(March 1960)
Marvel,
1959 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1959-10-27
- 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 unless otherwise specified. 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 B810471.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
He Lives! He Moves! He's Monstro! The Menace from the Murky Depths!
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Monstro
- Reprints
- Keywords
- cephalopods; monsters
Indexer Notes
Cover inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 August 2006).
Monstro... the Menace from the Murky Depths!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Dick Ayers
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number
- T-566
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Without warning, as suddenly as a thunderclap, Monstro appeared on...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Monstro; Prof. Faraday; Igor
- Synopsis
- A giant octopus appears in the harbour of a communist seaport. An American marine biologist is sent to help, and finds that it is an ordinary octopus enlarged by communist nuclear tests, and will shrink back in 24 hours.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Inker credit and job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 3-8 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).
The Story of Sammy Snork!
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Bill Everett
- Inks
- Bill Everett
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-574
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The whole thing is so fantastic that even now I can't...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Sammy Snork
- Synopsis
- A criminal accidently boards a Martian flying saucer and ends up on display in a zoo.
- 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)
-
- Keywords
- Last National Bank & Trust Company
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 10-12 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 3).
I Am the Changing Man!
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-568
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Make no mistake about it!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Ozak; Les Page; Agent Craig
- Synopsis
- A shape-changing alien assumes the identity of trusted figures to sow panic. He is caught when he assumes the form of a dog he sees on a poster, not noticing that it is on a space flight for the next year.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Deth (planet)
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 13-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
The Recipe
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- K-338
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Josie was a tomboy.
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Josie; Miss White; Whiskers (cat); Josie's mother
- Synopsis
- A tomboyish girl tries out cooking to appease her mother, but accidentally cooks a witch's brew, totally inappropriate for a fairy like her.
- Reprints
- from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #150 (September 1956)
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #138 ([circa 1973 - 1974])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([October] 2006)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 20, 24 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
Illustration in this version of the text story is of a broomstick and pot.
The Runaway Planet!
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Doug Wildey
- Inks
- Doug Wildey
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- T-5??
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You're Ludwig Hauptmann and you teach at an American university...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Ludwig Hauptmann
- Synopsis
- A professor believes that a planet on a collision course will not destroy Earth because of the power that governs the universe. The planet is actually a spaceship come to greet the humans.
- Reprints
in 
in Indexer Notes
Narrated in the second person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 21-23 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 3).
It Walks by Night!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Don Heck
- Inks
- Don Heck
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-573
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The night was black and still as the strange figure stalked across the lonely moor!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Living Robot [John]
- Synopsis
- Robots are outlawed after a series of malfunctions. One man builds a robot in secret, he is found out and the robot destroyed but the man, a robot in disguise, escapes.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #60
- 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)
-
- Keywords
- robots
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the third person. Continues in the next issue. Robot's name from sequel. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 26, 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
He Lives! He Moves! He's Monstro! The Menace from the Murky Depths!
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1.
Monstro... the Menace from the Murky Depths!
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2.
The Story of Sammy Snork!
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3.
I Am the Changing Man!
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4.
The Recipe
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5.
The Runaway Planet!
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6.
It Walks by Night!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Chris Boyko
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Steve Dasinger
- Bill Devine
- Jay Flash
- Del Gruber
- Matthew Head
- Gary Henderson
- Ethan Hoddes
- machinal jocelyn
- Darrel McCann
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
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