| Issue | #18 |
| 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 | Kraa |
| Genre | monsters |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 August 2006). |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006) #2 (2008) |
| Characters | Kraa (introduction, origin) |
| Synopsis | An American teacher investigates the mysterious statues made by one tribe in Africa, and finds that they worship a native mutated into a monster by a Soviet atomic test. The teacher soothes the man's pain with ointment, but before the American can get him to a hospital he dies protecting his helper from a python. |
| Genre | monsters |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Notes | This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Kraa!" (7 pp). Narrated in the first person. Kraa next appears in Nick Fury's Howling Commandos (Marvel, 2005 series) #6 (May 2006). |
| Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #15 (May 1972); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006) #2 (2008) |
| Characters | Billy Anderson; Tom Anderson; Amy Anderson |
| Synopsis | A young boy's father scoffs when his son tries to grow a money tree, but the world is astonished when he succeeds. |
| Genre | occult |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. |
| Reprinted | from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #39 (November 1955) |
| Characters | Pied Piper |
| Synopsis | A mysterious but famous clarinettist is trapped by communists and pressed to become a propaganda mouthpiece. Instead he leads the dictators into the sky, revealing himself as the Pied Piper. |
| Genre | occult |
| Pencils | Don Heck |
| Inks | Don Heck |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006) #2 (2008) |
| Characters | Max Garr |
| Synopsis | A mine foreman is concerned that a new robot may take his job, so he scrambles the wires in its control panel. When a cave-in occurs, the men outside contact the foreman by radio and tell him that the robot was not built to work in the mine, but as a safety measure. All he has to do to escape the collapsed tunnel is turn the robot on, but since he has sabotaged the robot's wiring, all he can do is desperately attempt to find the right connections by accident until his air gives out. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Reprinted | in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #20 (December 1972); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006) #2 (2008) |