XOW Logo
  • Location
    • Home
    • Issue Detail, List Content Items
in for
   
by
Twitter Logo Facebook Logo
Report a Bug Ask for Support Review Site Apply to be an Editor
Issue: The Twilight Zone #1
Publication Date: November 1962
Next Issue Variant Next Base Issue
 
Disclose Detail
Issues: #1 of 92 Issues (122 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand: Gold KeyView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: K. K. Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/09/1962
Volume:
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Cover code: 10016-211. Harris confirmed as editor per his biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics!, Vol 29, No.5, May 2018. First Gold Key issue. No advertisements, all 36 pages are comics or comics-related text material. On-sale date from 1962 Books and Pamphlets, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
  Does this data need corrections? Become an editor.
Disclose Format
Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US; later standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In8
Disclose Reprinted From0
There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets0
 
spacer
Disclose Content Items (8 total)
Disclose Issue Images
Voyage to Nowhere

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Rod Serling (photo inset); Dan Harmon; Roy Corbett; Carlotta Morney
First Line: A girl in distress leads her rescuers on a voyage to nowhere.
Synopsis: Fishermen Dan Harmon and Roy Corbett see a mysterious woman alone in a small sailboat, as a fierce storm hits.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose
Frozen Worlds of Space

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
First Line: Orbiting 500,000,000 miles from the sun, the mighty planet Jupiter has a surface temperature of -200 degrees F.
Synopsis: Illustrated text feature on the planets Jupiter and Saturn.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Five illustrations of the planets Jupiter and Saturn with accompanying text. Focus is on the surface conditions of the two planets. Black and white on inside front cover. This feature is designated as "Twilight Zone", as opposed to those usually attributed to, and copyrighted by, Western Publishing Company.

This feature ties-in with the issue's first comic story "Perilous Journey".
Disclose
Perilous Journey

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Rod Serling (host); Larry Clark; Ron Harrison; snowball-throwing kids, somber little girl [grown woman in mirror]; polar bear; Hal; Bob
First Line: Two skiers, Larry Clark and Ron Harrison, caught in a bad snowstorm, are about to take the only way out -- a quick slide through The Twilight Zone!
Synopsis: While skiing, Larry Clark falls into a seemingly endless hole emerging in a most unusual place.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMystery Comics Digest #3 published May 1972
as Perilous Journey [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Twilight Zone #92 [Yellow Logo] published May 1982
as Perilous Journey [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: In accordance with the “Early Gold Key style”, this story has borderless panels with pastel panel gutters of alternating (by page) green and orange.

Breaking with the “Early Gold Key style”, this story has rounded dialogue balloons.
Disclose
Do Not Touch Exhibit

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Mike Karras
First Line: Keeping one step ahead of the law is an old story for Mike Karras, a small-time hood!
Synopsis: Thief Mike Karras hides from pursuing police in a museum - but takes refuge in the wrong exhibit.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMystery Comics Digest #6 published August 1972
as Do Not Touch Exhibit [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Twilight Zone #92 [Yellow Logo] published May 1982
as Do Not Touch Exhibit [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Rod Serling does not appear in this story. (Inventory, perhaps?) In accordance with the “Early Gold Key style”, this story has rectangular dialogue balloons and borderless panels with pastel panel gutters of pink and blue.

There is no copyright attribution to Western Publishing for this story, as there normally would be for specific stories in future issues that do not include the image and characterization of Rod Serling.
Disclose
Wings of Death

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Sy Jones; Ted Kramer; Ako; vampire owl
First Line: The tiny plane flew low over the jungle, barely missing a fringe of trees.
Synopsis: Two skeptical scientists have a dangerous encounter with a vampire owl.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMystery Comics Digest #6 published August 1972
as Wings of Death [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Twilight Zone #92 [Yellow Logo] published May 1982
as Wings of Death [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose
Voyage to Nowhere

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Rod Serling (host); Dan Harmon; Roy Corbett; Carlotta Morney; innkeeper; two constables
First Line: For Dan Harmon and Roy Corbett, this is no ordinary fishing trip! -- They are about to make the catch of their career -- in The Twilight Zone!
Synopsis: Fishermen Dan Harmon and Roy Corbett see a mysterious woman, in half-century old clothing, alone in a small sailboat ten miles out at sea. A fierce storm hits and the sailboat is swept into a towering reef. The sailboat and the woman disappear without a trace. Roy becomes increasingly obsessed with finding her.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMystery Comics Digest #3 published May 1972
as Voyage to Nowhere [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Twilight Zone #92 [Yellow Logo] published May 1982
as Voyage to Nowhere [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Cover story.
Disclose
Custer's Last Stand

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Lieut. Col. George Custer; Comanche (horse)
First Line: In 1876, Lieut. George Custer led five troops of the Seventh Cavalry in an attack on Indian hostiles camped on the Little Big Horn in Montana.
Synopsis: Illustrated text feature on Custer's Last Stand.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Five illustrations of the Battle of the Little Bighorn and its aftermath with accompanying text. Black and white on inside back cover. This feature is designated as "Twilight Zone", as opposed to those usually attributed to, and copyrighted by, Western Publishing Company.

This feature ties-in with the issue's second comic story "Do Not Touch Exhibit".
Disclose
Twilight Zone Pin-Up No. 1

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Dan Harmon; Roy Corbett; Carlotta Morney
Synopsis: Fishermen Dan Harmon and Roy Corbett see a mysterious woman alone in a small sailboat, as a fierce storm hits.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Color on back cover. Pin-up. The front cover image is repeated on the back cover, sans logo, the Rod Serling photo inset, and all cover copy.

Site designed and hosted by XOWTech, Inc..
Any questions or problems with this site should be directed to REMOVE-webmaestro-THESE@xowcomics.com.

XOW, XOWComics.com, XOWTech and XOWTech.com are registered trademarks of XOWTech, Inc.
© XOWTech, Inc., 2010 - 2024. All rights reserved.

Some data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.