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I Created the Colossus

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

Character(s): Colossus [later "It, the Living Colossus"]

First Line: Flee for your lives!

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: According to George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index #7B this cover is reprinted on page 9 panel 3 of the story in Astonishing Tales #24.

Chapter One: I Created the Colossus!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

Character(s): Colossus [later "It, the Living Colossus"] (introduction, also in flashback, origin); Ivan Petrovski (also in flashback); Boris Petrovski (flashback)

First Line: This mind-staggering tale is a work of pure fiction!

Synopsis: A Russian dissident is forced by his loyal brother to build a giant statue glorifying the USSR. An alien crash lands and fuses with the statue for protection, animating it. When it's attacked, it defeats the entire Soviet military on land, sea, and air. The alien’s companions come to Earth to retrieve him and the sculptor claims that the statue coming to life was a judgement against dictatorship, frightening the regime.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Job Number: V-57

Notes: Possible Lee plot; Lieber script. George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index credits Stan Lee solo. The last page asks for feedback on longer stories, directing letters to "Editor, Journey Into Mystery". Colossus next appears in issue #20 (August 1961).

The Comic

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy, occult

Character(s): Stan Wepp

First Line: Stan Wepp stood before the lights...

Synopsis: A bored television comedian is mysteriously transported back to the small mining town and small theatres that he loves.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: J-214

Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).

Job number corrected by NaturalChaos via the GCD Error Tracker.

Chapter Two: The Colossus Lives!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

Feature(s): Colossus

Character(s): Colossus [later "It, the Living Colossus"] (flashback); Ivan Petrovski (flashback); Boris Petrovski (flashback)

First Line: Frightened by the gunfire and shouting, the alien-controlled Colossus went on...

Synopsis: The Colossus escapes from the army and Boris takes the opportunity to attack the regime by declaring that after he built the statue a voice came from the beyond saying that it was time for dictators to be brought to task and power-mad rulers to be halted. Once away from the army the Colossus comes back and destroys a submarine and the war ministry decides to destroy it with a hydrogen bomb.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #17 (June 1972); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2

Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Job Number: V-35

Notes: Story is pages 11-14, 16-17 of comic (pages numbered 7 to 12).

Chapter Three: The Power of the Colossus!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Colossus

Character(s): Colossus [later "It, the Living Colossus"] (flashback); Ivan Petrovski (flashback); Boris Petrovski (flashback)

First Line: With the news of the impending hydrogen explosion, my brother saw...

Synopsis: The Colossus flies and manages to destroy the plane with the hydrogen bomb. It then lands and another spaceship appears. The crab-like creature leaves the Colossus and goes home. Boris takes this chance to tell his brother Ivan that his Government must change or the Colossus will come back to life again. The Government changes and the Colossus stands guard to make sure that justice and peace will continue in the land.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #17 (June 1972); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2

Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Job Number: V-35

Notes: Story is pages 18, 20-24 of comic (pages numbered 13 to 18). The last page asks for feedback on longer stories, directing letters to "Editor, Journey Into Mystery, 655 Madison Ave., N.Y.C. 1, N.Y.". Colossus next appears in issue #20 (August 1961).

I Am... Gorak!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy, occult

Character(s): Gorak

First Line: All is silent!

Synopsis: A famous magician is enraged when his power is questioned, and he reveals that the whole world is an illusion, and only he is real. He even confronts the reader, but fades away as the story ends.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-45

Notes: The last panel shows the last 2 pages of the story in miniature. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).