(August 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 June 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.
I Brought the Roc to Life!
cover / 1 page
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Roc; John Avery; Anne Avery
- Reprints:
-
in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #10 (April 1971) [with additions; with additional art]
-
- Keywords:
- monsters
Indexer Notes
Cover signed "Ditko" on the Jeep.
I Brought the Roc to Life!
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; Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number:
- V-267
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Roc; John Avery; Anne Avery
- Synopsis:
- Two newlyweds in Egypt uncover a huge egg in the sand that hatches into the Roc in the warm sunlight. The monstrous bird flies around gathering parts of bridges, trains and other items to use in constructing a nest until the scientist that uncovered the egg gets the idea to build a robotic duplicate that flies into outer space, enticing the Roc to follow it in its forlorn quest for a mate.
- Reprints:
- in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #10 (April 1971)
-
- Keywords:
- monsters
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"The Roc Lives Again!" (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).
Zero of Time
text story / 2 pages
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- 9689
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- John Pearson; Prof. Thomas Benton; Father Time
- Synopsis:
- A scientist's machine transports him and a reporter outside of time and into the realm of Father Time.
- Reprints:
- from Adventures Into Weird Worlds (Marvel, 1952 series) #7 (June 1952)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
The Boy Who Vanished!
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-268
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Billy Carter; Alana
- Synopsis:
- A lame boy wills himself to the future and his legs are healed before he sends himself home.
- Reprints:
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #4 (July 1971)
-
in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #31 ([no date])
-
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).
The Painting
comic story / 5 pages
- Script:
- Stan Lee ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
- Job Number:
- V-263
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Characters:
- Simon Squeed
- Synopsis:
- An art dealer who buys quality paintings at rock-bottom insulting prices from poverty stricken artists and then sells them for thousands attempts to steal a beautiful painting from a gypsy who refuses to sell it. The dealer has the gypsy arrested on a trumped up charge and burgles the man's wagon to remove the painting. When the gypsy is released because the man cannot be found he knows why and goes to the art dealer's apartment to retrieve his enchanted painting, finding the art dealer now a part of the picture.
- Reprints:
- in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #6 (May 1971) which is reprinted
- in Amazing Adventures (Marvel, 1970 series) #24 (May 1974) [page 2 edited out]
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #31 ([no date])
-
in Indexer Notes
The name Bessarabia was obsolete even when this story was printed, it was then part of the Soviet Union, and is today known as Moldova.
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Script and Letters credit from The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Creators website.
Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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0.
I Brought the Roc to Life!
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1.
I Brought the Roc to Life!
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2.
Zero of Time
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3.
The Boy Who Vanished!
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4.
The Painting
- Ethan Hoddes
- Tony R. Rose
- Nick Caputo
- Darrel McCann
- Mike Nielsen
- machinal jocelyn
- Jim Van Dore
- Bill Borre
- Matthew Head
- Bob Heer
- Bob Klein
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
- Darrel McCann
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