Issue | #59 |
Published | July 1960 |
Frequency | bi-monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in March 1960. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person unless otherwise specified. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
Characters | Shagg |
Genre | monsters |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Characters | Shagg |
Synopsis | An explorer wakes the Sphinx, really a robot warrior called Shagg. Since it was awakened too early, it wipes the memories of his rampage and returns to hibernation. The only evidence left is the explorer’s journal. |
Genre | monsters |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Reprinted | in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (1962) |
Characters | Barney |
Synopsis | A former pilot can't get anyone to believe his story about the fatal radium poisoning he picked up from an alien, and so keeps spreading it. |
Genre | science fiction |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with illustration. |
Reprinted | from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #2 (April 1952) |
Characters | Joe Kane; Charlie Jordon |
Synopsis | A convict escapes from death row and hides in a haunted house in an amusement park. A mysterious figure leads him into hotter and hotter tunnels and he never emerges from the house. |
Genre | occult |
Pencils | Paul Reinman |
Inks | Paul Reinman |
Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Characters | Captain Cork |
Synopsis | A sea captain's love for his wooden figurehead is repaid when it saves his life after an attack by pirates. |
Genre | occult |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Notes | Narrated in the third person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Characters | Igor Grozick |
Synopsis | A Russian spy masquerades as a talking bear in order to embarrass the West when the hoax is revealed. He finds that the radiation which he pretended gave a bear the ability to speak actually transformed him into a bear. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Don Heck |
Inks | Don Heck |
Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |