| Issue | #3 |
| Published | March 1971 |
| Frequency | bi-monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.25 USD |
| Pages | 68 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Notes | The artwork is a variant of the original cover from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #88 (September 1961) |
| Characters | Frank Johnson (introduction); Yucoya-Tzin (introduction, not named); Zzutak (introduction, origin); Zzutak's enemy (introduction, origin) |
| Synopsis | An American comic book artist is given magic paints which make whatever is painted with them real. He is compelled to go to Mexico and paint a monster as planned by the Aztec priest who gave him the paints. When he is ordered to paint more monsters, the artist uses his willpower to make his next monster fight the first, causing the temple to collapse on both monsters, giving the priest amnesia and ending his threat. |
| Genre | monsters |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Notes | Narrated in the first person. Frank Johnson, Yucoya-Tzin, Zzutak and Zzutak's enemy all next appear in Fantastic Four Unlimited (Marvel, 1993 series) #7 (September 1994). |
| Reprinted | from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #88 (September 1961) |
| Characters | Hugo Barge; Korumbu |
| Genre | horror |
| Script | Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ? |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Reprinted | from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #64 (January 1961) |
| Characters | Karl Krumm; Monstro |
| Synopsis | A star acrobat is jealous of a popular gorilla at his circus and torments it. Finally, he arranges for the gorilla to break free so that it will be shot, but it has enough strength left to swing out on the trapeze to get revenge. |
| Genre | animal |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
| Pencils | Paul Reinman |
| Inks | Paul Reinman |
| Letters | Art Simek |
| Reprinted | from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #92 (May 1963) |
| Characters | Gregory "Greedy" Grundy |
| Synopsis | A greedy landlord is captured by a time traveler who maintains a collection of 'dolls' consisting of miniaturized heartless people from different eras. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Letters | Art Simek |
| Reprinted | from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #94 (July 1963) |
| Characters | Walter Johnson; Thomas Blake |
| Synopsis | Two scientists working on a time machine have differing opinions about the possibility of traveling into the future. When their attempt to do so seems to take them to the stone age, they believe they have proved travel into the future impossible, not suspecting that they actually saw the world after the destruction of civilization by war. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Joe Sinnott |
| Inks | Joe Sinnott |
| Notes | Narrated in the second person. |
| Reprinted | from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #69 (June 1959) |
| Characters | Maj. Ford |
| Synopsis | An astronaut is sent into orbit in a tiny sphere without communication. He sees a monster trying to claw its way in and panics, signalling ground control to bring him back. They think that it was a hallucination, but they find a broken claw on the spacecraft. |
| Genre | horror |
| Script | Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ? |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Notes | Narrated in the second person. |
| Reprinted | from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #12 (October 1960) |
| Characters | Albert Poole |
| Synopsis | A scientist makes himself able to walk on water in order to steal secret military plans from a ship. But when he returns to the shore he finds that he now sinks on land. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ? |
| Pencils | Paul Reinman |
| Inks | Paul Reinman |
| Notes | Narrated in the first person. |
| Reprinted | from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #12 (October 1960) |
| Characters | Joey Clark |
| Synopsis | A young boy prefers an old wooden toy soldier to more modern toys. His friends make fun of the toy, but when they are threatened by a bear the soldier seems to drive it off with its rifle, and from then on they all love toy soldiers. |
| Genre | fantasy |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Reprinted | from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #88 (September 1961) |
| Characters | Rorgg; Tim; Frank; Ann |
| Synopsis | Rorgg invades a small New Mexico town and our boy hero kills him dead with a spray can of DDT. |
| Genre | monsters |
| Script | Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ? |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | Narrated in the first person. |
| Reprinted | from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #64 (January 1961) |