1961
IN THIS YEAR:
AMAZING ADULT FANTASY
7
AMAZING ADVENTURES (VOL. I)
1-6
FANTASTIC FOUR (VOL. I)
1
JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY (VOL. I)
64-75
KID COLT OUTLAW
96
RAWHIDE KID
20
STRANGE TALES (VOL. I)
80-91
TALES OF SUSPENSE (VOL. I)
13-24
TALES TO ASTONISH (VOL. I)
15-26
TWO-GUN KID
52
JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY (VOL. I) 64 price $.10 1/61
"I Dared
Battle Rorgg, King of the Spider-Men" "I Found the
Lair of the Lizard Men" "I Must Find Korumbu" "Who
Is The Ape Man?"
BY: Stan Lee / Jack
Kirby, Steve Ditko, Don Heck
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense
stories.
KID COLT OUTLAW 96 price $.10 1/61
"Beware
of Montana Joe" "Return of the Bad Man" "Tragedy on the Trail"
BY: Stan Lee / Jack
Kirby (Keller), Dick Ayers
PC: Kid Colt, Clay Harding ~ Montana Joe.
COM: Series is a non-MU old west storyline.
STRANGE TALES (VOL. I) 80 price $.10 1/61
"What?
What? What Was Gargantus?" The Things From Dimension X!" The
Door They Dare Not Open" "Trapped in a Room of Shadows"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack
Kirby, Steve Ditko, Don Heck,
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
TALES OF SUSPENSE (VOL. I) 13 price $.10 1/61
"Elektro!" "The Demon in the Dungeon" "I Lived a
Million Years" "When the Earth Vanished"
BY: Stan Lee / Jack
Kirby, Steve Ditko, Don Heck,
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
TALES TO ASTONISH (VOL. I) 15 price $.10 1/61
"I
Learned the Dread Secret of the
Blip!" "I Am The Invisible" "I Dared Enter The Forbidden World!"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack
Kirby, Dick Ayers, Steve Ditko, Don Heck,
COM:
Electro prototype . All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY (VOL. I) 65 price $.10 2/61
"I
Am the Brute That Walks" "Kragoo" "Fear In The Night" "
BY: Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Dick Ayers.
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
RAWHIDE KID 20 price $.10 2/61
"Shoot-out with
Blackjack Borden"
BY: Stan Lee / Jack
Kirby (Keller), Dick Ayers
PC: Rawhide Kid, Apache, Randy, ~
Blackjack Borden
COM: Feature is a non-MU old west story.
STRANGE TALES (VOL. I) 81 price $.10 2/61
"The
Scarecrow Walks" "A Giant There Was" "I Went Too Far Back"
"The Thing in The Cell"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko.
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
TALES OF SUSPENSE (VOL. I) 14 price $.10 2/61
"I Created the
Colossus" "I Am Gorak"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko
PC:
It, the Living Colossus (Robert
O'Bryan)
COM: All other features are non-MU strange suspense
stories. Cover by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers.
TALES TO ASTONISH (VOL. I) 16 price $.10 2/61
"Here
Comes Thorr, the
Unbelievable!" "I Am the Victim of the Sorcerer"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Dick Ayers, Don Heck.
COM: Stone
Men prototype. All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
TWO-GUN KID 52 price $.10 2/61
" "
BY: Larry Lieber /
Jack Kirby
PC: Two-Gun Kid (Clay Harding), ~
COM: Title is a non-MU old west story.
JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY (VOL. I) 66 price $.10 3/61
"Return of the
Hulk!" "The Black Ray" "The Thing Behind the Wall"
BY: Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Dick Ayers
PC: Xemnu
the Titan
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
STRANGE TALES (VOL. I) 82 price $.10 3/61
"The Thing
Called....It!" "It Lives!" "The
World Beyond" "Fangs
of the Monster"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Don Heck, Steve Ditko
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
TALES OF SUSPENSE (VOL. I) 15 price $.10 3/61
"Behold Goom!
The Thing from Planet X" "I Am the Living Ghost" "Moomboo"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers, Steve Ditko
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
TALES TO ASTONISH (VOL. I) 17 price $.10 3/61
"Vandoom,
the Man Who Made a Creature" "Beware the Ghastly Glass"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Don Heck, Dick Ayers.
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY (VOL. I) 67 price $.10 4/61
"Gruto"
"The Black Clock" "The Last Voyage of Captain Kragg"
BY: Lee/Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Don Heck.
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
STRANGE TALES (VOL. I) 83 price $.10 4/61
"Masquerade
Party" "From out of the
Black Pit Came...Grogg!" "The Awesome Vengeance of Grogg" "The Menace of Shandu!"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers, Don Heck, Steve Ditko
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
TALES OF SUSPENSE (VOL. I) 16 price $.10 4/61
"The Thing
Called Metallo!" "Nightmare" "The Hands of Hogarr"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers,
COM: Iron
Man prototype. All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
TALES TO ASTONISH (VOL. I) 18 price $.10 4/61
"Gorgilla
Strikes Again" "Monsteroso" "Robot on the Rampage"
BY: Stan Lee / Jack Kirby,
Steve Ditko, Dick Ayers
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY (VOL.I) 68 price $.10 5/61
"Spragg,
Conqueror of the Human Race!" "Where Walks the Ghost" "The Man From
Mars"
BY: Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Don Heck, Dick Ayers.
