(July 1960)
Marvel,
1959 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1960-02-29
- 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. On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, January-June 1960, page 148, registration number B830032.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
I Brought Cyclops Back to Life!!
cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's no use!!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cyclops [Polyphemus]; Duncan; Amanda
- Reprints
-
in El Enterrador (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1970 series) #6 -
in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #8 (1963 ?) -
in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #1 (January 1970) - in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #140 ([circa 1974 - 1975]), #228 ([circa 1986 - 1987])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([October] 2006), #1 ([October] 2006) [cover]
- in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (2017)
-
- Keywords
- cyclopses; ice; monsters; suspended animation
![Cover Thumbnail for Tales of Suspense (1959 series) #10 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/951/w100/951471.jpg?3954567799510234399)
I Brought the Mighty Cyclops Back to Life!
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-689
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It seems like only yesterday that the whole incredible thing happened!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cyclops [Polyphemus]; Duncan; Amanda
- Synopsis
- A young couple thaw out a cyclops in an iceberg, and must lure it into an icy pit to keep it from hurting anyone.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #8 (1963 ?)
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #1 (January 1970)
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #228 ([circa 1986 - 1987])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([October] 2006)
- in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (2017)
-
- Keywords
- Mediterranean Sea
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).
Out of the Jungle
text story / 1.8 pages
- Job Number
- A-1001
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The ice man was all apologies for bending the brass door knob.
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Anthony Jones; Johnny
- Synopsis
- A man runs into the descendant of gorillas that immigrated from the jungle to America.
- Reprints
- from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #4 (December 1952)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([October] 2006)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Narrated in the first person. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
The first page of this story is shared with the "Statement of Ownership."
[no title indexed]
statement of ownership / 0.2 page
- Script
- Martin Goodman
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Located on the first page of the "Out of the Jungle" story.
I Was Trapped in Nightmare Valley
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-694
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Fool!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Frank Savage; Maharaja of Banpur
- Synopsis
- An explorer encounters sentient, extraterrestrial trees in Asian mountains. They plan to spread their pollen all over the Earth, but they are fortuitously destroyed by a volcano.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #80, #7 (1963 ?)
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #4 (July 1970)
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #168 ([circa 1978 - 1979]), #206 ([circa 1983 - 1984]), #234 ([circa 1988 - 1989])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([October] 2006)
-
- Keywords
- Himalayas
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).
Behind My Door Waits...Medusa!
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
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It started the way it always starts!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Medusa
- Synopsis
- A curio shop owner tells customers that a strange statue is a burglar turned to stone by Medusa. No one believes him, but none dare open the door which he says leads to Medusa.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #7 (1963 ?)
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #4 (July 1970)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([October] 2006)
- in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4, last page not numbered).
I Am the Shaggy Creature
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-690
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm growing--my limbs are getting larger--I'm becoming hairy!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Victor Phillips; Gargantus
- Synopsis
- A scientist transforms himself into a gorilla to hide from the police, but his gorilla brain forgets how to use the antidote.
- Reprints
- in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #20 (1962)
- in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #59 (1965 ?)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([October] 2006)
-
- Keywords
- carnival; Wartville
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
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
I Brought Cyclops Back to Life!!
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1.
I Brought the Mighty Cyclops Back to Life!
-
2.
Out of the Jungle
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3.
[no title indexed]
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4.
I Was Trapped in Nightmare Valley
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5.
Behind My Door Waits...Medusa!
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6.
I Am the Shaggy Creature
This issue was modified by, among others
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Steve Dasinger
- Bill Devine
- Del Gruber
- Matthew Head
- Ethan Hoddes
- machinal jocelyn
- Darrel McCann
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
- Tom Vincent
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