| Issue | #20 |
| Published | August 1961 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in May 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Characters | Colossus [later called "It, the Living Colossus"] |
| Genre | monsters |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby (signed) |
| Inks | Dick Ayers (signed) |
| Reprinted | in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #25 (September 1973); in Astonishing Tales (Marvel, 1970 series) #24 (July 1974) [as p10: panel 1]; in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008) |
| Characters | Colossus [later called "It, the Living Colossus"]; Bob O'Bryan (introduction, last name not given); Diane Cummings (introduction); Grant Marshall (introduction); Crab-Creatures of Cancrius II; Judy; Frank; Charlie; Ben |
| Synopsis | The crab-creatures of Cancrius II come back to try to take over the earth and begin by taking control of Colossus again. Bob O'Bryan, a scenery designer, comes up with the idea of creating a plaster of paris creature to trick the crab-creatures into taking over. When the crab-creatures foolishly take it over Bob blows it up, destroying them. |
| Genre | monsters |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two untitled parts (6 pp, 7 pp). Colossus last appears in issue #14 (February 1961). Colossus, Bob O'Bryan, Diane Cummings and Grant Marshall all appear next in Astonishing Tales (Marvel, 1970 series) #21 (December 1973). Writer credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index. |
| Reprinted | in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #25 (September 1973); in Astonishing Tales (Marvel, 1970 series) #24 (June 1974) [p5: panel 3, p13: panel 4] in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008) |
| Characters | Chuck; Harry Davis; Dr. Ramsay |
| Synopsis | The weather reporter at a newspaper realizes that the weather is being manipulated somehow in an effort to destroy Earth's crops and helps the government stop the attack. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Joe Maneely |
| Inks | Joe Maneely |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. |
| Reprinted | from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #139 (October 1955) |
| Characters | Hamim |
| Synopsis | A lame boy in a poor asks for a rocking horse from charity, enraging his parents. When their house is destroyed in an earthquake the horse saves the boy, showing the value of love. |
| Genre | occult |
| Pencils | Paul Reinman |
| Inks | Paul Reinman |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008) |
| Synopsis | A threatening object that appears to be a bomb drops from the sky and lands in New York city. The object even emits ticking sounds that lead people to believe they are in imminent danger and so the city the evacuated. The military cordons off the object and just waits for its detonation. Eventually the ticking stops and it rises into the air and disappears. It was recalled to its planet of origin because no living thing touched it in response to its signals, and its makers assume Earth is barren of life, so they send their gift package off to another world. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008) |