(November 1960)
Marvel,
1959 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1960-06-27
- 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. On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, July-December 1960, page 345, registration number B849997.
Gor-Kill, the Living Demon
cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It is Gor-Kill!!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Gor-Kill
- Reprints
-
in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #28 (1964 ?), #195 ([circa 1980 - 1981]) -
in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 ([June] 2008) - in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (2017)
-
- Keywords
- monsters
Indexer Notes
George Klein ink credit per Nick Caputo and Atlas Tales. Previous indexer credited Dick Ayers.
I Alone Know the Dread Secret of Gor-Kill, the Living Demon!
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-849
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It is the demon--Gor-Kill!!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Gor-Kill; Hans Grubnik
- Synopsis
- A gaseous alien comes down to Earth and inhabits a dam of water to harass local villagers. The village loafer realizes that the alien is using the water in the dam to embody itself and steals dynamite in order blow up the pass before the alien can reach the sea. The loafer succeeds, but is imprisoned for stealing the dynamite.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #28 (1964 ?)
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #1 (January 1970)
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #195 ([circa 1980 - 1981])
-
in Frankenstein (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #15 (1er trimestre 1980) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]] - in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 ([June] 2008)
- in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (2017)
-
- Keywords
- Krakow Dam
Indexer Notes
Story is pages 3-7, 10-11 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 7).
Vial of Inspiration
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Maneely
- Inks
- Joe Maneely
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- J-628
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It happened when Gus Harris was an apple-cheeked youngster with...
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Gus Harris; Mr. Peters; Mrs. Peters
- Synopsis
- A boy without a family is given a vial filled with music, but squanders the inspiration of it.
- Reprints
- from World of Fantasy (Marvel, 1956 series) #6 (March 1957) which is reprinted
- from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #47 (June 1956) [retitled]
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 ([June] 2008)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustrations. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
Those Who Lurk Below!
comic story / 6 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-853
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It is a small foreign island in the ocean, during the last century!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Pierre; Kragok
- Synopsis
- A sadistic jailer buys a book detailing an alien civilization that has retreated below the Earth in order to avoid surface climate change in order to torment his prisoner with false hope of escape. The prisoner finds the book and believes the story and later he finds a working digger to bring him down to the aliens below who welcome him. The astonished jailer spends the rest of his life unsuccessfully attempting to locate another working digger.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #28 (1964 ?)
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #26 ([1965])
- in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #2 (April 1966)
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #90 ([circa 1972 - 1973])
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #195 ([circa 1980 - 1981])
- in Namor (Arédit-Artima, 1979 series) #7 - Le combat de Submariner (1er trimestre 1980)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 ([June] 2008)
- in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)
-
- Keywords
- earth digger
Indexer Notes
Story is pages 12-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).
The Monster in My Cellar!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Reed Crandall
- Inks
- Reed Crandall
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-854
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There's something down here...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- un-named science fiction writer; the writer's un-named editor
- Synopsis
- Wanting to give his editor a monster story to end all monster stories, a science fiction writer's imagination somehow makes the monster in his story real. He fights in the cellar and upstairs until he can imagine it out of existence. Once done, he swears never to write a science fiction story again!
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #28 (1964 ?)
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #4 (July 1970)
- in Captain America (Arédit-Artima, 1979 series) #6 - L'ombre de Spider-Man (4ème trimestre 1979)
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #195 ([circa 1980 - 1981])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 ([June] 2008)
-
Indexer Notes
Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
I Met the Thing on Midnight Island!
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-847
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Even now I can hardly believe it...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Rick Jordan
- Synopsis
- A sailor finds a note from a castaway, but on the island named he finds only a strange creature. When an alien ship arrives to pick up the creature, he realizes that it was a castaway.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #28 (1964 ?)
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #4 (July 1970)
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #195 ([circa 1980 - 1981])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 ([June] 2008)
-
- Keywords
- Midnight Island
Indexer Notes
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.
Gor-Kill, the Living Demon
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1.
I Alone Know the Dread Secret of Gor-Kill, the Living Demon!
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2.
Vial of Inspiration
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3.
Those Who Lurk Below!
-
4.
The Monster in My Cellar!
-
5.
I Met the Thing on Midnight Island!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Bill Borre
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Steve Dasinger
- Craig Delich
- Bill Devine
- Del Gruber
- Ethan Hoddes
- machinal jocelyn
- James Ludwig
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Karsten S.
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
- Tom Vincent
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