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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published 1965
Frequency quarterly
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 72
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby (Fantastic Four, Tales to Astonish, and Journey into Mystery images); Steve Ditko (Amazing Spider-Man image)
Inks George Klein (Fantastic Four image); Steve Ditko (Amazing Spider-Man image); Dick Ayers (Tales to Astonish); George Roussos (Journey into Mystery image)
Colors Stan Goldberg
Notes Three cover reproductions and an image combining a cover and an interior panel.
Reprinted from Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #2; from Amazing Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1963 series) #3; from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #36; from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #97

24 page Fantastic Four story "The Fantastic Four Meet the Skrulls from Outer Space"

Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Colors Stan Goldberg
Reprinted from Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #2 (January 1962)

13 page Ant-Man story "The Challenge of Comrade X"

Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Colors Stan Goldberg
Reprinted from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #36 (October 1962)

5 page Tales of Asgard story "Tales of..... Asgard! Home of the Mighty Norse Gods"

Characters Odin; Surtur (Intro); Ymir (Intro; Origin); Buri (Intro; Origin); Borr (Intro)
Synopsis Story about how Odin and his brothers protected the Earth while waiting for the coming of man.
Genre Superhero; Fantasy
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks George Roussos [as George Bell]
Colors Stan Goldberg
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Origin and first appearance of Ymir and Buri, first appearance of Surtur and Borr.
Reprinted from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #97 (October 1963)

21 page Spider-Man story "Spider-Man versus Doctor Octopus"

Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Colors Stan Goldberg
Letters John Duffy
Notes pg. 8 - Doc Ock calls Spider-Man "Super-Man"
Reprinted from Amazing Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1963 series) #3 (July 1963)