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
STRANGE TALES (VOL. I) 84 price $.10 5/61
"Magneto!"
"Twelve Silent men" "They Met on Mars"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko.
COM:
Magneto prototype. All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
TALES OF SUSPENSE (VOL. I) 17 price $.10 5/61
"Googam, Son of
Goom!!" "There is Something Strange About Mr. Jones"
"What Lurks in the Mountain?"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
TALES TO ASTONISH (VOL. I) 19 price $.10 5/61
"Rommbu"
"The Terrible Trap"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Dick Ayers
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
Cover by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers.
AMAZING ADVENTURES (VOL. I) 1 price $.10 6/61
"Torr" "Midnight in the Wax Museum"
"I Am the Fantastic Dr. Droom"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Dick Ayers
PC:
Dr. Droom
COM: 1st and 2nd features non-MU strange suspense stories. 1st
Marvel super hero. Origin Dr. Droom.
JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY (VOL. I) 69 price $.10 6/61
"I
Was Captured By....Korilla!" "Secret of....Korilla"
"The Iron Giant" When Darkness Falls"
BY: Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Dick Ayers
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
STRANGE TALES (VOL. I) 85 price $.10 6/61
"The Return of
Gargantus" "The Man Who Fell" "The Ape Man"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense
stories.
TALES OF SUSPENSE (VOL. I) 18 price $.10 6/61
"The
Mysterious Mr. P." "Kraa the
Unhuman" "Enter: the Robot" "Back From the
Dead"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers, Steve Ditko
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
TALES TO ASTONISH (VOL. I) 20 price $.10 6/61
"What
Was X, The Thing That Lived?" One Way Journey"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
Cover by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers.
AMAZING ADVENTURES (VOL. I) 2 price $.10 7/61
"I Led the
Search for Manoo" "The Secret of Manoo" "The World Below" "Rocky's Last Ride"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Dick Ayers
PC: Dr. Droom
COM:
Signed cover by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers. All features are non-MU strange
suspense stories.
JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY (VOL. I) 70 price $.10 7/61
"The Sandman
Cometh!" "A Thousand Years" "The Stone Men"
BY: Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Dick Ayers
COM:
Sandman prototype. All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
STRANGE TALES (VOL. I) 86 price $.10 7/61
"I Created
Mechano" "The Secret of George's Globe" "Beware of Meeks
Bringing Gifts"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
TALES OF SUSPENSE (VOL. I) 19 price $.10 7/61
"The Green
Thing!" "The Haunted Paper" "The Coming of Maaboo"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Don Heck.
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
TALES TO ASTONISH (VOL. I) 21 price $.10 7/61
"It Happened on the 'Silent Screen'" "Trull!
the Inhuman!"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Dick Ayers.
COM: 2nd feature has a Hulk
prototype. All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
AMAZING ADVENTURES (VOL. I) 3 price $.10 8/61
"We Were Trapped
in the Twilight World" "Trapped in the Twilight World" "The Teddy Bear" "Dr.
Droom Meets Zemu"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Dick Ayers
PC: Dr. Droom ~Zemu.
COM: Signed cover by
Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd features are non-MU strange
suspense stories. In the 4th feature:
JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY (VOL. I) 71 price $.10 8/61
"I
Brought Roc Back To Life" The Boy Who Vanished" "The
Painting" "
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko,
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
STRANGE TALES (VOL. I) 87 price $.10 8/61
"The Return of
Grogg" "The Lighthouse From Nowhere" "The Macabre
Mirror"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Don Heck
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
TALES OF SUSPENSE (VOL. I) 20 price $.10 8/61
"Colossus Lives
Again" "The Rocking Horse" "The Bomb"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko
COM: All other features are non-MU strange suspense
stories.
TALES TO ASTONISH (VOL. I) 22 price $.10 8/61
"I
Do Battle With the Crawling Creature" "For Whom the Drum Beats"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
Cover by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers.
AMAZING ADVENTURES (VOL. I) 4 price $.10 9/61
"I Am Robot X"
"Who or What Was the Bootblack?" "What Lurks Within?"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Dick Ayers
PC: Dr. Droom
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY (VOL. I) 72 price $.10 9/61
"The
Glob" "The Patient in Room 3D" "Will This Be The End of the World?"
BY: / Paul Reinman, Steve Ditko
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
Cover by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers.
STRANGE TALES (VOL. I) 88 price $.10 9/61
"Zzutak, the
Thing that Shouldn't Exist" "The Lifeless Man"
"Punishment"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
TALES OF SUSPENSE (VOL. I) 21 price $.10 9/61
"This
is Klagg" "Whose Face is in the Mirror?" "The Man from Tomorrow"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
Cover by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers.
