The Ultimate Graphic Novels Collection - Classic
#1 - Marvel Origins: The 60s
(January 2014)
Hachette Partworks,
2014 Series
- Price
- 9.99 GBP; 19.95 AUD; 24.99 NZD
- Pages
- 216
- On-sale Date
- 2014-01-22
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Hachette Partworks Ltd.
- Brand
-
Hachette Partworks Ltd
- ISBN
-
978-1-909766-00-6
- Barcode
- 9772049086024 55
- Editing
- Sarah Gale (senior editor, Hachette Partworks); Ed Hammond (editor, Panini UK)
Issue Notes
Reprints Fantastic Four issue 1, Amazing Fantasy issue 15, Incredible Hulk issue 1, Daredevil issue 1, Tales of Suspense issue 39, Uncanny X-Men issue 1, Avengers issue 1, Avengers issue 4, Tales to Astonish issue 27, and Tales to Astonish issue 44.
This was the 55th volume released in The Ultimate Graphic Novels Collection.
This was the 55th volume released in The Ultimate Graphic Novels Collection.
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Characters
- Captain America [Steve Rogers]; The Hulk [Robert Bruce Banner]; Fantastic Four [Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; The Thing [Benjamin Grimm]]; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; The Angel [Warren Worthinton III]; Daredevil {Matt Murdock]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; The Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]
[no title indexed]
credits, title page / 3 pages
- Characters
- Captain America; Iron Man; Thor; Giant Man; The Wasp
Indexer Notes
Title page, indicia page and credits page.
Marvel Origins The 60s
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Script
- Marco M. Lupoi
- Letters
- typeset
[no title indexed]
Fantastic Four / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- George Klein
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek (cover lettering and logo design); Sol Brodsky (logo design)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Fantastic Four [the Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; the Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; the Thing [Ben Grimm]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]]; Monster from Monster Isle
- Reprints
-
from Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #1 (November 1961)
-
The Fantastic Four!
Fantastic Four / comic story / 13 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks
- George Klein; Sol Brodsky ?
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-372
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; the Thing [Ben Grimm]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]]; the Mayor of Central City
- Synopsis
- Dr. Reed Richards takes his friends on a rocket trip that changes their lives forever.
- Reprints
- from Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #1 (November 1961)
-
The Fantastic Four Meet the Mole Man!
Fantastic Four / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- George Klein; Sol Brodsky ?
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-372
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; the Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; the Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; the Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Mole Man; Monsters of Monster Isle
- Synopsis
- Atomic plants disappear all around the world. Reed Richards pinpoints a place which is at the same distance from them all: Monster Isle.
- Reprints
- from Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #1 (November 1961)
-
The Moleman's Secret!
Fantastic Four / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- George Klein; Sol Brodsky ?
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; the Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; the Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; the Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Mole Man [Moleman]; Monsters of Monster Isle
- Synopsis
- Having captured the Fantastic Four, Moleman recounts how he discovered his underground kingdom.
- Reprints
- from Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #1 (November 1961)
-
The Man in the Ant Hill!
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Henry Pym
- Reprints
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #27 (January 1962)
-
The Man in the Ant Hill!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Dick Ayers
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-430
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Henry Pym
- Synopsis
- Henry Pym invents a shrinking serum, but is trapped in an ant hill when he tests it. He is attacked by several ants, but one of them helps him escape and restore his ordinary size. He destroys the serum because it is too dangerous.
- Reprints
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #27 (January 1962)
-
[no title indexed]
Hulk / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Hulk; Bruce Banner; General Thunderbolt Ross; Betty Ross
- Reprints
- from The Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 [Regular Edition] (May 1962)
-
The Coming of the Hulk, Part 1
Hulk / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks
- Paul Reinman
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Ray Holloway; Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-709
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones; Betty Ross; Thunderbolt Ross; Igor
- Synopsis
- Scientist Bruce Banner saves a young boy from being killed by a nuclear blast but absorbs deadly amounts of gamma radiation which transforms him into a monster dubbed the Hulk. Bruce Banner is scientist by day, but transforms into the Hulk once the sun goes down.
- Reprints
- from The Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (May 1962)
-
[The Coming of the Hulk] Part 2: The Hulk Strikes!
Hulk / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks
- Paul Reinman
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Ray Holloway; Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-709
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones; Igor
- Reprints
- from The Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (May 1962)
-
[The Coming of the Hulk] Part 3: The Search for the Hulk
Hulk / comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks
- Paul Reinman
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones; Betty Ross; Thunderbolt Ross; Igor
- Reprints
- from The Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (May 1962)
-
[The Coming of the Hulk] Part 4: Enter...the Gargoyle!
