| Issue | #5 |
| Published | August 1959 |
| Frequency | bi-monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in May 1959. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person unless otherwise specified. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Characters | Roger; Clark; Dave |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Christopher Rule |
| Notes | Corrected creator credits from Jeff Cooper, Steve Jenner, and Dr. Michael J. Vassallo [as Doc V.] |
| Characters | Roger; Clark; Dave |
| Synopsis | Three scientists disappear without a trace, leaving a journal explaining that they were working on a time machine. The police never know what happened, because the time machine succeeded, but transformed the three men into three seventeenth-century scientists thinking about a time machine, unaware of their true identities. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Don Heck |
| Inks | Don Heck |
| Notes | Narrated in the third person. |
| Characters | Zed; Zack |
| Synopsis | A boy celebrates the turn of the millenium with a special trip to the moon. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. |
| Reprinted | from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #40 (October 1955) |
| Characters | Victor Sage |
| Synopsis | In the year 2060 a vain elected official feels that the forces of science will be sufficient to deal with the menace of an impending comet but everything they try to either destroy or divert the comet fails. Finally all humanity, including the official, turn to prayer, and the comet is swept aside from its collision course with Earth. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko (signed) |
| Inks | Steve Ditko (signed) |
| Characters | Bongo |
| Synopsis | An atomic explosion makes a gorilla as intelligent as a human. It is overjoyed, and plans to conquer mankind or to teach humans through dialogue, but its artificial intelligence quickly dissipates. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee ? |
| Pencils | Paul Reinman (signed) |
| Inks | Paul Reinman (signed) |
| Notes | No narration. This story is retold in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #83 (August 1962) as "When the Jungle Sleeps", by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, with a lion instead of an ape. Reprint credit from Steve Jenner. Speculative Stan Lee writer credit on the basis of his signature on later retelling. (02/04/2010) |
| Reprinted | in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #223 |
| Synopsis | A space pilot is terrified of taking another flight but his family is unsympathetic. Their attitude is out of surprise, since a robot has never before been afraid. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Carl Burgos |
| Inks | Carl Burgos |
| Notes | Art identification by Dr. Michael J. Vassallo; Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Characters | Sandor |
| Synopsis | A successful space pirate tries to conquer a world without technology to use as a base. He is surprised to find that the inhabitants are actually advanced "homo superior" with psychic powers, and they easily imprison him and his men. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee ? |
| Pencils | Joe Sinnott (signed) |
| Inks | Joe Sinnott (signed) |
| Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Speculative writing credit to Stan Lee based on early use of the term "homo superior". This is the earliest known story to use this term, later to be the standard term for mutants in the Marvel Universe. |