(February 1959)
Marvel,
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
- Manvis Publications Inc.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
Distributed to newsstands in November 1958. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person unless otherwise specified.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
I Was a Prisoner on the Planet of Plunder!
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
Draw Lincoln
Art Instruction, Inc. / advertisement / 1 page
- Characters
- Abraham Lincoln
- Synopsis
- Draw Lincoln's head and win a scholarship.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover
I Was a Prisoner on the Planet of Plunder!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Don Heck (signed)
- Inks
- Don Heck (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-134
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Rick Dugan
- Synopsis
- An interstellar detective takes a cargo pilot's place to find out how ships are being robbed without anyone remembering anything. On an unarmed planet, the natives try to take his cargo and hypnotize him with sound waves, it doesn't work because the detective is deaf.
- Reprints
-
in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #30 - in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #59
-
in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #2 ([September] 1963) - in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #157 ([circa 1977 - 1978]), #192 ([circa 1983 - 1984])
-
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Strange Mission
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Maneely (illustration)
- Inks
- Joe Maneely (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- K-440
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Alfred Pook; Harold; Dr. Smith
- Synopsis
- A man becomes confused over directions to the dentist and as a result accidentally pilots an expedition to claim a new planet.
- Reprints
- from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #45 (September 1956)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
Get Rid of Ugly Pimples This New Easy Way!
Underwood Laboratories, Inc. / advertisement / 1 page
- Synopsis
- Ad for anti-acne Keraplex cream.
Indexer Notes
After first page of "Strange Mission"
I Was the Miracle Man
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- T-122
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Bruno Storme; Henry Stubbs
- Synopsis
- A brilliant but cruel businessman sets out to conquer an alien world. When he finds one he discovers that the inhabitants are far more mentally advanced then humans, possessing psychic powers. He is little more than an animal to them, and is displayed in a zoo.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #105
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #4 (1966?), #98 ([circa 1973 - 1974])
-
Indexer Notes
Penciler credit and job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Possible Stein inks per Jim Vadeboncouer and Nick Caputo.
Ger Apeldoorn suggests that the credits should be reversed, with Stein on pencils and Williamson on inks.
Boys! Girls! Ladies! Men! Given! Given!
Cloverine Brand Salve; Wilson Chemical Co. / advertisement / 1 page
- Synopsis
- Ad to recruit salespeople for Cloverine Brand Salve
I Saw the Day the World Ended!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- ?
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Prof. Grath; Gen. Kane; Craig; Mr. Kane
- Synopsis
- A machine seems to show the end of the world when the Sun burns out in the future. Panic and dispair spread until it is realized that the machine actually showed the creation of the sun in reverse.
- Reprints
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #30
- in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #59
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #157 ([circa 1977 - 1978]), #192 ([circa 1983 - 1984])
-
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Art credits from atlastales.com
Giant Movie Star Bargain!
DeLuxe Photo Service / advertisement / 0.5 page
- Characters
- Elvis Presley (photo); Tony Curtis (photo); Debbie Reynolds (photo); Pat Boone (photo)
- Synopsis
- Ad for photos, home addresses and birthdays of movie stars.
Indexer Notes
Between pages 3-4 of "I Saw the Day the World Ended!"
Capture the Spirit of the Winning of the West
The Golden Gun; Lytle Novelty Co. / advertisement / 0.5 page
- Synopsis
- Ad for replica of Colt .44 "Golden Gun"
Indexer Notes
Between pages 3-4 of "I Saw the Day the World Ended!"
The Little Lost Planet
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- T-103
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A tiny lost planet does good deeds on Earth until it is located by its mother planet and returned to its home galaxy.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the third person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Earn Money Saving Stamps & Coins
Hobbies Unlimited / advertisement / 0.5 page
- Synopsis
- Ad for stamp and coin albums.
Prices Smashed on New 1959 Accordions!
Accordion Manufactureres and Wholesalers Outlet / advertisement / 0.5 page
- Synopsis
- Send in coupon for free catalog of latest imported Italian accordions.
Cash in Quick on New Shoe Craze!
Mason Shoe Mfg. Co. / advertisement / 0.33 page
- Synopsis
- Ad to recruit salespeople to sell new Mason Kampus King shoes.
I Am the Scourge of Atlantis!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Inks
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Dick Ayers
- Job Number
- T-125
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Ogarth; Cnidos
- Synopsis
- The king of Atlantis is convinced that life still exists on the surface and leads an invasion fleet to make war on the world above. He finds that in the centuries since Atlantis sunk the pressures of the sea have made his people tiny as insects compared to surface humans, and they must return beneath the waves.
- Reprints
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #30
- in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #59
- in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #2 ([September] 1963)
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #157 ([circa 1977 - 1978]), #192 ([circa 1983 - 1984])
-
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
A Real Mobile Tank
Honor House Products Corp / advertisement / 0.5 page
- Synopsis
- Ad for 6 foot long U.S. Army tank for $4.98.
Develop Muscles of Steel!
Honor House Products Corp / advertisement / 0.5 page
- Synopsis
- Ad for "Power Gym" muscle builder.
Do You Want Spending Money?
Stephens Credit Sales / advertisement / 1 page
- Synopsis
- Ad to recruit sellers of patriotic and religious mottoes.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
I Was a Prisoner on the Planet of Plunder!
-
1.
Draw Lincoln
Art Instruction, Inc. -
2.
I Was a Prisoner on the Planet of Plunder!
-
3.
Strange Mission
-
4.
Get Rid of Ugly Pimples This New Easy Way!
Underwood Laboratories, Inc. -
5.
I Was the Miracle Man
-
6.
Boys! Girls! Ladies! Men! Given! Given!
Cloverine Brand Salve; Wilson Chemical Co. -
7.
I Saw the Day the World Ended!
-
8.
Giant Movie Star Bargain!
DeLuxe Photo Service -
9.
Capture the Spirit of the Winning of the West
The Golden Gun; Lytle Novelty Co. -
10.
The Little Lost Planet
-
11.
Earn Money Saving Stamps & Coins
Hobbies Unlimited -
12.
Prices Smashed on New 1959 Accordions!
Accordion Manufactureres and Wholesalers Outlet -
13.
Stamps
-
14.
Cash in Quick on New Shoe Craze!
Mason Shoe Mfg. Co. -
15.
I Am the Scourge of Atlantis!
-
16.
A Real Mobile Tank
Honor House Products Corp -
17.
Develop Muscles of Steel!
Honor House Products Corp -
18.
Do You Want Spending Money?
Stephens Credit Sales -
19.
Learn Radio-Television
National Radio Institute -
20.
Check the Kind of Body You Want:
Charles Atlas Dynamic Tension System
This issue was modified by, among others
- Bill Borre
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Matthew Head
- Gary Henderson
- Ethan Hoddes
- Michael Hoskin
- Steve Jenner
- Hunter Johnson
- Mike Nielsen
- Banks S. Robinson
- Douglas Sederberg
- Jim Van Dore
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