(June 1961)
Marvel,
1961 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1961-03-07
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Atlas Magazines Inc.
- 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. On-sale date from 1961 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
Join Us in the Search for Torr!
cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look at this print!!
- Genre
- horror-suspense; science fiction
- Characters
- Torr
- Reprints
-
in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #175 (August 1974) [slightly redrawn] which is reprinted - in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) ([August] 2007)
- in Marvel Visionaries: Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2004 series) #1 ([October] 2004)
- in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) ([August] 2007)
- in Marvel Firsts: The 1960s (Marvel, 2011 series) (2011)
- in King-Size Kirby (Marvel, 2015 series) (2015)
- in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (2017)
- in Marvel Visionaries: Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2019 series) (2019)
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- Keywords
- monsters
Torr
comic story / 13 pages
- Script
- Larry Lieber ? (script); Stan Lee ? (plot)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed as
KIRBY) - Inks
- Dick Ayers (signed as Ayers)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek; Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number
- V-165
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- He's trapped us in here!
- Genre
- horror-suspense; science fiction
- Characters
- Torr; Paul Ramsay; John Carter
- Synopsis
- Paul Ramsay is tried for murdering his friend and can't reveal that an alien had taken over John Carter's body for fear that his revelation will start an invasion.
- Reprints
-
in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #25 (1962) - in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #175 (August 1974)
- in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) ([August] 2007)
- in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (2017)
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- Keywords
- monsters
Indexer Notes
This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Torr!" (7 pp). Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 13).
Some data contributed by Joseph William Marek via the GCD Main List (19 May 2003). Writer credit from Martin O'Hearn's blog. Previously writer credit of Stan Lee from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.
Masquerade
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- G-750
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Tommy used to be the fellow from Missouri...
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Tommy; Kitty Blake; Old King Cole
- Synopsis
- Tom is a practical, doubting kind of person, who has no time for flights of fancy. As a child, he never had time for fairy tales and nursery rhymes. Then a young girl invites him to a costume party. He goes to the wrong address and encounters real life fairy tale creatures
- Reprints
- from Journey into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1950 series) #38 (October 1955)
- in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) ([August] 2007)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Data contributed by Joseph Marek via GCD Main List (19 May 2003). Reprint information provided by Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the GCD Main List (19 May 2003).
Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
Midnight in the Wax Museum
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed as Steve Ditko)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed as Steve Ditko)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-163
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A most dangerous criminal is caught red-handed...
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Pierre La Roc
- Synopsis
- Pierre La Roc is a criminal on the run, he climbs in through an open widow to escape the police, and finds himself in a wax museum. He hides as part of one of the exhibits as the police search the place. After the police leave, the wax figures come to life and chase La Roc out of the building, whereupon he then surrenders to the police. Later, a policeman discusses the strange case with a figure in a top hat, who later returns to his place as one of the wax figures in the museum.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #13 (1964 ?)
- in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #175 (August 1974)
- in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) ([August] 2007)
- in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Some data contributed by Joseph Marek via the GCD Main List (19 May 2003). Writer credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index and confirmed by Martin O'Hearn. Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
I Am the Fantastic Dr. Droom!
Dr. Droom / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Larry Lieber ? (script); Stan Lee ? (plot)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Steve Ditko
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-164
- Genre
- superhero; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Dr. Anthony Droom [later retroactively renamed Doctor Druid] (introduction, origin)
- Synopsis
- In the City Medical Club, a group of doctors is discussing the Tibetan lama who has requested medical attention from a Western physician. Anthony Droom decides to lend a hand. The lama announced that he was fit to replace the aged master in his battle against evil and transforms him into an Asian.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #13 (1964 ?)
- in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #19 (December 1976) [character renamed from Doctor Droom to Doctor Druid]
- in Marvel Visionaries: Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2004 series) #1 ([October] 2004)
- in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) ([August] 2007)
- in Marvel Firsts: The 1960s (Marvel, 2011 series) (2011)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Marvel Rarities (Marvel, 2014 series) #1 (2014)
- in King-Size Kirby (Marvel, 2015 series) (2015)
- in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (2017)
- in Marvel Visionaries: Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2019 series) (2019)
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- Keywords
- Himalayas
Indexer Notes
This is the first Doctor Droom story, Droom was later renamed Doctor Druid retroactively. Some data contributed by Joseph Marek via the GCD Main List (19 May 2003). Writer credit from Martin O'Hearn. Previous credit of Stan Lee from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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Join Us in the Search for Torr!
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1.
Torr
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2.
Masquerade
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3.
Midnight in the Wax Museum
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4.
I Am the Fantastic Dr. Droom!
Dr. Droom
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