(June 1965)

Marvel, 1959 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.12 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1965-03-04
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Vista Publications Inc.
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [under character box]
Editing
Stan Lee (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from 1965 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

Peril from the Past! / Back from the Dead! (Table of Contents)

Giant-Man; Hulk / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
Stan Lee
Pencils
Jack Kirby; Bob Powell (see notes)
Inks
Vince Colletta
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Sam Rosen

Genre
superhero
Characters
Giant-Man [Henry Pym]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Human Top [Dave Cannon]; Rick Jones (inset); Leader [Samuel Sterns] (inset); Betty Ross (inset); General Ross (inset); Major Glenn Talbot (inset)
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Giant-Man figure taken from page 3; panel 1 of interior story, with figure of man added by Kirby/Colletta. Bottom tier featuring the Hulk is also Kirby/Colletta art. Info per Nick Caputo, September 2014.

Peril from the Long-Dead Past! (Table of Contents: 1)

Giant-Man and the Wasp / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee (credited)
Pencils
Bob Powell (credited)
Inks
Vince Colletta (credited)
Colors
?
Letters
Sam Rosen (credited as S. Rosen)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Look out, you fool!!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Giant-Man [Henry Pym]; Human Top [Dave Cannon]; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]; Boopsie; Sam; Frank
Synopsis
Realizing that the strain of growing and shrinking so much is doing damage to his body, Hank adjusts his helmet so he can only grow to one size--the 35 foot height of Giant-Man. With the Ant-Man side of his abilities out of his bag of tricks, he adjusts Jan's helmet so she can cybernetically communicate with wasps. Oh, and the Human Top attacks too.
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

The Merry Marvel Marching Society / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?; typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Big news for all you Merry Marvel Marchers - and all of you who...
Characters
Giant-Man [Henry Pym]

Indexer Notes

House ad for the M.M.M.S. plus membership form.

Back from the Dead! (Table of Contents: 3)

Hulk / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee (credited)
Pencils
Jack Kirby (credited)
Inks
Mike Esposito (credited as Mickey Demeo)
Colors
?
Letters
Artie Simek (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Fleeing from bloodthirsty bandits, Bruce Banner and Major Glen Talbot fall...
Genre
superhero
Characters
Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Thunderbolt Ross; Glenn Talbot; Betty Ross; Rick Jones; Leader [Samuel Sterns] (villains); Humanoids (villain); Lyndon Johnson (cameo)
Synopsis
Saving Talbot and himself from plunging to their deaths, the Hulk decides he is tired of world travel and leaps home. Waking up in gamma base, Bruce is once again jailed as a traitor and the president once again sets him free (Rick told the commander in chief the secret of the Hulk a few issues ago). Banner and Talbot are once again sent to Astra Island to continue a test of the absorbatron but the leader sends an army of Humanoids who finally succeed in capturing the Hulk.
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Keywords
absorbatron; gamma base; Humanoids

Indexer Notes

Continued next issue. At this point, all the stories are multi-part in cliff-hanger style and are continued in following issues.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Mails to Astonish / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Stan Lee
Letters
typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
And there you have it!
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Letters from: John Meysenburg Jr, Doug Handler, Jeff Charlet, Buddy Coyle, and Michael Venia; includes The Mighty Marvel Checklist.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Peril from the Past! / Back from the Dead!
    Giant-Man; Hulk
  2. 1. Peril from the Long-Dead Past!
    Giant-Man and the Wasp
  3. 2. ["Big news for all you Merry Marvel Marchers - and all of you who..."]
    The Merry Marvel Marching Society
  4. 3. Back from the Dead!
    Hulk
  5. 4. ["And there you have it!"]
    Mails to Astonish
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  • Kelly Langston-Smith
  • Lou Mazzella
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