(March 1962)
Marvel,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1962-01-02 ?
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Atlas Magazines Inc.
- Brand
-
MC
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
Distributed to newsstands December 21, 1961, according to Bob Bailey. Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
The copyright date for this issue listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 16, Part 2, No. 1, Periodicals, Jan.-June 1962 is incorrectly recorded as "2 Feb". Based on the copyright dates for the surrounding issues, the correct date is likely in the very beginning of January.
This issue has variants:
The copyright date for this issue listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 16, Part 2, No. 1, Periodicals, Jan.-June 1962 is incorrectly recorded as "2 Feb". Based on the copyright dates for the surrounding issues, the correct date is likely in the very beginning of January.
This issue has variants:
Kraggoom! The Creature Who Caught an Astronaut!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Steve Ditko
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?; Artie Simek (splash)
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Kraggoom; Derek Wolfington
- Synopsis
- An exiled gaseous alien criminal named Kraggoom waits in Earth orbit for the first human astronaut in order to enter his body and possess his mind, returning to Earth as a conqueror. However, the first astronaut turns out to be a wealthy cheat who paid a safecracker to obtain the test results from NASA's selection process and altered them so that he would be chosen as the first astronaut. He is unable to cope with space travel and develops amnesia under the stress. Kraggoom, trapped in the human's mind, suffers the same fate as the spacecraft returns to Earth.
- Reprints
-
in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #100 - in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #22 (1964 ?)
-
in HIP Comics (Classics/Williams, 1966 series) #1993 ([1969]) -
in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #93 -
in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #9 (February 1971) -
in Aventures Fiction (Arédit-Artima, 1966 series) #21 (juillet 1971) [N&B et remonté [B&W and reframed]] - in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #151 ([circa 1976 - 1977]), #184 ([circa 1980 - 1981])
- in Gamma la bombe qui a créé Hulk (Arédit-Artima, 1979 series) #11 - Le Maillon Manquant (4ème trimestre 1980)
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #247 ([circa 1988 - 1989])
- in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #2 (2017)
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Indexer Notes
Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
Time Machine
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Reed Crandall (Illustration)
- Inks
- Reed Crandall (Illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- G-85
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A man's fascination with history leads him to build a time machine and travel to the past, but when he sees the dangers of time travel he destroys the machine and blueprints.
- Reprints
- from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #57 (March 1957) which is reprinted
- from Journey into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1950 series) #35 (June 1955) [as "Time Machine"]
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Sequence added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
The Sorcerer
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Dick Ayers
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-532
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Lucy Scott; Aaron
- Synopsis
- A stranger appears at a gas station and asks for a job. He has mysterious powers, and is eventually attacked by supernatural beings. They agree to leave him alone, but only if he gives up his powers.
- Reprints
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #49
- in Weird Planets (Alan Class, 1962 series) #16
- in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #73
- in Aventures Fiction (Arédit-Artima, 1966 series) #21 (juillet 1971) [N&B et remonté [B&W and reframed]]
- in Dracula le Vampire (Arédit-Artima, 1980 series) #6 - Requiem pour un vampire (3ème trimestre 1981)
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #180 ([circa 1986 - 1987])
- in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #2 (2017)
-
Indexer Notes
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Timely/Atlas discussion group. Script and inks added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
The Clutching Hand
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Joe Sinnott
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- John Duffy
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Charlie; Mike
- Synopsis
- The producers of an oddities exhibit strike it rich when a suspended hand appears in their booth. The more honest one discovers that the hand is part of a stranded extra-dimensional being and frees it, enraging his crooked partner, who takes the profits and leaves, leaving his partner to collect a reward in gold from the being.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #91, #31 (1964 ?)
- in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #103
- in Etranges Aventures (Arédit-Artima, 1966 series) #21 (juillet 1971) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #225 ([circa 1984 - 1985])
-
Indexer Notes
Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.). The last page includes an advertisements for the Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series).
Monsters on Mercury!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed as
Stan Lee [early- to mid-career]) - Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. DITKO)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. DITKO)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Ben
- Synopsis
- On Christmas eve, the first group of astronauts to land on Mercury encounter a group of friendly telepathic aliens who make them a Christmas tree.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #91, #31 (1964 ?)
- in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #7 (February 1967)
- in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #103
- in Etranges Aventures (Arédit-Artima, 1966 series) #22 (septembre 1971) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
- in Crazy Magazine (Marvel, 1973 series) #79 (October 1981) [original title "Monster on Mercury"; same art but new dialogue and lettering]
- in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #2 (2019)
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Indexer Notes
This book was published around Christmas 1961 coinciding with the science fiction Christmas theme. (Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005).
The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.
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Table of Contents
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0.
The Sorcerer!
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1.
Kraggoom! The Creature Who Caught an Astronaut!
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2.
Time Machine
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3.
The Sorcerer
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4.
The Clutching Hand
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5.
Monsters on Mercury!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Bob Bailey
- Bill Borre
- David Bruce
- Guy Budziak
- Nick Caputo
- John Censullo
- Steve Coates
- Gregory Fischer
- Matthew Head
- Ethan Hoddes
- Hunter Johnson
- Mike Nielsen
- Per Sandell
- Dan Stevenson
- Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
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