Hulk / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks
- Paul Reinman
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones; Betty Ross; Thunderbolt Ross; Igor; Gargoyle [Yuri Topolov]
- Reprints
- from The Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (May 1962)
-
[The Coming of the Hulk] Part 5: The Hulk Triumphant!
Hulk / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks
- Paul Reinman
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-709
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Rick Jones; Betty Ross; Thunderbolt Ross; Igor; Gargoyle [Yuri Topolov]
- Reprints
- from The Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (May 1962)
-
Spider Man
Spider-Man / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; the Burglar
- Reprints
- from Amazing Fantasy (Marvel, 1962 series) #15 [Regular] (September 1962 (see Notes))
-
Spider-Man!
Spider-Man / comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-789
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Ben Parker; Crusher Hogan; Flash Thompson; Liz Allen; May Parker; the Burglar
- Synopsis
- Peter Parker is bitten by a radioactive spider and gains the abilities of a spider. When he fails to stop a burglar who runs past him his uncle his killed as a result. He therefore swears never to shirk his responsibility again.
- Reprints
- from Amazing Fantasy (Marvel, 1962 series) #15 (September 1962 (see Notes))
-
Iron Man!
Iron Man / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Iron Man [Tony Stark]
- Reprints
- from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #39 (March 1963)
-
Iron Man Is Born!
Iron Man / comic story / 13 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
- Pencils
- Don Heck
- Inks
- Don Heck
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- X-51
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Wong-Chu; Professor Yinsen
- Synopsis
- Playboy industrialist and weapons designer Tony Stark is injured in Vietnam and captured by communists. While pretending to build a weapon for his captors he builds a suit of battle armor to keep his injured heart beating and uses it to escape and beat the communist commander.
- Reprints
- from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #39 (March 1963)
-
The Creature From Kosmos!!
Ant-Man and the Wasp / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]; Creature from Kosmos [Pilai]
- Reprints
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #44 (June 1963)
-
The Creature from Kosmos!
Ant-Man and the Wasp / comic story / 18 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (plot); Ernie Hart (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Don Heck
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- X-192
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]; Creature from Kosmos [Pilai]; Maria Trovaya-Pym; Vernon Van Dyne; Lee Kearns
- Synopsis
- When a fellow scientist is killed by an alien being, Ant-Man enlists the help of the dead man's daughter. He gives her the ability to shrink and tiny wasp wings, and she joins him as his partner the Wasp. The duo use the alien's acidic nature to destroy it, saving the city.
- Reprints
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #44 (June 1963)
-
[no title indexed]
X-Men / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The X-Men [Professor X; The Angel; The Beast; Cyclops; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Iceman]; Magneto
- Reprints
- from The X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #1 (September 1963)
-
X-Men
X-Men / comic story / 23 pages
- Job Number
- X-401
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Beast [Henry McCoy]; Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Iceman [Bobby Drake]; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Professor X [Charles Xavier]]; Magneto
- Synopsis
- After a day of training and meeting Jean Grey, a new student at Professor X's school, the X-Men go one their first assignment--stopping a mutant named Magneto from talking over an Air Force base.
- Reprints
- from The X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #1 (September 1963)
-
[no title indexed]
The Avengers [superhero] / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Dick Ayers
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek (cover lettering and logo design); Sol Brodsky (logo design)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Avengers [Thor [Donald Blake]; Wasp; Ant-Man [Hank Pym]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]]; Loki
- Reprints
- from The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #1 [Regular] (September 1963)
-
The Coming of the Avengers!
The Avengers [superhero] / comic story / 22 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Avengers [Thor [Thor Odinson, Don Blake]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; The Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]; Hulk [Bruce Banner, Mechano]] (introduction, origin); circus ringmaster; lion tamer; trapeze artists; Bobby; Bobby's mother; Charlie; Captain; Jane Foster; Asgardians [Odin]; Teen Brigade [Rick Jones; William "Willie" Bishop]; Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]; The Human Torch [Johnny Storm]]; Loki [Loki Laufeyson]; Silent Ones
- Synopsis
- Iron Man, the Hulk, Ant-Man, the Wasp, and Thor join forces to defeat Loki.
- Reprints
- from The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #1 (September 1963)
-
Captain America Lives Again!
The Avengers [superhero] / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Thor; Giant-Man [Hank Pym]; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]]; Namor the Sub-Mariner
- Reprints
- from The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #4 [Regular Edition] (March 1964)
-
Captain America Joins... The Avengers!
