Stan, Jack, and Steve - The 1950's. (1958) The Path of History 2 2

[Prince Namor]

ON NEWSSTANDS OCTOBER 1958

Steve Ditko for October also had 3 stories in Charlton's Outer Space #20 (Dick Giordano cover). All written by Joe Gill. 

Story ONE:

 

[Prince Namor]

ON NEWSSTANDS OCTOBER 1958

Steve Ditko for October also had 3 stories in Charlton's Outer Space #20 (Dick Giordano cover). All written by Joe Gill. 

Story TWO:

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ON NEWSSTANDS OCTOBER 1958

Steve Ditko for October also had 3 stories in Charlton's Outer Space #20 (Dick Giordano cover). All written by Joe Gill. 

Story THREE:

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ON NEWSSTANDS OCTOBER 1958

Steve Ditko for October also had 4 stories in Charlton's Rocky Lane’s Black Jack #25 (Maurice Whitman cover). All written by Joe Gill. 

Story ONE:

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ON NEWSSTANDS OCTOBER 1958

Steve Ditko for October also had 4 stories in Charlton's Rocky Lane’s Black Jack #25 (Maurice Whitman cover). All written by Joe Gill. 

Story TWO:

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ON NEWSSTANDS OCTOBER 1958

Steve Ditko for October also had 4 stories in Charlton's Rocky Lane’s Black Jack #25 (Maurice Whitman cover). All written by Joe Gill. 

Story THREE:

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ON NEWSSTANDS OCTOBER 1958

Steve Ditko for October also had 4 stories in Charlton's Rocky Lane’s Black Jack #25 (Maurice Whitman cover). All written by Joe Gill. 

Story FOUR:

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ON NEWSSTANDS OCTOBER 1958

Steve Ditko for October ALSO had 4 stories in Charlton's Space Adventures #26 (Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio cover). All written by Joe Gill. 

Story ONE:

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ON NEWSSTANDS OCTOBER 1958

Steve Ditko for October ALSO had 4 stories in Charlton's Space Adventures #26 (Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio cover). All written by Joe Gill. 

Story TWO:

[Prince Namor]

ON NEWSSTANDS OCTOBER 1958

Steve Ditko for October ALSO had 4 stories in Charlton's Space Adventures #26 (Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio cover). All written by Joe Gill. 

Story THREE:

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ON NEWSSTANDS OCTOBER 1958

Steve Ditko for October ALSO had 4 stories in Charlton's Space Adventures #26 (Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio cover). All written by Joe Gill. 

Story FOUR:

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And finally, Steve Ditko for October also had 2 stories in Charlton's Unusual Tales #14 (Charles Nicholas cover). All written by Joe Gill. 

Story ONE:

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ON NEWSSTANDS OCTOBER 1958

And finally, Steve Ditko for October also had 2 stories in Charlton's Unusual Tales #14 (Charles Nicholas cover). All written by Joe Gill. 

Story TWO:

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ON NEWSSTANDS NOVEMBER 1958

For November Stan Lee wrote:

 

Millie the Model #89 - art by Dan DeCarlo (He still does all but the text story in Millie though...)

Patsy Walker #81 - art by Al Hartley, Stan writes half the stories.

Two Gun Kid #46 - 3 stories with art by Jack Davis

Kid Colt Outlaw #83 - 3 stories with art by Jack Keller

 

The other titles published by Atlas for the month:

Strange Worlds #2

Tales of Suspense #2

Tales to Astonish #2

Worlds of Fantasy #16

Edited August 19, 2022 by Prince Namor

[Prince Namor]

ON NEWSSTANDS NOVEMBER 1958

For November Jack Kirby did a story for Tales of Suspense #2 (Steve Ditko cover), writing it and penciling it (Christopher Rule inks). It's another story that reads exactly as the work he was doing for DC, that Marvel would later claim was a Stan lee plot with a Larry Lieber -script. Reading all of these stories one after the other, its easy to see this is pure Kirby. 

[Prince Namor]

ON NEWSSTANDS NOVEMBER 1958

For November Steve Ditko did the cover and a story for Tales of Suspense #2. Writer unknown. Of course, again, in hindsight Marvel tried to credit Lee with the story in Marvel Masters of Suspense Omnibus. 

[Prince Namor]

ON NEWSSTANDS NOVEMBER 1958

For November Jack Kirby also did a story for World of Fantasy #16 (Carl Burgos, Bob Forgione cover), writing it and penciling it (Christopher Rule inks). Again, It's another story that reads exactly as the work he was doing for DC, that Marvel would later claim was a Stan Lee plot with a Larry Lieber -script. It's not as Kirby-esque as some of the others (though there are plenty of those elements here), but without a Stan Lee signature it's highly doubtful he had anything to do with it.

Odds are he was extremely cautious not to offend Jack (and unnecessarily claiming undue credit this early on would've done it), who he was probably grateful to for convincing Goodman to keep Atlas up and running. 

[Prince Namor]

ON NEWSSTANDS NOVEMBER 1958

For November Steve Ditko did a story for World of Fantasy #16. Writer unknown. Of course, again, in hindsight Marvel tried to credit Lee with the story in Marvel Masters of Suspense Omnibus. 

At the time, I imagine that Stanley was focused on just keep his couple of titles going and was happy letting the creative talent breath some life into the line. 

[Prince Namor]

ON NEWSSTANDS NOVEMBER 1958

For November Jack Kirby also did the cover for Kid Colt Outlaw #83. 

[Prince Namor]

ON NEWSSTANDS NOVEMBER 1958

For November Steve Ditko did the cover and a story for Strange Worlds #2. Writer unknown. Of course, again, in hindsight Marvel tried to credit Lee with the story in Marvel Masters of Suspense Omnibus, but he didn't sign it, so it was written by someone else.