| Issue | #14 |
| Published | February 1961 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in September 1960. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Characters | Colossus [later "It, the Living Colossus"] |
| Genre | monsters |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | According to George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index #7B this cover is reprinted on page 9 panel 3 of the story in Astonishing Tales #24. |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008) |
| Characters | Colossus [later "It, the Living Colossus"] (introduction, origin); Ivan Petrovski; Boris Petrovski |
| Synopsis | A Russian dissident is forced by his loyal brother to build a giant statue glorifying the USSR. An alien crash lands and fuses with the statue for protection, animating it and defeating the whole military. The alien’s companions retrieve it and the sculptor claims that the statue was a judgement against dictatorship, frightening the regime. |
| Genre | monsters |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby (signed) |
| Inks | Dick Ayers (signed) |
| Notes | This story is divided into three chapters: an untitled chapter one (6 pp), Chapter Two—"The Colossus Lives!" (6 pp), Chapter Three—"The Power of the Colossus!" (6 pp). Job numbers visible in Masterworks reprint. Writer credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index. The last page asks for feedback on longer stories, directing letters to "Editor, Journey Into Mystery". Colossus next appears in issue #20 (August 1961). |
| Reprinted | in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #17 (June 1972); in Astonishing Tales (Marvel, 1970 series) #24 (June 1974) [p 5: panel 2]; in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008) |
| Characters | Stan Wepp |
| Synopsis | A bored television comedian is mysteriously transported back to the small mining town and small theatres that he loves. |
| Genre | occult |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. |
| Reprinted | from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #45 (May 1956) |
| Characters | Gorak |
| Synopsis | A famous magician is enraged when his power is questioned, and he reveals that the whole world is an illusion, and only he is real. He even confronts the reader, but fades away as the story ends. |
| Genre | occult |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko (signed) |
| Inks | Steve Ditko (signed) |
| Notes | The last panel shows the last 2 pages of the story in miniature. |
| Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #16 (July 1972); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008) |
| Characters | Colossus (later It, the Living Colossus); Ivan Petrovski; Boris Petrovski |
| Synopsis | The Colossus flies and manages to destroy the plane with the hydrogen bomb. It then lands and another spaceship appears. The crab-like creature leaves the Colossus and goes home. Boris takes this chance to tell his brother Ivan that his Government must change or the Colossus will come back to life again. The Government changes and the Colossus stands guard to make sure that justice and peace will continue in the land. |
| Genre | Monsters |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby (signed) |
| Inks | Dick Ayers (signed) |
| Notes | Redundant sequence marked for removal. |
| Reprinted | in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #17 (June 1972); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 |
| Characters | Colossus (later It, the Living Colossus); Ivan Petrovski; Boris Petrovski |
| Synopsis | The Colossus escapes from the army and Boris takes the opportunity to attack the regime by declaring that after he built the statue a voice came from the beyond saying that it was time for dictators to be brought to task and power-mad rulers to be halted. Once away from the army the Colossus comes back and destroys a submarine and the war ministry decides to destroy it with a hydrogen bomb. |
| Genre | Monsters |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | Redundant sequence marked for removal. |
| Reprinted | in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #17 (June 1972); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 |