(July 1960)
Marvel,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1960-03-28
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Atlas Magazines Inc.
- Printer
- Printed in the U. S. A.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements (pages 2, 9, 15, 19, 25, 27, 33-36 of the comic, including the inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover); the pages are not numbered. All new stories are narrated in the first person unless otherwise specified. On-sale date from 1960 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
I Unleashed Shagg upon the World!
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Shagg
- Reprints
- Keywords
- monsters
in 
![Cover Thumbnail for Journey into Mystery (1952 series) #59 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1101/w100/1101186.jpg?-340960540626390665)
I Unleashed Shagg Upon the World!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed as
KIRBY) - Inks
- Dick Ayers (signed as Ayers)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-724
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Shagg
- Synopsis
- An explorer wakes the Sphinx, really a robot warrior called Shagg. Since it was awakened too early, it wipes the memories of his rampage and returns to hibernation. The only evidence left is the explorer’s journal.
- Reprints
-
in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #7 -
in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 ([September] 1962) - in Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #18 (January 1976)
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #S ([circa Summer 1977])
- in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (2017)
-
- Keywords
- monsters
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 3-7, 10-11 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 7).
The Green Man
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- A-189
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Barney
- Synopsis
- A former pilot can't get anyone to believe his story about the fatal radium poisoning he picked up from an alien, and so keeps spreading it.
- Reprints
- from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #2 (April 1952)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
I Was Trapped in Horror House!
comic story / 6 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-725
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Joe Kane; Charlie Jordon
- Synopsis
- A convict escapes from death row and hides in a haunted house in an amusement park. A mysterious figure leads him into hotter and hotter tunnels and he never emerges from the house.
- Reprints
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #3, #129 ([circa 1974 - 1975])
-
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 12-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).
The Revenge of the Wooden Woman
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-717
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Captain Cork
- Synopsis
- A sea captain's love for his wooden figurehead is repaid when it saves his life after an attack by pirates.
- Reprints
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #19
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #54
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #149 ([circa 1974 - 1975]), #186 ([circa 1979 - 1980])
- in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the third person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
I Am the Beast-Man!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Don Heck
- Inks
- Don Heck
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-733
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Igor Grozick
- Synopsis
- A Russian spy masquerades as a talking bear in order to embarrass the West when the hoax is revealed. He finds that the radiation which he pretended gave a bear the ability to speak actually transformed him into a bear.
- Reprints
- in Zombie (L. Miller & Son, 1961 series) #4 ([circa 1961])
- in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #23 (1962)
-
Indexer Notes
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
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
I Unleashed Shagg upon the World!
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1.
I Unleashed Shagg Upon the World!
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2.
The Green Man
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3.
I Was Trapped in Horror House!
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4.
The Revenge of the Wooden Woman
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5.
I Am the Beast-Man!
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- Dwayne Best
- Bill Borre
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Gregory Fischer
- Matthew Head
- Ethan Hoddes
- machinal jocelyn
- Hunter Johnson
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
- Tom Vincent
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