| Issue | #74 |
| Published | November 1961 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in August 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Characters | Dan Harper; Bob Crane |
| Genre | monsters; science fiction |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | Inking credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors list, December 2008. Original indexer had not credited an inker. |
| Characters | Dan Harper; Pandora |
| Synopsis | A shipwrecked man meets the legendary Pandora, who tricks him into releasing the demons from her box. Humanity is helpless against the demons, but the man forces Pandora to recall them by dispelling her illusory beauty. |
| Genre | monsters |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Notes | Narrated in the first person. This story is retold in Chamber of Darkness (Marvel, 1969 series) #3 (February 1970) as "Something Lurks on Shadow Mountain" by Roy Thomas and John Buscema. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #30 (September 1974) |
| Characters | Mrs. Gerrity; Tom Gerrity; Officer O'Malley; Logarithm |
| Synopsis | An old-fashioned shopkeeper unwittingly saves the life of a boy from Mechanica when her remedy oil lubricates the gears in his brain. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Marie Severin |
| Inks | Marie Severin |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustrations. |
| Reprinted | from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #54 (April 1957) |
| Characters | Bob Crane |
| Synopsis | An artist falls asleep in a wax museum and after midnight he is awoken by a sound. When he investigates, he finds that the wax figures are really aliens who are observing humans. He flees and summons the police, who attack the aliens with tear gas. The entire wax museum begins to shudder and the whole building lifts off into space. They leave behind a book which states that their intent was to pass along beneficial knowledge, but the humans are too dangerous and perhaps they will return in a thousand years. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Notes | Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Characters | Patrolman Patrick Smith; Z-4 |
| Synopsis | An alien plot to infiltrate Earth with robotic dolls is unwittingly foiled by a police officer trying to get rid of peddlers. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Notes | Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Lee credit noted by Stephane Petit via the GCD Errors list, February 2010. |
| Reprinted | in X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #93 (June 1975) |
| Characters | Luther Kane; Dr. Jonathan Weems |
| Synopsis | A greedy businessman bullies a scientist into giving him a device that can give humans the 1,000-year lifespan of a giant redwood. He ignores the scientist's warnings and uses the ray on himself alone in his mansion, finding to his horror that the ray also renders its subject as immobile as a redwood. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee ? |
| Pencils | Don Heck |
| Inks | Don Heck |
| Notes | Narrated in the first person. This story is a retelling of "I Can Live Forever!" drawn by John Forte, in issue #55 (November 1959). The original has a more sympathetic main character and a happy ending. Stan Lee is tentatively credited as writer on the basis of his plot credit for another version of this story in issue #103 (April 1964). |