(January 1959)
Marvel,
1959 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1958-09-02
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Warwick Publications, Inc.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 12, Part 2, No. 2, Periodicals, July-December 1958, p. 368, registration number 736089. Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements (pages 2, 9, 15, 19, 25, 27, 33-36 of comic including inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover); pages of comic not numbered.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
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in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2014 series) #1 (2014) -
in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #221 ([circa 1984 - 1985])
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I Dared to Explore the Unknown Emptiness!
cover / 1 page
- Script
- Stan Lee ?
- Pencils
- Don Heck (signed)
- Inks
- Don Heck (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Back to the ship!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #27 (1964 ?), #159 ([circa 1975 - 1976]), #192 ([circa 1980 - 1981])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([October] 2006)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2014 series) #1 (2014) [Richard Isanove painted over the pencils of Don Heck.]
-
- Keywords
- extraterrestrials; spacesuits
Indexer Notes
Monster does not appear in the story within.
The Strangers from Space!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Al Williamson (signed)
- Inks
- Al Williamson (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-100
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In the year 2000, space had been conquered!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- General Krenkle; Lieutenant Morrow
- Synopsis
- In the future an alien ship arrives and lands at the world capital. The alien’s human form calms hostility and allows peaceful contact. The alien really projected an image to pacify bigotry.
- Reprints
-
in Conan (Condor, 1979 series) #4 - in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #27 (1964 ?), #159 ([circa 1975 - 1976])
-
in Conan de barbaar (Oberon, 1979 series) #4 (1980) - in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #192 ([circa 1980 - 1981])
- in America's Greatest Comics (AC, 2002 series) #8 (2004)
- in Al Williamson: Hidden Lands (Dark Horse, 2004 series) (October 2004)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([October] 2006)
-
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 3-7 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
The Newshound
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Maneely
- Inks
- Joe Maneely
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- K-241
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Snoop Scooper; Marsha Marlow
- Synopsis
- A reporter with an uncanny nose and a woman with keen hearing and become the blueprints for a new breed of journalists.
- Reprints
- from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #50 (September 1956)
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #27 (1964 ?)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([October] 2006)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
I Dared Explore the Unknown Emptiness!
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- T-95
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The year was 2478... Dr. Jonathan Marteens had just made public his...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Dr. Jonathan Marteens (behind the scenes); Col. Frank Stevens
- Synopsis
- In the 25th-century, humans use a new cobalt fuel in their search for a colony world to relieve overpopulation. They find that humans can only flourish on Earth, and should appreciate it more.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #82, #27 (1964 ?), #159 ([circa 1975 - 1976])
- in Star Wars Weekly (Marvel UK, 1978 series) #96 (26 December 1979)
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #192 ([circa 1980 - 1981])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([October] 2006)
-
- Keywords
- Automata (planet); Mundus (planet); Plethorus (planet)
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 10-14 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
The Day I Left My Body!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- M-567
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The law had called me a menace to society and locked me away forever!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Wells; Martin Shaw; Ellen Shaw
- Synopsis
- A prisoner accidentally gains a psychic hold on a lawyer. He forces the lawyer to work constantly on his appeal, but fatigue hurts the lawyer’s oratory and the murderer is sentenced to death.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #82, #27 (1964 ?), #159 ([circa 1975 - 1976]), #192 ([circa 1980 - 1981])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([October] 2006)
-
Indexer Notes
Oleck script per Martin O'Hearn: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2019/08/jack-oleck-stories-in-three-atlas…
Narrated in the first person. Story is pages 16-18, 20 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).
He Fled in the Night
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- T-96
- Genre
- historical
- Characters
- Robinson Crusoe
- Synopsis
- A restless clerk leaves England for a life at sea, thinking that he will found an empire in the Pacific. Robinson Crusoe, the clerk, is sure his voyage will make his fortune.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #27 (1964 ?)
- in Kull, the Destroyer (Marvel, 1973 series) #13 (April 1974)
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #192 ([circa 1980 - 1981])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([October] 2006)
-
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 21-24 of comic (first page of story not numbered, then pages numbered 2 to 4).
Prisoner of the Satellites!
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- T-107
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It all began suddenly--the shower of yellow green meteors hurtling towards Earth!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Mark Coren; Zak; Ozt
- Synopsis
- Aliens launch satellites that shrink objects on Earth in preparation for an invasion, but the humans harness the power of cosmic rays to reverse the effects and the aliens abandon the plan.
- Reprints
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #27, #222 ([circa 1984 - 1985])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([October] 2006)
- in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
I Dared to Explore the Unknown Emptiness!
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1.
The Strangers from Space!
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2.
The Newshound
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3.
I Dared Explore the Unknown Emptiness!
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4.
The Day I Left My Body!
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5.
He Fled in the Night
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6.
Prisoner of the Satellites!
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