| Issue | #2 |
| Published | 1963 |
| Frequency | annually |
| Cover Price | 0.25 USD |
| Pages | 76 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in June 1963 (at the same time as issues cover-dated August and September 1963). Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Characters | Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Spider-Man |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Sol Brodsky? |
| Notes | Nick Caputo says "Cover inks are not by Ditko, according to Ditko himself. Neither are they by Ayers, according to his record books. I suspect the inking is by Sol Brodsky." |
| Reprinted | in Essential Human Torch (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003) [black & white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | inside front cover |
| Characters | Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Fox [Reynard Slinker] (introduction); Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Deputy Police Inspector Rudd |
| Synopsis | An art thief frames Spider-Man and the Human Torch tries to hunt him down. Spider-Man convinces the Torch of his innocence, and the two track down the thief together. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Notes | Features Spider-Man's first rendezvous with the Torch on top of the Statue of Liberty, which was referenced many times since. |
| Reprinted | in Giant-Size Spider-Man (Marvel, 1974 series) #1 (July 1974); in Essential Human Torch (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003) [black and white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006); in The Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #1 (2007) |
| Notes | Advertises Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1963 series) and Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series). |
| Characters | Adam Clayton (only appearance) |
| Synopsis | A scientist invents a device that allows him to run faster than light, becoming invisible. He uses this ability to anonymously show off, planning to soon reveal his discovery and become rich. However, traveling so fast ages him rapidly, so that after only a few weeks he is elderly and near death. |
| Script | Jack Kirby ? |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Christopher Rule |
| Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #67 (February 1959) |
| Characters | Rick Dugan |
| Synopsis | An interstellar detective takes a cargo pilot's place to find out how ships are being robbed without anyone remembering anything. On an unarmed planet, the natives try to take his cargo and hypnotize him with sound waves, it doesn't work because the detective is deaf. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Don Heck |
| Inks | Don Heck |
| Notes | Narrated in the first person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | from Strange Worlds (Marvel, 1958 series) #2 (February 1959) |
| 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 | Joe Sinnott |
| Inks | Joe Sinnott |
| Notes | Narrated in the first person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | from Strange Worlds (Marvel, 1958 series) #1 (December 1958) |
| Notes | Advertises Sgt. Fury (Marvel, 1963 series) #2 (July 1963). Promotional Blurbs: "First, the Fantastic Four! And NOW in the same inimitable style, by the same writer and artist...ANOTHER group of fabulous characters:" and "Battle action!! Fighting men!! As only the Marvel Comics Groups can present them!" |
| Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | from World of Fantasy (Marvel, 1956 series) #16 |
| Characters | Gyor Kosice; Maria |
| Synopsis | A boy adopted by gypsies refuses to work hard and lives a wasted life. As he reaches middle ages he is given a second chance at life when he is shown a fountain of youth and returned to infancy, to be found and adopted by another gypsy couple. |
| Genre | fantasy |
| Pencils | John Buscema |
| Inks | John Buscema |
| Notes | Narrated in the first person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | from Strange Worlds (Marvel, 1958 series) #3 (April 1959) |
| Characters | Frank Coventry; Sally Lang |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee ? |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Christopher Rule |
| Notes | Narrated in the first person. |
| Reprinted | from Strange Worlds (Marvel, 1958 series) #3 (April 1959) |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Christopher Rule |
| Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | from World of Fantasy (Marvel, 1956 series) #16 |
| Characters | Ogarth; Cnidos |
| Synopsis | The king of Atlantis is convinced that life still exists on the surface and leads an invasion fleet to make war on the world above. He finds that in the centuries since Atlantis sunk the pressures of the sea have made his people tiny as insects compared to surface humans, and they must return beneath the waves. |
| Genre | fantasy |
| Pencils | Dick Ayers |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | Narrated in the first person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | from Strange Worlds (Marvel, 1958 series) #2 (February 1959) |
| Pencils | Joe Sinnott |
| Inks | Joe Sinnott |
| Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | from World of Fantasy (Marvel, 1956 series) #16 |
| Notes | Advertises Fantastic Four Annual (Marvel, 1963 series) #1 (1963). Promotional blurbs: "72 Action-Packed Pages!", "Featuring: All-New! 'Sub-Mariner Finds His Lost Race!' A 37-pg. Saga" and "Crammed full of features, surprises and the world's most colorful super-villains!!" |
| 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 | horror |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Letters | Art Simek |
| Notes | Narrated in the first person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Creative credits from index of original printing. |
| Reprinted | from Strange Worlds (Marvel, 1958 series) #1 (December 1958) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | inside back cover |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | back cover |