The Avengers [superhero] / comic story / 23 pages
- Job Number
- X-587
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Thor; Giant-Man [Hank Pym]; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]]; Rick Jones; Teen Brigade; Namor the Sub-Mariner; Atlanteans; a D'Bari; Bucky Barnes (cameo flashback); Hulk [Bruce Banner]
- Synopsis
- Namor attacks a group of eskimos and throws their idol into the sea. When the ice melts, the figure trapped within turns out to be Captain America, in suspended animation since the end of World War II. The Avengers rescue Cap and return to New York. An alien figure turns our heroes to stone. When Cap and Rick Jones track him down, the alien agrees to restore the Avengers if they agree to help him recover his broken space ship in return. When doing so, the Avengers are attacked by Namor and his people. The restored spaceship ultimately drives off Namor and his men.
- Reprints
- from The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #4 (March 1964)
-
[no title indexed]
Daredevil [Marvel] / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; Fixer; Foggy Nelson; Karen Page; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic; Invisible Girl; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing]
- Reprints
- from Daredevil (Marvel, 1964 series) #1 (April 1964)
-
The Origin of Daredevil
Daredevil [Marvel] / comic story / 23 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Bill Everett
- Inks
- Bill Everett; Steve Ditko; Sol Brodsky
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen; Artie Simek (p. 1 only)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Daredevil [Matthew Michael Murdock]; "Battling" Jack Murdock; Franklin "Foggy" Nelson; Karen Page; Hank; "Dynamite" Davis; The Fixer; Slade; Porky; Sam
- Synopsis
- Matt Murdock saves a blind man from an oncoming truck but is struck blind himself by a radioactive canister during the rescue. The radioactivity heightens Matt's other senses and gives him an uncanny radar sense. Matt graduates college and begins practicing law with his college roommate Foggy. Matt's father, a boxer, is killed by the Fixer after he refuses to throw a fight. Matt designs a costume and a billy club (from his cane) and takes his derogatory childhood nickname "Daredevil." DD tracks down the Fixer and the man who shot his father.
- Reprints
- from Daredevil (Marvel, 1964 series) #1 (April 1964)
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Amazing Fantasy #15 Original Cover
Marvel History / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Spider-Man
- Reprints
- from The Official Marvel Index to the Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1985 series) #1 (April 1985) which is reprinted
- from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #137 (March 1982) [recolored]
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Indexer Notes
Steve Ditko's original unused cover to Amazing Fantasy # 15.
The Merry Marvel Marching Society
Marvel History / text article / 1 page
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
Brief article on the early Marvel fan club "The Merry Marvel Marching Society", including a reproduction of the membership certificate.
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Table of Contents
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1.
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2.
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3.
Marvel Origins The 60s
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4.
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Fantastic Four -
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The Fantastic Four!
Fantastic Four -
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The Fantastic Four Meet the Mole Man!
Fantastic Four -
7.
The Moleman's Secret!
Fantastic Four -
8.
The Man in the Ant Hill!
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9.
The Man in the Ant Hill!
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10.
[no title indexed]
Hulk -
11.
The Coming of the Hulk, Part 1
Hulk -
12.
[The Coming of the Hulk] Part 2: The Hulk Strikes!
Hulk -
13.
[The Coming of the Hulk] Part 3: The Search for the Hulk
Hulk -
14.
[The Coming of the Hulk] Part 4: Enter...the Gargoyle!
Hulk -
15.
[The Coming of the Hulk] Part 5: The Hulk Triumphant!
Hulk -
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Spider Man
Spider-Man -
17.
Spider-Man!
Spider-Man -
18.
Iron Man!
Iron Man -
19.
Iron Man Is Born!
Iron Man -
20.
The Creature From Kosmos!!
Ant-Man and the Wasp -
21.
The Creature from Kosmos!
Ant-Man and the Wasp -
22.
[no title indexed]
X-Men -
23.
X-Men
X-Men -
24.
[no title indexed]
The Avengers [superhero] -
25.
The Coming of the Avengers!
The Avengers [superhero] -
26.
Captain America Lives Again!
The Avengers [superhero] -
27.
Captain America Joins... The Avengers!
The Avengers [superhero] -
28.
[no title indexed]
Daredevil [Marvel] -
29.
The Origin of Daredevil
Daredevil [Marvel] -
30.
Amazing Fantasy #15 Original Cover
Marvel History -
31.
The Merry Marvel Marching Society
Marvel History -
32.
The Origins of Marvel Comics
Marvel History -
33.
Further Reading
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Marvel Origins The 60s
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