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Issue Details

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.

Cover Details - "I Unleashed Shagg upon the World!"

Characters Shagg
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Steve Ditko

7 page story "I Unleashed Shagg Upon the World!"

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)

2 page text story "The Green Man"

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)

6 page story "I Was Trapped in Horror House!"

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.

5 page story "The Revenge of the Wooden Woman"

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.

5 page story "I Am the Beast-Man!"

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.