(March 1962)
Marvel,
1959 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1961-12-12
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Vista Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
MC
- Printer
- The Eastern Color Printing Co., Waterbury, Conn.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, July-December 1961, page 365, registration number B942378. December 19 on sale date according to Bob Bailey.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
When Oog Lives Again!
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Oog
- Reprints
-
in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 ([August] 2010), #3 [Regular Edition] ([August] 2010) [cover] - in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #2 (2017)
-
Indexer Notes
Ayers credit per Nick Caputo and Michael J. Vassallo. Bob Bailey previously credited Steve Ditko.
![Cover Thumbnail for Tales of Suspense (1959 series) #27 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/951/w100/951457.jpg?453933040246759521)
Oog Lives Again!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Dick Ayers
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg ?
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?; Artie Simek (splash)
- Job Number
- V-515
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The Arctic! A vast frozen wasteland...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Oog; Charlie; Ben
- Synopsis
- An alien trapped in ice is freed and mocks the fearful humans as it waits to be rescued. "Invade you? You have nothing we want! We should quarantine you!"
- Reprints
-
in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #51 (1965), #51 (1965) [Cover is lifted from splash page of source story. ] - in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #20 (December 1972)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 ([August] 2010)
- in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #2 (2017)
-
- Keywords
- Arctic
Indexer Notes
Script and inks added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
From Outer Space
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- G-715
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It had been expected for a long time, so it wasn't too much of a...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Jonathan Ditmar
- Synopsis
- When hostile aliens come to Earth of the future they are persuaded not to enslave humanity because of Earth's music.
- Reprints
- from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #26 (February 1955) which is reprinted
- from Adventures into Weird Worlds (Marvel, 1952 series) #3 (March 1952) [as "From Outer Space"]
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 ([August] 2010)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Sequence added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
On the Trail of the Witch!
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-516
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In a dark, dank cave somewhere in the lonely hills of...
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Inspector Koraz
- Synopsis
- A witch is fearful of being pursued by a witch-hunter, but it turns out her fears are groundless as he is also a witch.
- Reprints
-
in Die Gruft von Graf Dracula (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #5 - in Weird Planets (Alan Class, 1962 series) #2 (1962)
- in Beware (Marvel, 1973 series) #1 (March 1973) which is reprinted
-
in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #36 (Mai 1974) - in L'Incroyable Hulk (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #78/79 ([février 1978]) [N&B [B&W]]
-
in Eclipso (Arédit-Artima, 1968 series) #36 (décembre 1973) [N&B [B&W]] - in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 ([August] 2010)
- in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #2 (2017)
-
Indexer Notes
Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
John Doe
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Paul Reinman (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg ?
- Letters
- John Duffy
- Editing
- ?
- Job Number
- V-517
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ever since the year 2000, there have been robots on...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Prof. Blake Burke; John Doe
- Synopsis
- An inventor creates a humanoid robot and treats it like a close friend. When the robot sacrifices itself to save him from a bear, his friends realize that the inventor is also a robot.
- Reprints
- in Weird Planets (Alan Class, 1962 series) #2 (1962)
- in Eclipso (Arédit-Artima, 1968 series) #36 (décembre 1973) [N&B [B&W]]
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 ([August] 2010)
-
- Keywords
- robots
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
His Name Was...Merlin!
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
- Joe Letterese
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- He called himself the Great Nero, but the audience called him a flop!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Joe Cooke [The Great Nero/Merlin the Mystic]; Merlin
- Synopsis
- An untalented magician who takes the name Merlin is visited by the spirit of the real Merlin in the form of a derelict and offers to teach him some tricks. When the man learns Merlin's last trick of completely disappearing, he stiffs Merlin his fee. Merlin tells him that he'll be sorry and is the last to depart the theater after the magician uses his disappearing trick and is never seen again.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #100, #100
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #22 (1964 ?), #151 ([circa 1976 - 1977])
- in Hulk (Arédit-Artima, 1976 series) #10 (juillet 1978) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #184 ([circa 1980 - 1981])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 ([August] 2010)
- in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #2 (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
If this story were in Marvel continuity, the Merlin that appears here could be the real Merlin or one of his various imposters.
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Table of Contents
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0.
When Oog Lives Again!
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1.
Oog Lives Again!
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2.
From Outer Space
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3.
On the Trail of the Witch!
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4.
John Doe
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5.
His Name Was...Merlin!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Bob Bailey
- Bill Borre
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Steve Dasinger
- Bill Devine
- Del Gruber
- Ethan Hoddes
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Jim Van Dore
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