| Issue | #75 |
| Published | December 1961 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in September 1961 (September 19 according to Bob Bailey, September 26 according to Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website). This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. |
| Characters | Lo-Karr; Lucius P. Gregory |
| Genre | monsters; occult |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | Cover inker credit from Bob Bailey (2 September 2005). Confirmed by Nick Caputo (June 30, 2006). |
| Reprinted | in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #4 [top part of cover] |
| Characters | Lo-Karr |
| Synopsis | As international tensions mount, an alien lands and demonstrates its power before leaving, promising to return with an army. The world powers set aside their differences to prepare to defend themselves, but the alien was a robot created by a scientist hoping to inspire this reaction. |
| Genre | monsters |
| Script | Larry Lieber; Stan Lee ? (plot) |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | The last page includes an advertisement for the Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Kirby. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Script added by Bob Bailey, 2 September 2005 (Per Sandell ed.) |
| Reprinted | in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #4 (July 1971) |
| Characters | Monangahela Munroe |
| Synopsis | The first explorer on Venus is caught in an old bear trap, but he is able to use the wildlife to call for help. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. All future reprints of "The Hills of Venus" used this title. Sequence added by Bob Bailey, 2 September 2005 (Per Sandell ed.) |
| Reprinted | from Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #6 (October 1961) [originally titled "The Hills of Venus"]; in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #32 (June 1962); in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #104 (January 1963) |
| Characters | Lucius P. Gregory |
| Synopsis | A homebuilder that uses shoddy materials and unskilled labor gets his comeuppance when he builds a home for himself out of the wood from haunted trees. He tries and fails several times to drive the ghost out of the house, but stubbornly refuses to admit failure. He bankrupts himself when he tries to move the entire house away from the ghost not realizing that the house itself is the ghost. |
| Genre | occult |
| Script | Larry Lieber ? (script); Stan Lee ? (plot) |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | Script added by Bob Bailey, 2 September 2005 (Per Sandell ed.) |
| Reprinted | in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #5 (October 1966); in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #4 (July 1971) |
| Characters | Franz Kopnik; Katrina Steuben; Mordoo |
| Synopsis | A man falls in love with a middle-aged woman on vacation, but wants a younger wife. He convinces her to let a gypsy magician make her young again, but once she's young and pretty she leaves him for the young attractive gypsy. |
| Genre | occult |
| Script | Larry Lieber ? (script); Stan Lee ? (plot) |
| Pencils | Paul Reinman |
| Inks | Paul Reinman |
| Notes | Script added by Bob Bailey, 2 September 2005 (Per Sandell ed.) |
| Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #9 (May 1971) |
| Characters | Bruno |
| Synopsis | A scientist's assistant is determined to find if his time machine that sends objects into the past or future. He steals some gold ingots from the office and steps into the ray, knowing that he can never return to the present. When his journey ends, Earth is so primitive that he is cut off from all humanity, and he realizes that he still doesn't know whether the machine sends things into the past or future since it could be either the dawn or the end of time. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee (signed) |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko (signed) |
| Inks | Steve Ditko (signed) |
| Letters | Artie Simek ? |
| Notes | The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #9 (May 1971) |