| Issue | #86 |
| Published | July 1961 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in April 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Some information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers, Dr. Michael J. Vassallo, and others via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Characters | Mechano |
| Genre | monsters |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Characters | Mechano; Mr. Hopkins; Tommy Briggs |
| Synopsis | A giant robot goes out of control and attacks people, but its creators try to prevent the authorities from destroying it. They encounter a group of alien invaders who were not prepared to face a robot and are driven away, moments before the police arrive and blast Mechano to bits. |
| Genre | monsters |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Mechano" (7 pp). |
| Characters | Chauncey; Zeke; Muscles Magee |
| Synopsis | A scrawny man is given a magic candy bar that confers great strength, but he discovers that he already posesses more strength than he suspects. |
| Genre | occult |
| Pencils | Joe Maneely |
| Inks | Joe Maneely |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. |
| Reprinted | from Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #54 (October 1956) |
| Characters | Georgie |
| Synopsis | A clumsy boy has a globe which seems to mirror damage done to it in the real world. When the globe is smashed a mysterious force intervenes and a far away dead world explodes. |
| Genre | occult |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Characters | Walter Johnson |
| Synopsis | Aliens arrive on Earth and give Earth advanced devices that eliminate poverty and conflict. A journalist forces one of them to admit at gunpoint on the air that they are planning an invasion. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Sol Brodsky |
| Notes | Narrated in the first person. The title is a reference to the saying "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts," which comes from the story of the Trojan Horse. |