Marvel Tales

Marvel Tales
Marvel Tales #93 (Aug. 1949), the premiere issue. Cover art by Martin Nodell.
Publication information
Publisher	Atlas Comics
Schedule	Quarterly: #93–97; Bi-monthly: #98–110; Monthly: #111–159
Format	Ongoing
Genre	horror
Publication date	Aug. 1949–Aug. 1957
Number of issues	67
Creative team
Artist(s)	Harry Anderson, Carl Burgos, Bill Everett, Fred Kida, Mike Sekowsky, Syd Shores, Ogden Whitney, Dick Ayers, Gene Colan, Tony DiPreta, Mort Drucker, Russ Heath, Bernard Krigstein, Joe Maneely, Joe Sinnott, Basil Wolverton
Editor(s)	Stan Lee

Marvel Tales
Marvel Tales Annual #1 (1964). Cover art by Jack Kirby & Frank Giacoia, except Spider-Man, by Steve Ditko.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Schedule	Bi-monthly: #3–64 Monthly: #65–291
Format	Ongoing
Genre	superhero
Publication date	July 1966–Nov. 1994
Number of issues	289
Main character(s)	Spider-Man, various

Marvel Tales is the title of three American comic-book series published by Marvel Comics, the first of them from the company's 1950s predecessor, Atlas Comics. It is additionally the title of two unrelated, short-lived fantasy/science fiction magazines.

The first publication using the title was the amateur magazine Marvel Tales, also known as Marvel Tales of Science and Fantasy, published by Fantasy Publications in Everett, Pennsylvania. The magazine ran five issues cover-dated May 1934 – Summer 1935. Despite its reportedly non-professional status, the magazine, which appeared in at least two sizes during its run, published a story by the already established Robert E. Howard, "The Garden of Fear", in issue #2 (July–Aug. 1934), and "The Creator", an early example of religious-themed science fiction by the noted Clifford D. Simak, in #4 (March–April 1935).

The next was a pulp magazine from future Marvel Comics publisher Martin Goodman. Goodman, who published under a variety of corporate names, released five issues of the science fiction magazine Marvel Science Stories (Aug. 1938 – Aug. 1939), which then changed its name to Marvel Tales for two issues (Dec. 1939 & May 1940) under the Red Circle imprint. The title changed again, to Marvel Stories, for two final issues (Nov. 1940 & April 1941).

The story "The Test-Tube Monster" by George E. Clark, in the May 1940 issue of Marvel Tales, was reprinted in the paperback anthology Superheroes (Sphere, 1978), edited by Michel Parry, as an example of an evil superman.