| Issue | #6 |
| Published | November 1959 |
| Frequency | bi-monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in July 1959. 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. |
| Genre | monsters |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Christopher Rule |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
| Characters | Prof. George Ailen |
| Synopsis | Stone men rise out of the ground and set off a panic. A geologist realizes that the creatures are just explorers and will return underground on their own. |
| Genre | monsters |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko (signed) |
| Inks | Steve Ditko (signed) |
| Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (1962); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
| Characters | inventor; Joe; Timothy Braun |
| Synopsis | A teenager is inventing a mechanical potato peeler, but a supernatural figure stops him to preserve the culture of hand-peeling potatoes in kitchens. |
| Genre | occult |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. |
| Reprinted | from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #47 (May 1956) |
| Characters | Darius Cartwright; John Cartwright |
| Synopsis | An arrogant businessman becomes governor of an alien planet and lives in an oxygen-filled dome, forbidding the natives from entering. When his oxygen pump breaks he has so thoroughly frightened them that none will come to his aid, and he slowly runs out of air. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Joe Sinnott (signed) |
| Inks | Joe Sinnott (signed) |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
| Characters | Norman; Diane; Pan |
| Synopsis | A man with his date at the museum laughs at the painting of Pan. The museum guard chastises him for it, and he leaves. Later, his date sees him on the street and asks him why his hair has fallen out. He doesn't tell her that, as they were leaving the museum, he looked back at the guard walking down the hall and saw that the man had cloven hooves. |
| Genre | occult |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Christopher Rule |
| Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
| Synopsis | A criminal sneaks aboard an experimental nuclear missile planning to hijack it and sell it to the Soviets, but after the rocket launches he discovers that it lacks internal control. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Paul Reinman (signed) |
| Inks | Paul Reinman (signed) |
| Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (1962); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
| Characters | Kisumu; Ngami |
| Synopsis | Alien invaders disguise themselves as wooden statues from and African village to infiltrate the homes of the wealthy and powerful, but their plans fail because the coats of varnish added by the exporters immobilize them. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | John Forte (signed) |
| Inks | John Forte (signed) |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |