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Issue Details

Issue #15
Published January 1961
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in August 1960. 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 - "The Blip!"

Characters The Blip
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008)

7 page story "I Learned the Dread Secret of the Blip!"

Characters The Blip
Synopsis A power drain and radar anomaly is traced to a creature made of electricity hiding in a cave. It claims to be a friendly visitor, but humans attack it and it flees into space.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (January 1971); in Giant-Size Man-Thing (Marvel, 1974 series) #2 (November 1974); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008)

2 page text story "The Free Ride"

Characters Chuck; Gus Farrell; Capt. Zingle
Synopsis A teenager working at an amusement park to help support his family is kind to a mysterious boy, and finds himself rewarded with a real trip to outer space.
Genre science fiction
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #63 (June 1958)

6 page story "I Dared Enter the Forbidden World!"

Characters Derek; John; Monga; Uxmal; Antogg
Synopsis A white game hunter finds the legendary elephant's graveyard, hoping to make a fortune in ivory. He discovers that elephants were introduced to Earth by Martians, who use the graveyard as a gathering point for the ivory, and won't let him leave.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Notes Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (January 1971); in Giant-Size Man-Thing (Marvel, 1974 series) #2, (November 1974); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008)

5 page story "I Am the Invisible!"

Characters Prof. Karlos Konak; Zuka
Synopsis A man threatens a witch unless she hands over two lenses which will make him invisible. She implores him not to try it, but relinquishes the lens. They can be reversed to make the invisible visible once again, but what the man did not expect is that when he becomes invisible to the outside world, the outside world in turn becomes invisible to him.
Genre occult
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Chamber of Darkness (Marvel, 1969 series) #8 (December 1970); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008)

5 page story "I Defied the Curse of Tut-Ah-Anka!"

Synopsis A criminal hides from the police in an old Egyptian tomb, ignoring the warning of a curse. He not only escapes the police, but has a run of luck that makes him rich and happy. Or so he thinks, as the gas in the tomb drove him mad and he is delusional in an Egyptian hospital.
Genre horror
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Notes Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (January 1971); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008)