| Issue | #1 |
| Published | December 1958 |
| Frequency | bi-monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in September 1958. 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. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Christopher Rule |
| Letters | Art Simek |
| Notes | Letterer credit of Art Simek supplied by Tom Orzechowski (3/6/05). |
| Synopsis | A man discovers that flying saucers are real, but are not actually ships, but alien beings able to travel through space on their own. They are often forced to crashland on Earth because of local radiation, and leave as quickly as possible. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Christopher Rule |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Notes | This story is retold in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #101 (October 1962) as "The Impossible Spaceship!" drawn by Don Heck. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Letterer credit of Art Simek supplied by Tom Orzechowski (3/6/05). |
| Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #32 (November 1974) |
| Synopsis | A man lies, cheats and steals to find the abominable snowman, and eventually discovers a lama who knows the secret of the snowman and is forced to summon it. He discovers that the snowman was a greedy man like him, cursed to wear a bestial form until another took his place. He is horrified as the snowman becomes human and he is transformed into a monster. |
| Genre | occult |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Notes | This story is retold in Strange Tales (Marvel 1951 series) #72 (December 1959) as "I Am the Abominable Snowman!" drawn by Paul Reinman, and in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #13 (November 1960) as "I Found the Abominable Snowman!" drawn by Jack Kirby. In each retelling there is a somewhat different mechanism by which the wicked protagonist becomes the snowman. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Letterer credit of Art Simek supplied by Tom Orzechowski (3/6/05). |
| Reprinted | in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #2 (1963); in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #13 (October 1974); in Thrilling Science Fiction (AC, 1998 series) #2 (1999) |
| Characters | Harry |
| Synopsis | A strange package is left at a man's door and it turns out to be the ship of an alien ambassador on his way to Mars. He helps the ambassador on his way, but then wakes up from the dream. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Reed Crandall |
| Inks | Reed Crandall |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. Thanks to the Lewis Wayne Gallery and Terry Hooper for information on this story. |
| Reprinted | from Mystical Tales (Marvel, 1956 series) #6 (April 1957) |
| Characters | Thorne |
| Synopsis | A man creates a robot so advanced that it has the capacity to think and feel as a human. He entrusts his son to it, but when the robot is damaged while defending the child from alien abductors, the scientist's suspicious wife is convinced that it malfunctioned, and he abandons the project. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Bob Powell |
| Inks | Joe Sinnott |
| Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Pencils credit switched from 'Joe Sinnott' to 'Bob Powell' per Tom Orzechowski error report (3/6/05). |
| Reprinted | in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #2 (1963) |
| Characters | Adam; Eve |
| Synopsis | When the humans of a peaceful future discover a planet where they could live five times as long they all leave Earth, except for one couple who are too attached to Earth's heritage and are left on the abandoned world to refound civilization: Adam and Eve. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee ? |
| Pencils | Don Heck |
| Inks | Don Heck |
| Letters | Art Simek |
| Notes | This story is retold in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #90 (November 1961) as "A Thousand Years Later..." by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko and in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #39 (March 1963) as "The Last Rocket!" drawn by Gene Colan. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Letterer credit of Art Simek supplied by Tom Orzechowski (3/6/05). Uncertain Stan Lee script credit on the basis of his signature on the later retelling. |