(March 1971)
Marvel,
1970 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1970-12-22
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Magazine Management Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [under character box]
- Printer
- Printed in the U.S.A. by World Color Press, Inc., Sparta, Illinois 62286
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1971 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress with a correction factor of plus 28 days.
Gorgilla!
cover / 1 page
- Script
- Stan Lee ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby; Marie Severin (alterations)
- Inks
- Dick Ayers; Marie Severin (alterations)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Gorgilla
- Reprints
-
from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #24 (October 1961) [as a cover to the story "Gorgilla Strikes Again!" from issue #18 (April 1961); original title: The Abominable Snowman!]
-
- Keywords
- monsters
Indexer Notes
Additional figures and background art by Marie Severin. Info per Nick Caputo, June 2015.
The monster pictured is The Abominable Snowman (from Tales to Astonish #24); it is unclear why the cover to Tales to Astonish #18, where "Gorgilla Strikes Again" was not used.
Gorgilla Strikes Again!
comic story / 12 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Dick Ayers
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-122
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Gorgilla; Scotty; Anne
- Synopsis
- Gorgilla stows away on a ship to America to contact the human race, but is met with fear and violence in New York. He stumbles across some communist spies and stops an assassination, but is killed by the military out of fear.
- Reprints
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #18 (April 1961) [part 1 (page count uncertain)], #18 (April 1961) [part 2 (page count uncertain)]
-
- Keywords
- monsters
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. Gorgilla last appeared in the story reprinted in (Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #9 (February 1971), and later appears in Marvel Universe (Marvel, 1998 series) and Defenders (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (March 2001).
Something Missing!!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Don Heck
- Inks
- Don Heck
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-330
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Sally; Tom
- Synopsis
- The first mission to Mercury has a stow-away, the lover of one of the pilots. The captain is angry, but when they arrive on Mercury they find that the natives are hostile, and only the girl's display of love towards the pilot convinces them that the humans have something of value to offer.
- Reprints
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #24 (October 1961)
-
in L'Étonnant Spider-Man (Editions Héritage, 1969 series) #37 (juillet 1974)
-
He Waits in the Dark!
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- V-328
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A mysterious janitor tries to improve conditions for the residents of a tenement and then faces the greedy landlord in a final showdown.
- Reprints
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #24 (October 1961)
- in L'Étonnant Spider-Man (Editions Héritage, 1969 series) #21 (avril 1973)
- in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #33 (Février 1974)
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Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Gorgilla!
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1.
Gorgilla Strikes Again!
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2.
[no title indexed]
Mighty Marvel Checklist -
3.
Something Missing!!
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4.
He Waits in the Dark!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Dwayne Best
- Chris Boyko
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Merlin Haas
- Ethan Hoddes
- Jim Van Dore
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