Issue | #6 |
Published | November 1959 |
Frequency | bi-monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in July 1959. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
Characters | Charley |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | George Klein |
Notes | Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 August 2006); the original indexer credited Christopher Rule. |
Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
Characters | Charley |
Synopsis | A fishing guide encounters an alien monster in the swamp, and after initial disbelief, the military plans to kill it. When two larger aliens arrive to take the thing away, they realize that it was only a lost child. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Reprinted | in James Bond (Semic Press AB, 1965 series) #18/1972 (January 11, 1972) [as "Skriet från träsket", Swedish translation]; in James Bond (Semic Press AB, 1965 series) #6/1982 (August 1982) [as "Skriet från träsket", Swedish translation]; in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
Characters | Lester Ford; Marie Ford; Lady Luck |
Synopsis | A businessman doesn’t believe in luck, but several beneficial encounters with an old lady change his mind. |
Genre | occult |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with illustration. |
Reprinted | from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #136 (July 1955) |
Characters | Mr. Sloane; Sinbad |
Synopsis | A man mentally transports himself to the past and becomes Sinbad, experiencing his encounter with the cyclops. He thinks that it was only a fantasy, but finds that he is still holding one of the cyclops' jewels. |
Genre | sword and sorcery |
Pencils | Don Heck |
Inks | Don Heck |
Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
Characters | Henry Marsh; Vincent Farnsworth |
Synopsis | A man ignores his friend's theories about super-powered mutant humans, but after teleporting himself out of a locked safe he reconsiders. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Joe Sinnott (signed) |
Inks | Joe Sinnott (signed) |
Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. "The Man in the Sky" by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series) #14 (July 1962) is often called 'the first mutant story' but this predates it by more than two years. |
Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
Characters | "Hard Luck" Harry; Mr. Craddock |
Synopsis | A burglar wears a rubber mask to avoid identification, but after his victim sees him, he discovers that his face and changed to match his mask. |
Genre | occult |
Pencils | Dick Ayers |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Notes | This story is retold in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #11 (September 1960) as "I Wore...the Mask of Drothor!" drawn by Steve Ditko and in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #91 (December 1961) as "The Mask of Morgumm!" drawn by Don Heck. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
Synopsis | Human colonists on an alien world believe that they are being attacked by aliens, who, in fact, are trying to help them. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Christopher Rule |
Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Reprinted | in James Bond (Semic Press AB, 1965 series) #21/[1972] (October 3, 1972) [as "Månödlornas byte", Swedish translation]; in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |