Volume: 1
Price: 0.12 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1963-12-09
Editing: Stan Lee (editor)
This issue has 1 variant

Issue Data

Indexer 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 1963, page 420, registration number B79627.

The Sinister Scarecrow!

Iron Man / comic story / 13 pages


  • Genre:superhero
  • Job Number:[X-581]
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Well, well!
  • Keywords:Long Island
Characters:
Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Scarecrow [Ebenezer Laughton, stage name "Uncanny Umberto"] (introduction, origin); Pepper Potts; Happy Hogan; Veronica Vogue
Synopsis:
A contortionist becomes the Scarecrow and steals some plans from Tony Stark to sell them to Cuba. Iron Man follows the Scarecrow and steals back the plans.
Reprints (15)

Indexer Notes

Job number revealed on original art. Info per Nick Caputo.

Scarecrow next appears in a cameo in Fantastic Four Annual (Marvel, 1963 series) #3 (1965) before appearing in X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #22 (July 1966).

text story / 2 pages


  • Genre:fantasy-supernatural
  • Job Number:K-338
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Josie was a tomboy.
  • Keywords:Fairyville
Characters:
Josie; Miss White; Whiskers (cat)
Synopsis:
A tomboyish girl tries out cooking to appease her mother, but accidentally cooks a witch's brew, totally inappropriate for a fairy like her.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

The Green Thing!

comic story / 5 pages


  • Genre:science fiction
  • Job Number:X-564
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:If you look at this man, you'll see nothing unusual about him!
Characters:
Fernusans (extraterrestrials); unnamed farmer
Synopsis:
A psychic alien plant lands on Earth and torments a human to prove its power, but it is eaten by a crow.
Reprints (4)

The Primitive!

Tales of the Watcher / comic story / 5 pages


  • Genre:science fiction; superhero
  • Job Number:X-548
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:On another world, light years from our Earth, there stands a strange structure...
Characters:
Watcher [Uatu] (narrator); Vince Harding; Paul Harding
Synopsis:
A space explorer finally gives up his quest to find a more advanced species, not knowing that the primitives he found were more advanced, until they invented the cobalt bomb.
Reprints (5)

Indexer Notes

Job number revealed on original art. Info per Nick Caputo: https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1254829

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