Jack Oleck in Marvel Tales and Journey into Mystery

Jack Oleck's writing style is recognizable in the Had-He-But-Known phrasing on the first page of his first story for Atlas's Journey into Mystery: Monty could still think, then...he could still reason...


The main writer for the Atlas fantasy anthologies by this time is Carl Wessler, with rather more stories than Oleck; Wessler's are known from Robin Snyder's transcribing the writer's records in History of the Comics.

Marvel Taleswas cancelled with #159 in the Atlas Implosion in 1957; Journey into Mystery was too, with #47, but was reinstated a year later with a few issues out of inventory (although no Oleck scripts) before the beginning of the proto-Marvel lineup (much more work from Jack Kirby, for one) leading into the monster phase.

Jack Oleck scripts
in Journey into Mystery

Aug/56	#37	The Voice in the Night
Nov/	#40	How Harry Escaped
Dec/	#41	I Switched Bodies
Jan/57	#42	Humans...Keep Out!
Feb/	#43	It's Waiting for Me
Apr/	#45	What Happened to Harrison
May/	#46	Voodoo
June/	#47	Bring Back My Body
		He Sits in the Fog!

inMarvel Tales

July/56	#148	The Despot
Aug/	#149	The Thief
Nov/	#152	When Mongorr Appeared
Dec/	#153	It Can't Be Done!
		The Last Man Alive
Feb/57	#155	Man in a Trance
Mar/	#156	Forbidden...Keep Out!
Apr/	#157	The Man Who Was Replaced
		The Man Who Changed
Aug/	#159	The Last Look