| Issue | #1 |
| Published | June 1961 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in March 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Characters | Torr |
| Genre | monsters |
| Script | Stan Lee ? |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Reprinted | in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #175 (August 1974) [slightly redrawn]; in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007) |
| Characters | Torr; Paul Ramsay; John Carter |
| Synopsis | Paul Ramsay is tried for murdering his friend and can't reveal that an alien had taken over John Carter's body for fear that his revelation will start an invasion. |
| Genre | monsters |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby (signed) |
| Inks | Dick Ayers (signed) |
| Notes | This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Torr!" (7 pp). Some data contributed by Joseph William Marek via the GCD Main List (19 May 2003). Writer credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index. |
| Reprinted | in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #175 (August 1974); in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007) |
| Characters | Tommy; Kitty Blake; Old King Cole |
| Synopsis | Tom is a practical, doubting kind of person, who has no time for flights of fancy. As a child, he never had time for fairy tales and nursery rhymes. Then a young girl invites him to a costume party. He goes to the wrong address and encounters real life fairy tale creatures |
| Genre | occult |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. Data contributed by Joseph Marek via GCD Main List (19 May 2003). Reprint information provided by Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the GCD Main List (19 May 2003). |
| Reprinted | from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #38 (October 1955) |
| Characters | Pierre La Roc |
| Synopsis | Pierre La Roc is a criminal on the run, he climbs in through an open widow to escape the police, and finds himself in a wax museum. He hides as part of one of the exhibits as the police search the place. After the police leave, the wax figures come to life and chase La Roc out of the building, whereupon he then surrenders to the police. Later, a policeman discusses the strange case with a figure in a top hat, who later returns to his place as one of the wax figures in the museum. |
| Genre | occult |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko (signed) |
| Inks | Steve Ditko (signed) |
| Notes | Some data contributed by Joseph Marek via the GCD Main List (19 May 2003). Writer credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index. |
| Reprinted | in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #175 (August 1974); in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007) |
| Characters | Dr. Anthony Droom [later retroactively renamed Doctor Druid] (introduction, origin) |
| Synopsis | In the City Medical Club, a group of doctors is discussing the Tibetan lama who has requested medical attention from a Western physician. Anthony Droom decides to lend a hand. The lama announced that he was fit to replace the aged master in his battle against evil and transforms him into an Asian. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Notes | This is the first Doctor Droom story, Droom was later renamed Doctor Druid retroactively. Some data contributed by Joseph Marek via the GCD Main List (19 May 2003). Writer credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index. |
| Reprinted | in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #19 (December 1976) [as a Doctor Druid story]; in Marvel Masterworks: Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2004 series) #1 (2003); in Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007) |