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. |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |