Volume: 1
Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1960-07-28
Editing: Stan Lee (editor)
This issue has 1 variant

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Indexer Notes

Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements (pages 2, 9, 15, 19, 25, 27, 33-36 of the comic, including the inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover); the pages are not numbered. All new stories are narrated in the first person. On-sale date from 1960 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

I Was a Slave of the Living Hulk!

comic story / 13 pages


  • Genre:science fiction
  • Job Number:T-913
Characters:
Hulk [Xemnu, later called "the Titan"] (introduction, origin); Joe Harper
Synopsis:
An electrician finds and revives an alien criminal. He psychically enslaves all humanity, forcing them to build him a ship that will help him escape and destroy the Earth. The electrician sabotages the ship and sends him into orbit around the Sun.
Reprints (10)

Indexer Notes

Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 13). This story is divided into two chapters: Chapter 1—"The Coming of the Hulk!" (7 pp, pages 1 to 7 of story) and Chapter 2—"Slaves of the Hulk!" (6 pp, pages 8 to 13 of story). The Hulk next appears in Journey Into Mystery #66 (March 1961).

This is one of the first 'feature-length' monster stories published by Marvel (the other, "I Created Krang!" was published simultaneously in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #14). The format would be followed three months later in all four SF anthologies with a fifth (Amazing Adventures) launched in the next year.

Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

Possible Lee plot; Lieber script per Nick Caputo. George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index credits Stan Lee solely.

Strange Mission

text story / 2 pages


  • Genre:science fiction
  • Job Number:K-440
Characters:
Alfred Pook; Harold; Dr. Smith
Synopsis:
A man becomes confused over directions to the dentist and as a result accidentally pilots an expedition to claim a new planet.
Reprints (2)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).

There Is a Brain Behind the Fangs!

comic story / 5 pages


  • Genre:science fiction
  • Job Number:T-909
Characters:
Frank Miller; Dr. John Redfield; Laddie; Pharaoh
Synopsis:
A man is convinced that dogs are secretly planning to take over the world. His friend hypnotizes a dog and proves that it cannot understand complex questions. Neither suspects that the dog has been hypnotized by the cat.
Reprints (5)

Indexer Notes

This would not be the last crazy idea that Frank Miller would have. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

I Can't Escape from the Creeping Things!

comic story / 5 pages


Indexer Notes

Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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