| Issue | #26 |
| Published | February 1962 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in November 1961 (November 9 according to Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website, November 21 according to Bob Bailey). This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. |
| Genre | monsters |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | George Klein ?; Dick Ayers ? |
| Notes | Inks added by Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 August 2006). Dick Ayers suggested by Bob Bailey (12 August 2005) |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010) |
| Characters | Jed Hanson; Bobby Hanson; Ann Hanson |
| Synopsis | A farmer develops a plant that grows so quickly at night that it becomes a menace to all objects around it by crushing and tossing them. The farmer feels he is done for as he runs to hide behind a meteorite that fell from the sky earlier in the day, but as the plant touches the rock, it begins to shrivel and die. The farmer and his son along with the neighbors quickly use tools to break up the meteor and apply it to the plant thus saving themselves. |
| Genre | monsters |
| Script | Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot) |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | The last page includes an advertisement for the Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Kirby. Script and inks added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.) |
| Reprinted | in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #8 (June 1972); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010) |
| Characters | Joe; Gus; Angelo |
| Synopsis | A struggling band takes on a poor but talented young harp player who turns out to be a young angel studying on Earth. |
| Genre | occult |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. |
| Reprinted | from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #39 (October 1955) |
| Synopsis | Communist spies plan to fake a martian invasion, but they are abducted and killed by the real martians, afraid that their cover will be blown. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot) |
| Pencils | Don Heck |
| Inks | Don Heck |
| Notes | Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.) |
| Reprinted | in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #8 (June 1972); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010) |
| Characters | Vince Jordan |
| Synopsis | A racketeer breaks a mirror and gives up crime for seven years, only to break another mirror in his first robbery and be caught and sentenced to seven years. |
| Genre | crime; occult |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
| Pencils | Paul Reinman |
| Inks | Paul Reinman |
| Notes | Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.) |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010) |
| Synopsis | A thief steals a ruby from an Indian Lama's temple and finds himself cursed to see the Lama's face everywhere he goes. He tries to get out of the country by train, but still finds himself pursued by the face. Panicked, he pulls the emergency stop cord on the train and leaps out. Unfortunately for him, the place he chose to stop the train happened to be just as it was crossing a high trestle bridge. |
| Genre | occult |
| Script | Stan Lee (signed) |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko (signed) |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Notes | The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Kirby. Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.) |
| Reprinted | in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #8 (June 1972); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010) |