| Issue | #4 |
| Published | July 1959 |
| Frequency | bi-monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in March 1959. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Characters | Darius Wolfe |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Christopher Rule |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
| Characters | Darius Wolf; Miss Smyth; Malcolm Avery |
| Synopsis | A bullying director is kidnapped by Martians using the science fiction movie he's filming as a cover. They're forced to land because of a malfunction, and explain that they'll have to let him go...if one of the actors or crew that he abused tries to rescue him. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Joe Sinnott |
| Inks | Joe Sinnott |
| Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #21 (January 1973); in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #115 (September 2, 1975) [as "Imprigionato dai marziani", Italian translation]; in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
| Characters | Tommy; Kitty Blake; Old King Cole |
| Synopsis | A man with no imagination is invited to a costume party by his girlfriend, but stumbles across real fairy-tale folk instead. |
| Genre | occult |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. |
| Reprinted | from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #38 (October 1955) |
| Characters | Ashley Crane |
| Synopsis | A painter buys a magic brush with the power to make three paintings become real. He makes himself handsome and a famous painter. Finally he makes himself dictator of a European country, but one of his paintings inspires the people to revolt and depose him, leaving him imprisoned. |
| Genre | occult |
| Pencils | Don Heck |
| Inks | Don Heck |
| Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
| Characters | Sydney Burr |
| Synopsis | An inventor accidentally makes time stand still, leaving himself the only person able to move. He robs everyone before restarting time, but it turns out all the frozen people could see what he did and he is arrested. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Notes | Penciler credit and inker credit from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Job number speculative based on other stories in this issue and the lack of any contemporary Marvel story with this number. |
| Reprinted | in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #20 (December 1972); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
| Characters | Alethea |
| Synopsis | A man always drawn to the sea falls in love with a mermaid. When he dives under the water to pursue her, he realizes that he is also a merman, and his yearning for the sea was a yearning for home. |
| Genre | fantasy |
| Pencils | Carl Burgos |
| Inks | Carl Burgos |
| Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Art credits from Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish, formerly Bob Forgione was credited. |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
| Characters | Capt. Racer; Bogane |
| Synopsis | Space pirates get the idea of using an empty space suit floating in space as a decoy to lure in unsuspecting freighters to be ambushed, but an intelligence operative hides in the space suit to signal the space patrol when they get close, and together they apprehend the leader of the space pirates. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko (signed) |
| Inks | Steve Ditko (signed) |
| Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |