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

AHEAD TO 1962

JANUARY 1961

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.

FEBRUARY 1961

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.

MARCH 1961

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.

APRIL 1961

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 AyersDon 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.

MAY 1961 

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.

JUNE 1961

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.

JULY 1961

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.

AUGUST 1961

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.

SEPTEMBER 1961

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.

OCTOBER 1961

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.

 NOVEMBER 1961

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.

DECEMBER 1961

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.

GO TO 1962