(January 1961)
Marvel,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Atlas Magazines, Inc.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
Distributed to newsstands in September 1960. This issue 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 of the comic are not numbered.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
I Battled Rorgg, King of the Spider Monsters!
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed as
KIRBY) - Inks
- Dick Ayers (signed as Ayers)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Rorgg; Tim Johnson; Ann
- Reprints
- Keywords
- monsters
I Dared to Battle...Rorgg, King of the Spider-Men!!
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-992
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Rorgg; Tim Johnson; Ann; Frank Johnson; Fred
- Synopsis
- A spider-like alien invades a small New Mexico town. No one can stop him except for a boy who reads science-fiction comics, who shows the value of imagination by killing him with a spray can of DDT.
- Reprints
-
in Zombie (L. Miller & Son, 1961 series) #7 ([circa 1961]) - in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #25 (1962)
- in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #57 (1965)
-
in HIP Comics (Classics/Williams, 1966 series) #19111 (1969) -
in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #111 -
in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #3 (March 1971) which is reprinted - in Hulk (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #9 ([August 1974])
-
in Dracula (Arédit-Artima, 1974 series) #4 (2ème trimestre 1975) [N&B et recadré/B&W and reframed] - in Monster Menace (Marvel, 1993 series) #4 (March 1994)
- in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (2017)
-
- Keywords
- monsters
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. Rorrg next appears in Fantastic Four Unlimited (Marvel, 1993 series) #7 (September 1994). The Frank Johnson in this story is not the same character as the creator of Zzutak from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #88 (September 1961).
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 Weatherman
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Maneely
- Inks
- Joe Maneely
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- K-71
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; science fiction
- Characters
- Willie Wimms; Hugh Wimms
- Synopsis
- In the future, young boy's afternoon is nearly ruined by a scheduled rainstorm, but when he runs into the rainmaker's magical assistant, he gets a delay.
- Reprints
- from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #49 (August 1956)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
I Found the Lair of...the Lizard Men
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-1000
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Eric Kane
- Synopsis
- A convict escapes and hides in a cavern, where he finds a society of lizard men unable to breathe on the surface. When he tries to steal the diamond that provides their light he is transformed into a lizard man and forced to live among them as an outcast.
- Reprints
- in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #26 (1962), #58 (1965 ?), #58 (1965 ?)
- in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #6 (December 1966)
- in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #109
- in Dracula (Arédit-Artima, 1974 series) #4 (2ème trimestre 1975) [N&B et recadré/B&W and reframed]
-
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. For some reason, a "Dread African prison camp" contains only white convicts and guards. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Story is pages 12-14, 16-18 of comic (page 1 not numbered then pages numbered 2 to 6).
I Must Find Korumbu!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. DITKO)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. DITKO)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number
- V-10
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Hugo Barge; Korumbu
- Synopsis
- A fat man who wishes to lose weight without giving up overeating goes to Korumbu for a magic potion. Korumbu tells him it is too dangerous at first, but when the fat man threatens to sic the authorities on the gypsy camp, Korumbu gives him the potion. He drinks, and passes out. When he comes to, the gypsy camp is gone, and he finds the potion has worked too well. He is constantly losing weight and if he stops stuffing his face even for a moment, he is in danger of wasting away to nothing. He spends the rest of his days searching for Korumbu.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #12 (1963 ?)
- in HIP Comics (Classics/Williams, 1966 series) #19114 (1969)
- in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #114
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #3 (March 1971) which is reprinted
- in Cosmos (Arédit-Artima, 1967 series) #34 (juin 1975) [N&B [B&W]]
- in Das Monster von Frankenstein (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #26 (Februar 1976)
- in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Possible Lee script per Nick Caputo's examination at his blog:
http://nick-caputo.blogspot.com/2011/11/who-authored-ditko.html
Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
Who Is the Ape Man?
comic story / 5 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
- Sam Rosen
- Job Number
- T-999
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Bruno Storme; Pierre Duval; Kazar
- Synopsis
- A bullying strong-man torments the animals in the circus where he works. He is humiliated and beaten by a mysterious strong-man, who turns out to be a gorilla disguised by its trainer, who is a chimpanzee in disguise.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #12 (1963 ?)
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #33 (1968 ?) [Black and white.]
- in HIP Comics (Classics/Williams, 1966 series) #19114 (1969)
- in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #114
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #195 ([circa 1988 - 1989])
-
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).
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Table of Contents
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0.
I Battled Rorgg, King of the Spider Monsters!
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1.
I Dared to Battle...Rorgg, King of the Spider-Men!!
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2.
The Weatherman
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3.
I Found the Lair of...the Lizard Men
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4.
I Must Find Korumbu!
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5.
Who Is the Ape Man?
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