(February 1961)

Marvel, 1952 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1960-10-27
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. On-sale date from 1960 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

The Brute That Walks! (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Jack Kirby
Inks
Steve Ditko
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Artie Simek

Genre
science fiction
Characters
"The Brute That Walks" [Howard Avery]
Reprints
Keywords
monsters

I Am the Brute That Walks! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 13 pages (report information)

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
V-75
Genre
science fiction
Characters
Howard Avery; Sally Barton
Synopsis
A man invents a growth serum to deal with his insecurities, but it turns him into a monster. He is driven mad by the serum and terrifies the city until it wears off. He gets the credit for destroying the monster and destroys his notes to prevent a repeat.
Reprints
Keywords
monsters

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the first person. The story is divided into two parts: Part 1: I Am the Brute That Walks 1 (6 pp) and Part 2: The Brute That Walks! (7 pp) without separate titles. The Brute next appears in Marvel Monsters: From the Files of Ulysses Bloodstone and the Monster Hunters (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (November 2005)

This story is said to take place in Chicago. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 13).

The Inventor (Table of Contents: 2)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
F-889
Genre
science fiction
Characters
Ned Carter; Mr. Jonas
Synopsis
A disgruntled janitor's obsessive effort to create a sweeping robot costs him his job and ends in failure, but only because he sees no use for a perpetual motion machine.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).

Fear in the Night (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Steve Ditko (signed)
Inks
Steve Ditko (signed as Steve Ditko)
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Artie Simek

Job Number
V-83
Genre
science fiction
Characters
Zenocian #7; Model Vog robot
Synopsis
A man and a robot are stranded and the man tries to sacrifice himself to save the robot, but they are both saved, and we find that the man was a humanoid robot, and the robot a robot-looking alien.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

Kragoo! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
Pencils
Don Heck
Inks
Don Heck
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Artie Simek

Job Number
V-84
Genre
science fiction
Characters
Kragoo
Synopsis
An alien soldier is given immense strength and the ability to possess the body of one victim in order to hypnotize the population of their target planet. One is sent to Earth, but mistakenly possesses a statue and is trapped.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the second person. This story is a retelling of "Trapped on Earth!" from issue #52 (May 1959). In this story the human-looking aliens are exposed to gamma radiation to transform them into large deformed warriors, and was published more than a year before the introduction of the Hulk.

Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 4 and last page not numbered).

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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Brute That Walks!
  2. 1. I Am the Brute That Walks!
  3. 2. The Inventor
  4. 3. Fear in the Night
  5. 4. Kragoo!
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Dwayne Best
  • Bill Borre
  • David Bruce
  • Nick Caputo
  • Steve Coates
  • Jan Roar Hansen
  • Matthew Head
  • Ethan Hoddes
  • machinal jocelyn
  • Hunter Johnson
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Jim Van Dore
  • Tom Vincent