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Issue Details

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.

Cover Details - "I Hear It Howl in the Swamp!"

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)

5 page story "I Hear It Howl in the Swamp!"

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)

2 page text story "Lady Luck"

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)

5 page story "I Was Captured by the Cyclops!"

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)

4 page story "The Mutants and Me!"

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)

4 page story "Who Hides Beneath My Mask?"

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)

5 page story "The Luna Lizards Had Me Trapped!"

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)