(May 1962)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.12 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 March 1, 1962 according to Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website and February 27, 1962 according to Bob Bailey. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
Won't You Step Into My Parlor?
cover / 1 page
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
- Genre:
- fantasy-supernatural; horror-suspense
- Reprints:
-
in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #155 ([circa 1975 - 1976]), #36 ([undated])
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Indexer Notes
Possible Klein inks per Nick Caputo. Bob Bailey credits Dick Ayers with inks.
The cover art does not really depict any part of the story, there is no point when one of the two men is tiny and the other normal sized, neither of the characters on the cover resemble those in the story.
Lee and Ditko are mentioned by name in the cover caption.
Won't You Step Into My Parlor...???
comic story / 7 pages
- Script:
- Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Ray Holloway ?
- Genre:
- fantasy-supernatural; horror-suspense
- Characters:
- Luther Krumhausen; Darius Zamora
- Synopsis:
- Herr Krumhausen prepares a giant room to deceive business competitor only to really shrink himself.
- Reprints:
-
in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #99 (1969) -
in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #7 (October 1973) -
in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #99 (21 Gennaio 1975) [as "Non vuoi camminare nel mio salotto...???", Italian translation] - in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #36 ([undated])
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Indexer Notes
Title, Script and synopsis added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.). The third, fourth and sixth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series).
Strange Mission
text story / 2 pages
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Joe Maneely
- Inks:
- Joe Maneey
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- K-440
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Alfred Pook; Harold; Dr. Smith
- Synopsis:
- A man becomes confused over directions to the dentist and as a result accidentally pilots an expedition to claim a new planet.
- Reprints:
- from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #45 (September 1956)
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Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Sequence added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.)
Propaganda
comic story / 6 pages
- Script:
- Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number:
- [None]
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Characters:
- Boris Grozny; Ivan Grozny
- Synopsis:
- Low level communist worker Boris Grozny is given a chance to avoid Siberia if he can stir up turmoil in an African nation. All he stirs up is trouble for himself with the native gods.
- Reprints:
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #24 (1964 ?), #145 ([circa 1975 - 1976])
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Indexer Notes
Script, inks, characters, synopsis added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.).
The second page includes an advertisement for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series); the last page includes an advertisement for the Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also drawn by Jack Kirby.
I Spent the Night in a Haunted House!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script:
- Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck
- Inks:
- Don Heck
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Ray Holloway ?
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Characters:
- Tom
- Synopsis:
- A young boy who has just moved to town is convinced to spend the night in a haunted house. He doesn't find any ghosts but the next day realizes the house itself was the ghost.
- Reprints:
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #24 (1964 ?)
- in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #26 (October 1973)
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Indexer Notes
Script, synopsis added by Bob Bailey. This story is retold as "I Speak of the Haunted House!" by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #42 (June 1963). (Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.)) The fourth page includes an advertisement for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series).
The kids are shown reading comic books: Journey into Mystery, Strange Tales, Tales to Astonish and Tales of Suspense, which are mentioned by name.
For the Birds!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script:
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Borgon
- Synopsis:
- Mr. Borgon is an unscrupulous hunter of rare animals in the future who finds himself trapped by his own deceit.
- Reprints:
-
in HIP Comics (Classics/Williams, 1966 series) #1963 (1968) - in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #36 ([undated])
-
Indexer Notes
Script, synopsis by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.). The third page includes an advertisement for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series); the last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.
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Won't You Step Into My Parlor?
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1.
Won't You Step Into My Parlor...???
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2.
Strange Mission
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3.
Propaganda
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4.
I Spent the Night in a Haunted House!
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5.
For the Birds!
- Ethan Hoddes
- Bob Bailey
- Nick Caputo
- Jim Van Dore
- Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr
- Ramon Schenk
- Bob Heer
- Bob Klein
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
- Darrel McCann
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