TALES TO ASTONISH (VOL. I) 23 price $.10 9/61
"The
Unbelievable Menace of Moomba!" "The Menace That Was...Moomba"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers, Steve Ditko
COM: Single multi-chapter feature is a non-MU strange suspense story.
AMAZING ADVENTURES (VOL. I) 5 price $.10 10/61
"The Escape of.... Monsteroso!" "Monsteroso" "The Watchers" "The Joker"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Don Heck, Steve Ditko, Dick Ayers
PC: Dr.
Droom
COM: First
three features non-MU strange suspense stories.
JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY (VOL. I) 73 price $.10 10/61
"The Spider
Strikes!" "What Lurks on Channel X?" "Menace From
Mars" "One Look Means Doom"
BY: Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Don Heck
COM:
Reverse of Spider-Man's origin. All features are non-MU strange suspense
stories.
STRANGE TALES (VOL. I) 89 price $.10 10/61
"Fin Fang Foom!"
"The Green Things" "The Touch of Midas"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko.
PC:
Fin Fang Foom, Chan.
COM:
Origin of Fin Fang Foom. Chan wakes FFF, tricks him into destroying the
communist invaders, puts him back to sleep at story end. All other features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
TALES OF SUSPENSE (VOL. I) 22 price $.10 10/61
"Beware
of Bruttu" "Only One is Human" "The Anatomy of Nightmare"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers, Steve Ditko
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
TALES TO ASTONISH (VOL. I) 24 price $.10 10/61
"I
Found the Abominable Snowman" "He Waits in the Dark""
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
Cover by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers.
AMAZING ADVENTURES (VOL. I) 6 price $.10 11/61
"Sserpo, the
Creature Who Crushed the Earth" "The Fourth Man" "Krogg"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Paul Reinman, Dick Ayers
PC: Dr.
Droom
COM:
First two features non-MU strange suspense stories. Series continues as AMAZING ADULT FANTASY #7.
FANTASTIC FOUR (VOL. I) 1 price $.10 11/61
"The Fantastic
Four Meet The Mole Man!"
BY: Stan
Lee, Jack Kirby / Jack Kirby, Artie Simek
PC: {Mr.
Fantastic (Reed Richards),
Invisible Girl (Susan Storm),
Human Torch II (Johnny
Storm), the Thing (Benjamin
J. Grimm)}, ~Mole Man
COM: 1st
app. of the Fantastic Four, the
FF signal flare, and Monster Island. The
FF located in Central City, Cal. instead of New York. Origin of the FF.
Thing's first time in hat and trench coat. Team's ID's are still secret.
Johnny's first seen working on a hot rod. FF goes to Monster Isle.
Origin of the Mole Man. Monster Isle explodes and the MM escapes by story
end.
JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY (VOL. I) 74 price $.10 11/61
"The
Thing in the Box" "Midnight in the Wax Museum" "The Mechanical Men"
"Forever Is a Long Time"
BY: Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Don Heck
COM:
Format change from non-MU strange suspense stories to fantasy.
STRANGE TALES (VOL. I) 90 price $.10 11/61
"Orggo
the Unconquerable" "A Thousand Years Later..." "The Inhuman"
"Germ Warfare"
BY: Stan
Lee / Steve Ditko
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
TALES OF SUSPENSE (VOL. I) 23 price $.10 11/61
"I
Entered the Dimension of Doom" "The Creature from the Black Bog"
"Going Down" "The Changeling"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
TALES TO ASTONISH (VOL. I) 25 price $.10 11/61
"I
Was Captured by the Creature from Krogarr!" "Behold Him! He
is a Martian" "Where Lurks the Ghost"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
Cover by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers.
AMAZING ADULT FANTASY 7 price $.12 12/61
"Why Won't They
Believe Me?" "The Last Man on Earth" "Witch-Hunt" "Journey's End" "The Icy
Fingers of Fear"
BY: Stan
Lee / Steve Ditko
COM:
Series continued from AMAZING ADVENTURES (VOL. I) #6. All stories are non-MU
strange suspense stories.
Signed cover by Steve Ditko.
JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY (VOL. I) 75 price $.10 12/61
"Lo-Korr,
Bringer of Doom" "Mr. Gregory and the Ghost" "The Magic of Mordoo"
"The Man Who Lost a World" "
BY: Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Paul Reinman
COM: Last 10 cent
issue. All features are non-MU fantasy stories.
STRANGE TALES (VOL. I) 91 price $.10 12/61
"The
Sacrifice" "The Coming of the Giants" "The Mask of Morgumm"
"The Warning"
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
TALES OF SUSPENSE (VOL. I) 24 price $.10 12/61
"The
Insect Man" "Beware the Ticking Clocks" "Something Lurks in the Fog"
"Long Live the King" "
BY: Stan
Lee / Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Don Heck.
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
TALES TO ASTONISH (VOL. I) 26 price $.10 12/61
"Look
Out!! Here Comes the...Four-Armed Men" "He Walked Through Walls!"
"Dream World"
BY: Stan Lee /
Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko
COM: All features are non-MU strange suspense stories.
Cover by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers.