Marvel Boy
#1
(December 1950)
Marvel,
1950 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1950-08-24
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Medalion Publishing Corp.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
MARVEL BOY is published by MEDALION PUBLISHING CORP. Office of Publication: 350 5th Avenue, New York, N.Y. Application for second-class matter pending at the post office at New York, N.Y. under the Act of March 3, 1879. Additional entry at Holyoke, Mass. Published quarterly. Copyright 1950 by MEDALION PUBLISHING CORP., 350 5th Avenue, New York, N.Y. Vol. 1 No. 1 December 1950 issue. Price 10c per copy. Subscription rate $1.00 for 12 issues. No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons, and/or institutions appearing in this magazine with those of any living or dead person or institution is intended, and any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental. Printed in the U.S.A.
On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, July-December 1950, page 228, registration number B261953.
Some information on this issue supplied by the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, July-December 1950, page 228, registration number B261953.
Some information on this issue supplied by the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Lost World!
Marvel Boy / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Marvel Boy
- Reprints
-
in Marvel Boy (Bell Features, 1951 ? series) #40 ([circa January 1951]) -
in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Heroes (Marvel, 2007 series) #1 ([January] 2007) - in Agents of Atlas (Marvel, 2007 series) ([April] 2007)
- in Marvel Boy: The Uranian (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 (March 2010) which is reprinted
- in Atlas: Marvel Boy (Marvel, 2010 series) ([June] 2010)
- in Agents of Atlas: The Complete Collection (Marvel, 2018 series) #1 (2018)
-
- Keywords
- flying saucers; machine guns; shipwrecks
Indexer Notes
Heath inks per Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Heroes Volume One and Atlas-Tales. Previous indexer credited Sol Brodsky.
Marvel Boy and the Lost World
Marvel Boy / comic story / 12 pages
- Job Number
- 7672
- Genre
- science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Marvel Boy [Bob Grayson]; Matthew Grayson; Count Varron
- Synopsis
- Marvel Boy, Bob Grayson, is sent to earth from Uranus by his father to combat evil. When he arrives, he discovers newly risen continent about to be seized by an international criminal.
- Reprints
- in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #13 (March 1968)
- in Marvel Super Action (Marvel, 1977 series) #4 (November 1977) [only Pages 4 & 5-7 abridged] which is reprinted
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2003 series) #16 ([September] 2014) [only page 1]
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Heroes (Marvel, 2007 series) #1 ([January] 2007)
- in Agents of Atlas (Marvel, 2007 series) ([April] 2007)
- in Marvel Boy: The Uranian (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 (March 2010) which is reprinted
- in Atlas: Marvel Boy (Marvel, 2010 series) ([June] 2010)
- in Agents of Atlas: The Complete Collection (Marvel, 2018 series) #1 (2018)
-
- Keywords
- flying saucers; rockets; shipwrecks; undersea civilizations; Uranians; Uranus
Indexer Notes
Previous indexer felt that Stan Lee wrote this story. Marvel Comics and Roy Thomas in 2007 believed he did not.
Panic!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- 7726
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Dr. Caldwell; Red Asiatic League; United Allies
- Synopsis
- The United Allies trick the Red Asiatic League into surrendering by inducing panic.
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Heroes (Marvel, 2007 series) #1 ([January] 2007)
-
- Keywords
- atomic war; communism; rockets
Indexer Notes
Pencils credit from atlastales.com
The Case of the Cat
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- 7373
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #96 (June 1950)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Heroes (Marvel, 2007 series) #1 ([January] 2007)
-
Eyes of Death!
Marvel Boy / comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- 7708
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Marvel Boy [Bob Grayson]; Professor Vance [the Great Video]
- Synopsis
- An accident gives a scientist x-ray vision.
- Reprints
- in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #14 (May 1968)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Heroes (Marvel, 2007 series) #1 ([January] 2007)
-
- Keywords
- hypnotism; x-ray vision
Indexer Notes
Previous indexer gave writers credit to Stan Lee. Neither Marvel Comics or Roy Thomas felt in 2007, that Lee had written this feature. Bob Grayson is a newspaper reporter in this story.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Lost World!
Marvel Boy -
1.
Marvel Boy and the Lost World
Marvel Boy -
2.
Panic!
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3.
The Case of the Cat
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4.
Eyes of Death!
Marvel Boy
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