| Issue | #73 |
| Published | October 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. |
| Genre | monsters |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | George Klein |
| Notes | Inking credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error list, December 2008. Original indexer had not credited an inker. |
| Characters | Prof. Robert Carter |
| Synopsis | A physicist working at an atomic research lab in New Mexico goes into work one day with a spider in his pants cuff. The creature is bombarded by the atomic rays and grows to a huge size, gaining the power to think and speak, and then attacks the humans. The physicist tricks the spider into snagging a test missile in its web and when it climbs towards it, the missile detonates and kills the spider. |
| Genre | monsters |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #8 (September 1971) |
| Characters | Matt Anderson; Midget Morgan/Count Morgan; Dr. Waynne |
| Synopsis | The mysterious death of a scientist reveals a mystical device and leads to the death of a centuries-old Italian count. |
| Genre | occult |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. The events of this story are dated January 8, 1952. |
| Reprinted | from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #13 (October 1952) |
| Characters | Bill Jones; Ruth Jones; Mr. Cragley; Jordan |
| Synopsis | A couple with a nasty landlord get a free TV set from a stranger. It is a device sent by aliens to enslave Earth by hypnotizing people through the sets in preparation for their landing force. The couple snap out of the hypnosis and the aliens from Pluto realize that their plan has failed and leave Earth. It turns out the landlord took down the antenna that the couple had set up to improve reception of the set, and the couple express their overwhelming gratitude to the puzzled landlord. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | Narrated in the first person. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #5 (November 1971); in Monster Menace (Marvel, 1993 series) #1 (December 1993) |
| Synopsis | Martians come to Earth to discover if humans represent a threat to them. They question a human using a machine to verify his answers, and find that he is totally free of greed, hatred or deceit. The Martians leave satisfied, unaware that they questioned a mental patient. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Don Heck |
| Inks | Don Heck |
| Notes | Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #5 (November 1971) |
| Characters | Charles Grey; Sarah Grey; Medusa the Gorgon |
| Synopsis | A couple moves to a cursed castle and the man discovers the imprisoned Medusa. When her powers do not affect him she thinks they have disappeared and accidentally turns herself to stone, not knowing the man is blind. |
| Genre | occult |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Notes | This story has never been referenced in any other Marvel story using Medusa or the other figures of Greek mythology. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #5 (November 1971) |