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Issue Details

Issue #18
Published June 1961
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in March 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "Kraa the Unhuman!"

Characters Kraa
Genre monsters
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 August 2006).
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006) #2 (2008)

13 page story "Kraa the Unhuman"

Characters Kraa (introduction, origin)
Synopsis An American teacher investigates the mysterious statues made by one tribe in Africa, and finds that they worship a native mutated into a monster by a Soviet atomic test. The teacher soothes the man's pain with ointment, but before the American can get him to a hospital he dies protecting his helper from a python.
Genre monsters
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Letters Artie Simek
Notes This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Kraa!" (7 pp). Narrated in the first person. Kraa next appears in Nick Fury's Howling Commandos (Marvel, 2005 series) #6 (May 2006).
Reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #15 (May 1972); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006) #2 (2008)

2 page text story "The Money Tree"

Characters Billy Anderson; Tom Anderson; Amy Anderson
Synopsis A young boy's father scoffs when his son tries to grow a money tree, but the world is astonished when he succeeds.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #39 (November 1955)

5 page story "The Mysterious Mr. P!"

Characters Pied Piper
Synopsis A mysterious but famous clarinettist is trapped by communists and pressed to become a propaganda mouthpiece. Instead he leads the dictators into the sky, revealing himself as the Pied Piper.
Genre occult
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006) #2 (2008)

5 page story "Enter....the Robot!"

Characters Max Garr
Synopsis A mine foreman is concerned that a new robot may take his job, so he scrambles the wires in its control panel. When a cave-in occurs, the men outside contact the foreman by radio and tell him that the robot was not built to work in the mine, but as a safety measure. All he has to do to escape the collapsed tunnel is turn the robot on, but since he has sabotaged the robot's wiring, all he can do is desperately attempt to find the right connections by accident until his air gives out.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #20 (December 1972); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006) #2 (2008)