| Issue | #13 |
| Published | January 1961 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in August 1960. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person unless otherwise specified. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Characters | Elektro |
| Genre | monsters |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #22 (July 1973); Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008) |
| Characters | Elektro (introduction, origin); Wilbur Poole |
| Synopsis | A scientist creates a computer so sophisticated that it can out think human beings. It hypnotizes the scientist into building it a huge robot body so that it can move and threaten human cities to conquer them. As it gets further from the scientist, the hypnosis fades, and the scientist regains his own will. He rushes Elektro, and enters the robot frame from a small door in its heel, and removes the power source, thus saving humanity. |
| Genre | monsters |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | Narrated in the third person. Elektro next appears in Marvel Monsters: Fin Fang 4 (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005). |
| Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #22 (July 1973); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008) |
| Characters | Dr. Title; Douglas Jenks |
| Synopsis | A government agent retrieves a classified microfilm stolen to be given to enemy agents, and is helped by a magic bridge. |
| Genre | spy; occult |
| Pencils | John Severin |
| Inks | John Severin |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. |
| Reprinted | from Adventure Into Mystery (Marvel, 1956 series) #7 (May 1957) |
| Synopsis | A novelist rents a castle in Transylvania, where the locals believe a demon lives. He discovers that the creature is a lost alien child, and its parents cure his limp as a reward for helping it get home. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Don Heck |
| Inks | Don Heck |
| Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #22 (July 1973); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008) |
| Synopsis | An Asian tyrant bleeds his subjects dry to build a suspended animation machine and avoid nuclear war. He sleeps for a million years, but when he emerges humanity has abandoned Earth and he faces a harsh and primitive world. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee ? |
| Pencils | Paul Reinman |
| Inks | Paul Reinman |
| Notes | This is a retelling of "The Man In the Iron Box!" drawn by Carl Burgos from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #69 (June 1959). Stan Lee is speculatively credited as writer on the basis of another retelling of this story. |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008) |
| Synopsis | Tiny alien invaders decide to detonate their ultimate bomb thinking that unobserved Earthlings have gone into hiding to avoid their invasion force and end up blowing up an Earth boy's ping pong ball and themselves as they are caught in the aftershocks of the blast. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Notes | Narrated in the third person. |
| Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #25 (November 1973); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008) |