(February 1963)
Marvel,
1959 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1962-11-08
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Vista Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
MC
- 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 1962, page 429, registration number B6029.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
The Teen-Ager Who Ruled the World!
cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- How would you like to have your own personal genie?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Bill Turner
- Reprints
-
in Weird Planets (Alan Class, 1962 series) #8 - in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #46 (1966 ?), #167 ([circa 1984 - 1985])
-
in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #4 ([September] 2012) - in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #2 (2017)
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Indexer Notes
Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 August 2006).
![Cover Thumbnail for Tales of Suspense (1959 series) #38 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1435/w100/1435796.jpg?6371861736329258208)
The Teen-Ager Who Ruled the World!
comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Davis
- Inks
- Jack Davis
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Jon D'Agostino
- Job Number
- X-14
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Behold the awesome genie!
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Bill Turner; Miss Parker; Joe; unnamed genie; John; Freddie
- Synopsis
- An arrogant teen-ager finds a genie's lamp and tries to make the world perfect, but finds that all his wishes have unexpected results.
- Reprints
- in Weird Planets (Alan Class, 1962 series) #8
- in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #46 (1966 ?)
-
in Dæmonen (Interpresse, 1967 series) #32 (1968) - in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #167 ([circa 1984 - 1985])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #4 ([September] 2012)
-
- Keywords
- Aladdin's lamp; Brooklyn
We Can't All Be Human!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
- Pencils
- Don Heck
- Inks
- Don Heck
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Ray Holloway
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Out of the unending cosmic darkness comes an alien spaceship...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Henry Mathews; Frank; Sgt. Ogg
- Synopsis
- Seemingly friendly aliens arrive on Earth, seeking refuge from pirates, but a philosophy student figures out that the first visitors are the pirates, and disguised themselves to appear pleasant to humans.
- Reprints
- in Weird Planets (Alan Class, 1962 series) #2 (1962)
- in Dæmonen (Interpresse, 1967 series) #21
- in Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #16 (September 1975)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #4 ([September] 2012)
-
- Keywords
- Interplanetary Police Patrol
Blueprint for Victory
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- [G-60]
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The Rhine and its ruined bridges lay thirty miles behind and the...
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- LtC. Cam Westover; Maj. Franks; Cpt. Bill Trayne; Gen. von Kretz
- Synopsis
- A cunning spy infiltrates German HQ with a phoney blueprint as bait and paralyzes communications before a major US assault.
- Reprints
- from Marines in Battle (Marvel, 1954 series) #6 (June 1955)
- in Weird Planets (Alan Class, 1962 series) #8
- in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #46 (1966 ?)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #4 ([September] 2012)
-
- Keywords
- Klugenhorst (village); World War II
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
The Man in the Mirror!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. Ditko)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. Ditko)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What is a mirror?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Silas Haggle; J.J. Jones; Smedley
- Synopsis
- A millionaire buys an enchanted mirror that allows him to wish any person he dislikes to be trapped inside of it. He wishes dozens of people into the mirror until he is contacted by agents of the IRS who wish to audit his books. He briefly considers wishing them into the mirror, but realizes that the government would just send more, so he decides to wish that no one will ever bother him again. He gets his wish, as he finds that all the people who were trapped in the mirror have been released and now he is its sole prisoner.
- Reprints
- in Weird Planets (Alan Class, 1962 series) #1 (1962)
- in Dæmonen (Interpresse, 1967 series) #18 (15. december 1967)
-
in Etranges Aventures (Arédit-Artima, 1966 series) #33 (mai 1974) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]] - in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #4 ([September] 2012)
- in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #2 (2019)
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Teen-Ager Who Ruled the World!
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1.
The Teen-Ager Who Ruled the World!
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2.
We Can't All Be Human!
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3.
Blueprint for Victory
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4.
The Man in the Mirror!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Bill Borre
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Steve Dasinger
- Bill Devine
- Del Gruber
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Ethan Hoddes
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
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