Mission: MARVEL

Interior panel from Journey Into Mystery #92, by Joe Sinnott, Stan Lee and Robert Bernstein

Pure insanity.

MISSION: MARVEL ENTRY #54

Journey Into Mystery #92, May 1963, written by Robert Bernstein (lead), Stan Lee (lead) and Larry Lieber (backup), penciled by Joe Sinnott (lead), Steve Ditko (backup) and Paul Reinman (backup)

1st Appearance:

Frigga, Thor’s step-mother

MISSION: MARVEL ENTRY #53

Tales of Suspense #41, May 1963, written by Stan Lee and Robert Bernstein (lead), penciled by Jack Kirby (lead) and Steve Ditko (backup), written and penciled by Larry Lieber (backup)

1st Appearance:

An unfortunate character named Dr. Strange, with ill-defined powers who will quickly be rendered irrelevant and unusable by another character named Dr. Strange.

Letters page from Fantastic Four #14

Stan says that they’re going to start publishing mail relating to the superhero stories in their anthology comics (Tales to Astonish, Tales of Suspense, etc.) in the FF letters page. Odd!

Ad from Fantastic Four #14

This is the first advertisement drawing attention to the new cover dress for all the Marvel Comics, including the first time “Marvel Comics” was regularly put on the covers, as well as the iconic corner boxes that would be on comics for the next thirty-five plus years.