| Issue | #25 |
| Published | November 1961 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in August 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Characters | Joe Hanson; The Creature from Krogarr |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Reprinted | in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #13 (September 1971); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010) |
| Characters | Joe Hanson; Clara Hanson; The Creature from Krogarr |
| Synopsis | A dissolute human is targeted by an alien that can transport items through television sets, but he is saved by his failure to pay the electric bill. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | Narrated in the first person. |
| Reprinted | in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #13 (September 1971); in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #17 (August 1976); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010) |
| Characters | Mr. Braggle |
| Synopsis | A salesman trying to unload some oil stocks thinks that he’s found a rich mark, but instead walks into a party of talking dogs. |
| Genre | humor |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. |
| Reprinted | from Mystical Tales (Marvel, 1956 series) #2 (August 1956) |
| Characters | "Danny Blake"; Agent X |
| Synopsis | A spy from Jupiter disguised as a human stows away on the first rocket from Earth to Mars. The pilot is a Martian spy disguised as Earthman Dan Blake whose mission is to radio back to Earth that a radiation belt with fatal effects makes attempting to reach Mars too dangerous so Earthmen will give up their attempts to reach Mars. The spy from Jupiter overcomes the Martian and radios Jupiter that travel to Mars is safe, and then radios the Martian's story back to Earth so as to discourage Earthlings from space flight. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Notes | Narrated in the first person. |
| Reprinted | in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #8 (September 1971); in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #15 (April 1976); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010) |
| Characters | Monk Morgan |
| Synopsis | An American criminal robs an old gypsy man, ignoring his pleas and curses. When he returns to the United States he sees a fortune teller at a circus, and finds the tent suspended in the void, with the fortune teller revealed as the old man. |
| Genre | occult |
| Pencils | Don Heck |
| Inks | Don Heck |
| Reprinted | in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #14 (December 1971); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010) |
| Characters | Joe; Mike |
| Synopsis | A man spends the night in a haunted house with the house’s caretaker. He thinks that he didn’t see a ghost, but the caretaker was killed years ago. |
| Genre | occult |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Reprinted | in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #15 (January 1972); in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #23 (July 1976); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010) |