(October 1960)
Marvel,
1959 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1960-05-31
- 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. The "!" disappears from the logo. All new stories are narrated in the first person unless otherwise specified. On-sale date from 1960 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
Gorgilla!
cover / 1 page
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed as
KIRBY) - Inks
- Dick Ayers (signed as Ayers)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look!! It isn't just a hole in the dirt!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Gorgilla
- Reprints
-
in Misterios del Gato Negro (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1953 series) #125 -
in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #9 (February 1971) which is reprinted - in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 ([March] 2008)
- in Monsters Unleashed Prelude (Marvel, 2017 series) (2017)
- in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (2017)
-
I Discovered Gorgilla! The Monster of Midnight Mountain!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Steve Ditko
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Ray Holloway
- Job Number
- T-873
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Gorgilla (introduction); Scotty; Anne; Frank
- Synopsis
- An expedition finds the missing link between apes and humans in Borneo. It is initially hostile, but defends its fellow primates from a dinosaur.
- Reprints
-
in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #25 (1962) - in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #9 (February 1971)
-
in Le Tombeau de Dracula (Editions Héritage, 1973 series) #4 -
in Vengeur (Arédit-Artima, 1972 series) #15 (3ème trimestre 1975) [N&B et remonté [B&W and reframed]] - in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #21 (March 1977) [with alterations; as a Doctor Druid story]
- in La Mujer Araña (Novedades, 1982 series) #8 (Mayo 13 de 1982)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 ([March] 2008)
- in Monsters Unleashed Prelude (Marvel, 2017 series) (2017)
- in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (2017)
-
Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Gorgilla next appears in issue #18 (April 1961). Story is pages 3-7, 10-11 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 7).
Lettering credit from Monsters (2017 series) No. 1.
The Sorcerer
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Maneely
- Inks
- Joe Maneely
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- H-203
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Tom Morton; Jack Morton; Ellen Morton; Johnny Morton
- Synopsis
- A man who has travelled the world and seen wonders performed by hermits in India returns home to find that his young nephew creates magic with only belief.
- Reprints
- from Strange Tales of the Unusual (Marvel, 1955 series) #1 (December 1955)
-
in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #109 - in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 ([March] 2008)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
My Nightmare Has No End!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Don Heck
- Inks
- Don Heck
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number
- [T-874]
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A man meets an extradimensional being in his nightmares. The being tells him that the world he comes from is a paradise, but boring, and offers to switch places. The man agrees, but the traveller wakes up to find that he entered the dreams of a prisoner.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #84
- in Das Monster von Frankenstein (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #28
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #13 (1964 ?)
- in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #4 (August 1966) [retitled]
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #4 (July 1971) which is reprinted
- in Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #19 (March 1976)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 ([March] 2008)
-
Indexer Notes
This story was reprinted as "I Am the Beast Man!" in Fantasy Masterpieces #4. This story was also retold in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #94 (March 1962) as "He Came from Nowhere!" by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber and George Tuska, but with the alien having the last laugh. 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).
Save Me! Save Me!
comic story / 5 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-875
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Albert Poole
- Synopsis
- A scientist makes himself able to walk on water in order to steal secret military plans from a ship. But when he returns to the shore he finds that he now sinks on land.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #13 (1964 ?)
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #3 (March 1971) which is reprinted
- in Das Monster von Frankenstein (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #26 (Februar 1976)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 ([March] 2008)
-
Indexer Notes
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).
A Monster Waits Outside!!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-876
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Maj. Ford
- Synopsis
- An astronaut is sent into orbit in a tiny sphere without communication. He sees a monster trying to claw its way in and panics, signalling ground control to bring him back. They think that it was a hallucination, but they find a broken claw on the spacecraft.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #84
- in Die Gruft von Graf Dracula (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #26
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #13 (1964 ?)
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #3 (March 1971) which is reprinted
- in L'Incroyable Hulk (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #61 ([août 1976]) [N&B [B&W]]
- in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #24 (September 1976)
-
in Fantomet (Semic, 1976 series) #25/1985 (uke 49 1985) - in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 ([March] 2008)
- in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the second person. This story was retold with some differences in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #24 (December 1961) as "The Insect Man" drawn by Jack Kirby. 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).
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Table of Contents
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0.
Gorgilla!
-
1.
I Discovered Gorgilla! The Monster of Midnight Mountain!
-
2.
The Sorcerer
-
3.
My Nightmare Has No End!
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4.
Save Me! Save Me!
-
5.
A Monster Waits Outside!!
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