| Issue | #81 |
| Published | February 1961 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in September 1960. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Some information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers, Dr. Michael J. Vassallo, and others via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Characters | Scarecrow (irradiated monster) |
| Genre | monsters |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Characters | Scarecrow (irradiated monster); Jarvis Cragstone; Albert Smith; Martha Smith |
| Synopsis | A landlord cheats poor farmers out of their land in order to sell it for nuclear tests. Radiation animates the farmers' abandoned scarecrow which tracks down the man and forces him to give his profits to the farmers before its life ebbs away. |
| Genre | monsters |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Characters | Tommy Pidgeon; Goober Jones; Rosie; Uncle Pete |
| Synopsis | Tommy's uncle returns from a space journey needing to re-learn how to walk on earth instead of floating. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Joe Maneely |
| Inks | Joe Maneely |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. |
| Reprinted | from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #46 (August 1956) |
| Characters | Joe Farrow |
| Synopsis | A criminal steals beans that grow into a beanstalk leading to the land of giants. He tries to rob a castle, but he is caught and imprisoned with other criminals, lured by the same beans to become slave laborers for the giant. |
| Genre | occult |
| Pencils | Don Heck |
| Inks | Don Heck |
| Notes | Inspired by "Jack and the Beanstalk". |
| Characters | Simon Burr |
| Synopsis | A scientist's assistant travels to the past with a gun to rule a pre-technology world. Instead he finds that time is a loop, and when he travels back too far he finds himself a thousand years in the future, helpless before the psychic powers of future humans. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Paul Reinman |
| Inks | Paul Reinman |
| Notes | Narrated in the first person. |
| Characters | Hans Vogez |
| Synopsis | A corrupt police chief uses fines to fund a giant prison in order to increase his prestige. He jails a passerby for no reason, but is shocked to find that he is an alien leader whose followers take the whole prison when they cannot open his cell, leaving the chief disgraced. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Reprinted | in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #5 (August 1974) [as "The Thing in Cell 13"] |