(November 1959)
Marvel,
1959 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1959-07-01
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Male Publishing Corp.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
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. All new stories are narrated in the first person. On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, July-December 1959, page 371, registration number B790630.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
in 
I Hear It Howl in the Swamp!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-3??
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The unknown swamp holds many secrets...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Charley
- Synopsis
- A fishing guide encounters an alien monster in the swamp, and after initial disbelief, the military plans to kill it. When two larger aliens arrive to take the thing away, they realize that it was only a lost child.
- Reprints
-
in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #17 -
in James Bond (Semic, 1965 series) #18/1972 ([11 januari] 1972) which is reprinted - in James Bond (Semic, 1965 series) #6/1982 ([17 augusti] 1982), #3/1994 ([14 september] 1994)
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #150 ([circa 1974 - 1975]), #184 ([circa 1979 - 1980])
-
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 3-7 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
Cover story.
Lady Luck
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- G-377
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Lester Ford; Marie Ford; Lady Luck
- Synopsis
- A businessman doesn’t believe in luck, but several beneficial encounters with an old lady change his mind.
- Reprints
- from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #136 (July 1955)
- 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 Was Captured by the Cyclops!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Don Heck
- Inks
- Don Heck
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number
- T-391
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It must have been only a hideous dream!
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Mr. Sloane; Sinbad
- Synopsis
- A man mentally transports himself to the past and becomes Sinbad, experiencing his encounter with the cyclops. He thinks that it was only a fantasy, but finds that he is still holding one of the cyclops' jewels.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #70, #17 (No Date [circa 1963])
- 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 10-14 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4, last page not numbered).
The Mutants and Me!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Joe Sinnott (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number
- T-395
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Henry Marsh; Vincent Farnsworth
- Synopsis
- A man ignores his friend's theories about super-powered mutant humans, but after teleporting himself out of a locked safe he reconsiders.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #17 (No Date [circa 1963]), #156 ([circa 1975 - 1976]), #190 ([circa 1979 - 1980])
- 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. "The Man in the Sky" by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series) #14 (July 1962) is often called 'the first mutant story' but this predates it by more than two years. Story is pages 16-18, 20 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
Who Hides Beneath My Mask?
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Inks
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Dick Ayers
- Job Number
- T-392
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- "Hard Luck" Harry; Mr. Craddock
- Synopsis
- A burglar wears a rubber mask to avoid identification, but after his victim sees him, he discovers that his face has changed to match his mask.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #17 (No Date [circa 1963])
- in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #28 (1965 ?)
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #244 ([circa 1988 - 1989])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([October] 2006)
-
Indexer Notes
This story is retold in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #11 (September 1960) as "I Wore...the Mask of Drothor!" drawn by Steve Ditko and in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #91 (December 1961) as "The Mask of Morgumm!" drawn by Don Heck. 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).
The Luna Lizards Had Me Trapped!
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- T-387
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- Human colonists on an alien world believe that they are being attacked by aliens, who, in fact, are trying to help them.
- Reprints
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #17
- in James Bond (Semic, 1965 series) #21/[1972] ([3 oktober] 1972) which is reprinted
- in James Bond (Semic, 1965 series) #5/1982 ([29 juni] 1982)
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #150 ([circa 1974 - 1975]), #184 ([circa 1979 - 1980])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([October] 2006)
- in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (2017)
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Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Possible Kirby script per Nick Caputo, September 2014. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
Editing
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Table of Contents
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0.
I Hear It Howl in the Swamp!
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1.
I Hear It Howl in the Swamp!
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2.
Lady Luck
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3.
I Was Captured by the Cyclops!
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4.
The Mutants and Me!
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5.
Who Hides Beneath My Mask?
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6.
The Luna Lizards Had Me Trapped!
This issue was modified by, among others
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Steve Dasinger
- Bill Devine
- Del Gruber
- Merlin Haas
- Matthew Head
- Gary Henderson
- Ethan Hoddes
- machinal jocelyn
- Darrel McCann
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
- Mike White
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