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Issue Details

Issue #16
Published April 1961
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in January 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "The Thing Called Metallo!"

Characters Metallo [Mike Fallon]
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #26 (January 1974); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2004 series) #2 (2008)

13 page story "The Thing Called Metallo!"

Characters Metallo [Mike Fallon]
Synopsis An escaped convict tests a radiation-proof suit under a fake name. When he realizes the suit’s power, he uses it to go on a crime spree. When he finds that he has a disease only treatable by radiation he stays in the suit to die rather than be captured.
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes This story is divided into two untitled parts (6 pp, 7 pp). Narrated in the second person.
Reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #26 (January 1974); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2004 series) #2 (2008)

1 page text story "The Holiday"

Characters Zed; Zack
Synopsis A boy celebrates the turn of the millenium with a special trip to the moon.
Genre science fiction
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration. This story is set at the end of the 29th century. The first page is split with the statement of ownership.
Reprinted from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #40 (October 1955)

Half page statement of ownership "Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 and June 11, 1960 (74 Stat. 208)"

Letters typeset
Notes Average circulation per issue October 1959–September 1960 (issues #8–14): 148,929. This shares the first page of "The Holiday".
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006) #2 (2008)

5 page story "Nightmare!"

Characters John Larson; Dunstan Kromm
Synopsis A man scoffs at his friend’s idea that a nightmare could last forever, causing him to storm out, drive off the road and die. He wakes up having the same conversation, in a nightmare loop.
Genre occult
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Notes Narrated in the second person.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2004 series) #2 (2008)

5 page story "The Hands of Hogarr!"

Characters Carl Gruko; Hogarr; Inspector Baynard
Synopsis A fugitive forces a gypsy to give him a new face, but he is captured because it is the same face as his pursuer.
Genre occult
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2004 series) #2 (2008)