(July 1961)
Marvel,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1961-05-02
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Atlas Magazines, Inc.
- Brand
-
MC
- 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.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
The Sandman Cometh!
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
- Sandman (alien); Steve Bronson; Anne Bronson
- Reprints
-
in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #23, #82 ([circa 1971 - 1972]), #122 ([circa 1976 - 1977]), #150 ([circa 1981 - 1982]) -
in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (2017)
-
- Keywords
- monsters
![Cover Thumbnail for Journey into Mystery (1952 series) #70 [UKPV]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1526/w100/1526455.jpg?-2247932951806984996)
The Sandman Cometh!
comic story / 13 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
- 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 Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #23
-
in Hit Comics Die Spinne (BSV - Williams, 1971 series) #225 - in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #13 (October 1971)
-
in L'Inattendu (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #2 (2e trimestre 1975) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]] - in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #122 ([circa 1976 - 1977]), #150 ([circa 1981 - 1982])
- 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. 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
- 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, 1950 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 as
Paul Reinman) - Inks
- Paul Reinman (signed as Paul Reinman)
- 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 Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #23
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #31
-
in Marvelserien (Williams Förlags AB, 1967 series) #32 (1969) -
in HIP Comics (Classics/Williams, 1966 series) #19112 (1969) - in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #112
- in Eclipso (Arédit-Artima, 1968 series) #26 (janvier 1973) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
- in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #6 (October 1973) which is reprinted
-
in L'Étonnant Spider-Man (Editions Héritage, 1969 series) #42 (décembre 1974) - in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #122 ([circa 1976 - 1977]), #150 ([circa 1981 - 1982])
-
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 as Ditko)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)
- 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 Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #23
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #31
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #86
- in Marvelserien (Williams Förlags AB, 1967 series) #32 (1969)
- in HIP Comics (Classics/Williams, 1966 series) #19112 (1969)
- in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #112
- in The Mighty World of Marvel (Marvel UK, 1972 series) #56 (October 27, 1973)
- in Vengeur (Arédit-Artima, 1972 series) #8 (1er trimestre 1974) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
- 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 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.
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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Table of Contents
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0.
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
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