(July 1961)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher:
- Atlas Magazines, Inc.
- Brand:
- MC
- Editing:
- Stan Lee
- Color:
- color
- Dimensions:
- standard Golden Age US; then standard Silver Age US
- Paper Stock:
- newsprint
- Binding:
- saddle-stitched
- Publishing Format:
- was ongoing series
Issue Notes
Distributed to newstands in May 1961. This issue 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.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
The Sandman Cometh!
cover / 1 page
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Sandman (alien); Steve Bronson; Anne Bronson
- Reprints:
-
in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #82 ([circa 1971 - 1972]), #122 ([circa 1976 - 1977]), #150 ([circa 1981 - 1982]) -
in Monsters (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 - in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #23 (?)
-
- Keywords:
- monsters
The Sandman Cometh!
comic story / 13 pages
- Script:
- Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
- Job Number:
- V-225
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Sandman (alien) Steve Bronson; Anne Bronson; Bobby Bronson
- Synopsis:
- A family stumbles across a hostile alien made of sand. The military are helpless, but it is defeated by the family’s bookish son, who uses water to dissolve it and traps it in a bucket.
- Reprints:
- in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #13 (October 1971)
- in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #122 ([circa 1976 - 1977])
- in Monsters (Marvel, 2017 series) #1
- in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #23 (?)
-
- Keywords:
- monsters
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two untitled parts (6 pp, 7 pp). 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).
Bird Talk
text story / 2 pages
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- K-424
- Genre:
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters:
- Tony Tipple; Skeets Mulligan; Toodles Murphy
- Synopsis:
- A meeting with a strange man gives a boy an unusual way of getting a pet bird, talking to birds.
- Reprints:
- from Journey into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #50 (October 1956)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
A Thousand Years
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:
- V-226
- Genre:
- horror-suspense; science fiction
- Characters:
- Mr. Jordan; The Devil ?
- Synopsis:
- A convict is offered freedom and a thousand years of life by a mysterious stranger in return for his name on a contract. He signs, and finds himself freed, and sealed in a rocket flying away from Earth. He feels neither hunger or thirst, so he will live a thousand years alone.
- Reprints:
- in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #6 (October 1973)
- in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #122 ([circa 1976 - 1977])
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #31 ([no date])
- in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #23 (?)
-
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. 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).
The Stone Man
comic story / 5 pages
- Script:
- Stan Lee ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
- Job Number:
- V-224
- Genre:
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters:
- Dralla/Drallas (both names are used)
- Synopsis:
- An old man prays to the statue of a local hero for help for the local poor. His prayers are answered, but his neighbors cheat him out of his share of the statue’s gift. The statue comes to life, punishes the villagers and takes the old man to heaven.
- Reprints:
- in Kull the Destroyer (Marvel, 1973 series) #12 (February 1974) [pp1–2, p3: panels 2, 4–6, p4: panels 2, 4–5, p5, reformatted]
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #31 ([no date])
- in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #23 (?)
- in The Mighty World of Marvel (Marvel UK, 1972 series) #56
-
Indexer Notes
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
The story is credited to Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in the Mighty World of Marvel #56 reprint.
Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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The Sandman Cometh!
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1.
The Sandman Cometh!
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2.
Bird Talk
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3.
A Thousand Years
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4.
The Stone Man
- Ethan Hoddes
- Tony R. Rose
- Nick Caputo
- machinal jocelyn
- Jim Van Dore
- Dwayne Best
- Bill Borre
- Peter Croome
- Bob Heer
- Bob Klein
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
- Darrel McCann
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