| Issue | #7 |
| Published | January 1960 |
| Frequency | bi-monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in September 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. |
| Characters | Anton George; Evil [not actually called "the Thing on Bald Mountain" in the story] |
| Genre | monsters |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Notes | The statue on the cover looks nothing like the one in the story it supposedly illustrates. |
| Reprinted | in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (September 1970); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
| Characters | Anuxa |
| Synopsis | A nuclear submarine finds an alien hibernating in a glacier. He has been waiting thousands of years for humanity to wipe itself out so his race can claim the Earth, and now that nuclear weapons exist he thinks it won't be much longer. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Don Heck (signed) |
| Inks | Don Heck (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 Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (September 1970); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
| 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) |
| Characters | Lem Whipple |
| Synopsis | A hermit claims to have helped a group of aliens in return for a chest of treasure. The chest is empty, but he realizes that air is precious to space travellers. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #5 (September 1970); In Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
| Characters | Mr. Howard; John Lang |
| Synopsis | A real estate agent tries to dissuade a man from buying a haunted house, but he insists on spending a night there. He is chased from the house by spirits and is scared off, which relieves the agent, since he is one of the ghosts, and wouldn't want to have to share their home. |
| Genre | horror |
| Pencils | Paul Reinman (signed) |
| Inks | Paul Reinman (signed) |
| Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #5 (September 1970); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
| Synopsis | A man tries to convince a stranger that the camera he found takes pictures of another dimension. The stranger seems skeptical, when a bolt of lightning strikes and the stranger disappears, along with the man's pictures. While the man thinks he imagined it all, the stranger returns to his own dimension, where he cannot convince anyone of Earth's existance. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Dick Ayers (signed) |
| Inks | Dick Ayers (signed) |
| Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #1 (February 1966); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
| Characters | Anton Gorge; Evil [never actually called "the Thing on Bald Mountain" in this story]; Good |
| Synopsis | A sculptor builds two statues, one representing good and the other, evil, but the evil statue comes to life and attacks him. The good statue saves him, and both of them fall into the swamp. |
| Genre | monsters |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko (signed) |
| Inks | Steve Ditko (signed) |
| Notes | Continues in the next issue. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (September 1970) [as "I Spent Midnight with the Monster on Bald Mountain"]; in Monster Menace (Marvel, 1993 series) #1 (December 1993) [as "I Spent Midnight with the Monster on Bald Mountain"]; in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |