(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
- 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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Mummex King of the Mummies, Lives Again!!
cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Mummex walks again!!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Mummex [Raaka]
- Reprints
- Keywords
- monsters
in Indexer Notes
Steve Ditko cover inks added as per Nick Caputo via the Error Tracker (January 2009)
I Dared Defy the Floating Head!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Paul Reinman (signed)
- Inks
- Paul Reinman (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-562
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Bruce; Hank Rogers; Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr. (cameo)
- Synopsis
- A giant floating head appears over New York, claiming that it is the advance scout of an alien invasion, and ordering everyone to evacuate. People panic when the head destroys a warehouse to demonstrate its power, but a young boy reveals that the whole thing is a hoax by criminals hoping to loot the empty city.
- Reprints
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in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #24 (1962), #24 (1962) - in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (September 1970)
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in Acção e Mistério - Edição Especial (Palirex, 1977 ? series) #3 - Os Monstros ([1977]) [black & white] - 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 3-8 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).
I Live Again!
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-565
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Evil [only called "The Thing from Bald Mountain" in a caption]
- Synopsis
- The animated statue rises up from where it fell in the last story and decides to go to America so that it can conquer the world. When it arrives it hides in a building that is actually a rocket that is shot into space.
- Reprints
- in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #24 (1962)
- in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #3 (November 1970) [monster called 'Monster on Bald Mountain' instead; captions altered] which is reprinted
- in Monster Menace (Marvel, 1993 series) #3 (February 1994) [monster called 'Monster on Bald Mountain' instead; monster originally called "The Thing from Bald Mountain"]
- 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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in Indexer Notes
Story continued from last issue. Narrated in the third person. The creation of the creature recounted in this story is different from that in the last (it was made of clay, not stone). This doesn't seem to just be a script problem, since the monster also looks different.
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).
New Glasses
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- K-368
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Herbert; Mr. Blooper
- Synopsis
- A man insists on getting a specially made pair of glasses in a hurry, and finds that the optician has a magical corridor that leads back in time.
- Reprints
- from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #30 (October 1956)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([January] 2006)
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Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 16, 24 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
I–Am–The–Genie!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Steve Ditko
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number
- T-559
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Freddy
- Synopsis
- A criminal finds a genie and uses it to wreak havoc, but when he goes too far he takes the genie’s place in the bottle.
- Reprints
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in Le Monstre de Frankenstein (Editions Héritage, 1973 series) #3 - in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #4
- in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #29 (1965 ?)
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #1 (November 1970) which is reprinted
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in Fear (Yaffa / Page, 1970 ? series) #2 (1979) - in Adventure into Fear Omnibus (Marvel, 2020 series) (2020)
- in Doomsday (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #8 ([April 1973])
- 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
Story continues in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #9. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 17-18, 20-23 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).
Mummex---King of the Mummies!
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-563
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Mummex [Raaka]; Paul Fleming; Sara
- Synopsis
- An archaeologist finds a giant mummy in the Egyptian desert. It rises and searches the tombs and museums of the area, examining several mummies before returning into the desert. The scientist follows it and sees the mummy enter a spaceship and lift-off. It was actually an explorer looking for missing space pilots, who wear mummy-like bandages as protective suits.
- Reprints
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #4
- in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #29 (1965 ?)
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #1 (November 1970) which is reprinted
- in Aventure dans la Jungle (Editions Héritage, 1973 series) #3 (Mars 1973)
- in Fear (Yaffa / Page, 1970 ? series) #2 (1979)
- in Adventure into Fear Omnibus (Marvel, 2020 series) (2020)
- in Savage Tales (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #3 ([February 1973] ?)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([January] 2006)
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Indexer Notes
Narrated in the second person. 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).
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Table of Contents
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0.
Mummex King of the Mummies, Lives Again!!
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1.
I Dared Defy the Floating Head!
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2.
I Live Again!
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3.
New Glasses
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4.
I–Am–The–Genie!
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5.
Mummex---King of the Mummies!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Bill Borre
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Peter Croome
- Steve Dasinger
- Del Gruber
- Matthew Head
- Ethan Hoddes
- machinal jocelyn
- Darrel McCann
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
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