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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published July 1959
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in March 1959. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "One of Us Is a Martian!"

Characters Geroko
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Chris Rule?
Notes Inker credit by Nick Caputo.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

5 page story "The Invisible Army"

Characters Hendrik Muir; Igor Zetaxas
Synopsis A scientist is forced to work for a dictator but, instead of creating an invisibility ray as ordered, creates a teleportation ray that banishes his top officers and allows a revolution.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Joe Sinnott (signed)
Inks Joe Sinnott (signed)
Notes Narrated in the second person.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

2 page text story "Snowstorm"

Characters Dawson; Mr. Manfredy
Synopsis A hiker lost in the snow meets a scientist who discovered how to transform other metals into gold but lives in isolation so his discovery will not cause turmoil.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration
Reprinted from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #47 (September 1956)

5 page story "One of Our Spacemen Is Missing!"

Characters Lester Wells; Jim Stack; Ralph; Fred; Bob
Synopsis A space explorer ignores his partner's caution and leads a party out into a seemingly safe world. They all disappear, captured by intelligent trees, and the more cautious explorer rescues them.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Christopher Rule
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

4 page story "The Voice of Doom!"

Characters Fred Sanders
Synopsis A ham radio operator believes he is receiving reports of an extraterrestrial battle, but he is actually receiving the thought waves of ants.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Carl Burgos
Inks Carl Burgos
Notes This story was retold as in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #60 (Septemeber 1960) as "I Found the Things From Nowhere", drawn by Jack Kirby. Art credits from Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006).
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

4 page story "Beware of the...Robots!"

Characters Joe Hughes
Synopsis A man writes anti-robot articles about his replacement at a factory by a robot. He becomes a famous writer, and realizes that the robot actually freed him to pursue his true calling.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Al Williamson (signed)
Inks Al Williamson (signed)
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

5 page story "One of Us Is a Martian"

Characters Dave Oren; Geroko; Claire
Synopsis A Martian spy is sent to sabotage a human rocket, but he destroys a toy instead, since Martians are only an inch tall.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Steve Ditko (signed)
Inks Steve Ditko (signed)
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)