(January 1960)
Marvel,
1959 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1959-09-01
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Zenith 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 from 1959 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
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in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2013 series) #1 ([September] 2013)
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I Spent Midnight with the Thing on Bald Mountain!
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Anton George; Evil [not actually called "the Thing on Bald Mountain" in the story]
- Reprints
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in Cuentos de Brujas (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1951 series) #123 -
in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #11 - in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (September 1970)
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #130 ([circa 1974 - 1975]), #165 ([circa 1978 - 1979]), #199 ([circa 1984 - 1985])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([January] 2006)
- in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (2017)
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Indexer Notes
The statue on the cover looks nothing like the one in the story it supposedly illustrates.
He Waits For Us in the Glacier!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Don Heck (signed as Don Heck)
- Inks
- Don Heck (signed as Don Heck)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You think you can destroy me with your puny weapons!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Anuxa
- Synopsis
- A nuclear submarine finds an alien hibernating in a glacier. He has been waiting thousands of years for humanity to wipe itself out so his race can claim the Earth, and now that nuclear weapons exist he thinks it won't be much longer.
- Reprints
- in Adventures into the Unknown (Arnold Book Company, 1950 ? series) #20
- in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 ([September] 1962)
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #17 (1964 ?)
- in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (September 1970) which is reprinted
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in Dæmonen (Williams, 1973 series) #2/1974 (1974) -
in Super Giant (K. G. Murray, 1973 series) #[nn] ([1973] ?) -
in Durfal Classics (Classics/Williams, 1972 series) #29 (1974) -
in Vengeur (Arédit-Artima, 1972 series) #13 (2ème trimestre 1975) [N&B et remonté [B&W and reframed]] - in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([January] 2006)
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Indexer Notes
Story is pages 3-7 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
The Money Tree
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- G-977
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- All was not as peaceful as it seemed in the Anderson household.
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Billy Anderson; Tom Anderson; Amy Anderson
- Synopsis
- A young boy's father scoffs when his son tries to grow a money tree, but the world is astonished when he succeeds.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
We Met in the Swamp!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Steve Ditko
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number
- T-473
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'll never forget how it happened!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Lem Whipple
- Synopsis
- A hermit claims to have helped a group of aliens in return for a chest of treasure. The chest is empty, but he realizes that air is precious to space travellers.
- Reprints
- in Adventures into the Unknown (Arnold Book Company, 1950 ? series) #20
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #27
- in All Star Adventure Comic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #5 (July 1960)
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #5 (September 1970)
- in Frankenstein (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #2 (3ème trimestre 1975) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #222 ([circa 1984 - 1985])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([January] 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. Story is pages 10-14 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
I Lived a Ghost Story!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Paul Reinman (signed as
Paul Reinman) - Inks
- Paul Reinman (signed as Paul Reinman)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-477
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You say you don't believe in ghosts?
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Mr. Howard; John Lang
- Synopsis
- A real estate agent tries to dissuade a man from buying a haunted house, but he insists on spending a night there. He is chased from the house by spirits and is scared off, which relieves the agent, since he is one of the ghosts, and wouldn't want to have to share their home.
- Reprints
- in Adventures into the Unknown (Arnold Book Company, 1950 ? series) #20
- in All Star Adventure Comic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #5 (July 1960)
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #17 (1964 ?)
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #5 (September 1970)
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in Helgenen (Romanforlaget, 1966 series) #2/1972 (uke 7 1972) - in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #142 ([circa 1974 - 1975])
- in Vengeur (Arédit-Artima, 1972 series) #13 (2ème trimestre 1975) [N&B et remonté [B&W and reframed]]
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([January] 2006)
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Indexer Notes
Story is pages 16-18, 20 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).
I Saw the Other World!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Dick Ayers (signed as
Dick Ayers) - Inks
- Dick Ayers (signed as Dick Ayers)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Dick Ayers
- Job Number
- T-478
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm still not sure how much of it was real, and how much was my imagination, but since...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A man tries to convince a stranger that the camera he found takes pictures of another dimension. The stranger seems skeptical, when a bolt of lightning strikes and the stranger disappears, along with the man's pictures. While the man thinks he imagined it all, the stranger returns to his own dimension, where he cannot convince anyone of Earth's existance.
- Reprints
- in Adventures into the Unknown (Arnold Book Company, 1950 ? series) #20
- in All Star Adventure Comic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #5 (July 1960)
- in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #1 (February 1966)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([January] 2006)
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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 of story numbered 2 to 4).
I Spent Midnight with the Thing on Bald Mountain!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. DITKO)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. DITKO)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-460
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I was at the peak of my success when I turned my back on it all and settled in an...
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Anton Gorge; Evil [never actually called "the Thing on Bald Mountain" in this story]; Good
- Synopsis
- A sculptor builds two statues, one representing good and the other, evil, but the evil statue comes to life and attacks him. The good statue saves him, and both of them fall into the swamp.
- Reprints
- in Adventures into the Unknown (Arnold Book Company, 1950 ? series) #20
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #11
- in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (September 1970) [as "I Spent Midnight with the Monster on Bald Mountain"]
- in Dracula (Arédit-Artima, 1974 series) #7 (3ème trimestre 1975) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
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in Acção e Mistério - Edição Especial (Palirex, 1977 ? series) #3 - Os Monstros ([1977]) [black & white] - in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #165 ([circa 1978 - 1979]), #199 ([circa 1984 - 1985])
- in Monster Menace (Marvel, 1993 series) #1 (December 1993)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([January] 2006)
- in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)
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Indexer Notes
Continues in the next issue. 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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Table of Contents
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0.
I Spent Midnight with the Thing on Bald Mountain!
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1.
He Waits For Us in the Glacier!
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2.
The Money Tree
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3.
We Met in the Swamp!
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4.
I Lived a Ghost Story!
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5.
I Saw the Other World!
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6.
I Spent Midnight with the Thing on Bald Mountain!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Bill Borre
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Steve Dasinger
- Del Gruber
- Matthew Head
- Ethan Hoddes
- machinal jocelyn
- Darrel McCann
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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