Synopsis
- A man creates a robot so advanced that it has the capacity to think and feel as a human. He entrusts his son to it, but when the robot is damaged while defending the child from alien abductors, the scientist's suspicious wife is convinced that it malfunctioned, and he abandons the project.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Unknown pencils and inks per Nick Caputo, Atlas Tales and Timely-Atlas Facebook page. Previous indexer credited Joe Sinnott on inks and Tom Orzechowski credited Bob Powell on pencils.
I Am the Last Man on Earth!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Don Heck
- Inks
- Don Heck
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-77
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Adam; Eve
- Synopsis
- When the humans of a peaceful future discover a planet where they could live five times as long they all leave Earth, except for one couple who are too attached to Earth's heritage and are left on the abandoned world to refound civilization: Adam and Eve.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
This story is retold in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #90 (November 1961) as "A Thousand Years Later..." by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko and in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #39 (March 1963) as "The Last Rocket!" drawn by Gene Colan.
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Letterer credit of Art Simek supplied by Tom Orzechowski (3/6/05). Possible Lee plot/Lieber script per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Stan Lee as solo writer based of his signature on the later retelling.
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I Discovered the Secret of the Flying Saucers!
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I Discovered the Secret of the Flying Saucers!
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I Captured the Abominable Snowman!
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Detour to Mars
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I Am Robot
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I Am the Last Man on Earth!
- Dwayne Best
- Nick Caputo
- Matthew Head
- Ethan Hoddes
- Denys Howard
- Steve Jenner
- Hunter Johnson
- Dan Kocher
- Darrel McCann
- Mark Q
- Banks S. Robinson
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
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