| Issue | #16 |
| Published | February 1959 |
| Frequency | bi-monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in November 1958. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Characters | John Fox |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Characters | Col. Ken Travers |
| Synopsis | Earth is terrified by the approach of a giant planet, but a military expedition finds that time moves more slowly on this planet, so they will not notice Earth. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Joe Sinnott |
| Inks | Joe Sinnott |
| Notes | Narrated in the first person. Set in the year 2500. |
| Reprinted | in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #2 (1963) |
| Characters | Tony Tipple; Skeets Mulligan; Toodles Murphy |
| Synopsis | A meeting with a strange man gives a boy an unusual way of getting a pet bird, talking to birds. |
| Genre | occult |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. |
| Reprinted | from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #50 (October 1956) |
| Characters | Claude Hicks |
| Synopsis | A man with hay fever releases a hostile genie with plans of conquest from a lamp, but the genie contracts hay fever from his liberator. The genie tries to go to different areas, but after so long in the lamp, he has no resistances to germs and pollen. He decides he was better off in the lamp. |
| Genre | occult |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Notes | Reprint credits from Jeff Cooper (July 7, 2003). |
| Reprinted | in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #15 (November 1974) |
| Characters | Paul Stratton; Terry Mason; Dr. Stone |
| Synopsis | A scientist is convinced that there are microscopic worlds inside microbes. He cannot find one, but if he'd kept looking then he would have found Earth. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Notes | Narrated in the second person. |
| Reprinted | in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #2 (1963) |
| Characters | Luther Zorn; Emma Zorn |
| Synopsis | A physicist invents a time machine, but when it shows an idyllic future it causes people to lose their motivation to improve the world. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Al Williamson |
| Inks | Al Williamson |
| Notes | Narrated in the first person. |
| Characters | John Fox |
| Synopsis | In the year 2000 criminals are reconditioned through virtual reality. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Christopher Rule |
| Notes | Reprint credit from Jeff Cooper (July 7, 2003). |
| Reprinted | in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #2 (July 1963) |