- Script
- Stan Lee (signed as )
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. DITKO)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. DITKO)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-719
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Tad Carter (introduction, origin); Brad Carter; Mr. Filbert; Tobias Messenger (identified in X-Men: the Hidden Years (Marvel, 1999 series) #18)
- Synopsis
- A boy's early exposure to radiation causes him to develop powers. He is attacked when others learn of his powers, and suddenly is lifted into the sky by another far-off mutant, who contacts his mind and explains that he must live in hiding with other mutants until the world is ready.
- Reprints
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #36
- in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #113 ([circa 1975 - 1976])
- in Marvel Age (Marvel, 1983 series) #104 (September 1991)
- in X-Men: Rarities (Marvel, 1995 series) (July 1995)
- in X-Men Classic (Marvel Italia, 1995 series) #5 (febbraio 1996)
- in Marvel Milestones: Dragon Lord, Speedball & the Man in the Sky (Marvel, 2006 series) (2006), (2006) [splash page only]
- in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) ([August] 2007)
- in X-Men (Penguin Classics Marvel Collection) (Penguin Random House, 2023 series) (2023)
- in X-Men: The Hidden Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2023 series) (2023)
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
This story is a retelling of "The Man With the Atomic Brain" drawn by Steve Ditko, from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #52 (May 1959).
This story is often erroneously referred to as the first Marvel mutant story, the idea is used in earlier stories from their SF anthologies, for example "The Mutants and Me!" in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #6 (November 1959) but also "Concentrate in Chaos" in Yellow Claw (Marvel, 1956 series) #2.
Tad Carter next appears in X-Men: the Hidden Years (Marvel, 1999 series) #15 (January 2001).
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko ? (illustration)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko ? (illustration)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek; typeset
- Reprints
Includes a letter from "Carl the Cat" in Greenwich Village. Stan Lee responds to a question about who edits the stories that Lee and Ditko do their own editing.