| Issue | #77 |
| Published | February 1962 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in December 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. Unsourced arrival date of November 30, 1962 previously indexed. |
| Characters | Mr. Jordan |
| Genre | occult |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | Inks added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.) |
| Characters | Eric Krugg; Diane Harper |
| Synopsis | A Hollywood special effects man builds an android to slay a woman who rejected his advances because she was "waiting". After he sends the robot to the museum where she works, he relaxes for a sufficient time, and then is startled when she appears at the door with the robot. She reveals that she too, is a robot, and she was "waiting" for a robot to be a mate. The two machines slowly approach him as he backs towards an open window which he falls through. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ? |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Script and inks added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.) |
| Reprinted | in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #10 (August 1967) |
| Characters | Bill Barton; Mr. Sparks |
| Synopsis | A ham radio enthusiast picks up a genie on one frequency but wastes his three wishes before he knows what's happening. |
| Genre | occult |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. Sequence added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.) |
| Reprinted | from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #133 (April 1955) |
| Characters | Mr. Jordan; Wilbur Weems |
| Synopsis | A man offers fifty thousand dollars to anyone who can show him a ghost but, time after time, he proves that there is a rational explanation behind the sightings. It turns out he does this because he is a ghost himself, and wants to prevent haunted houses from being demolished, rendering their occupants homeless. |
| Genre | occult |
| Script | Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ? |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Script and inks added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.) The last page includes an advertisement for the Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) also drawn by Jack Kirby. |
| Reprinted | in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #9 (June 1967) |
| Synopsis | Earth is terrified by the appearance of a flying saucer, but the people are relieved to see the aliens are small and elf-like. They explain that they are peaceful and open contact, changing after they leave into their true insectoid forms, which would have frightened the humans into attacking them. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ? |
| Pencils | Don Heck |
| Inks | Don Heck |
| Notes | Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.). |
| Characters | Ben Hobbs; Reuben; Clem; Simon Hobbs |
| Synopsis | A man tries to get his uncle, who talks to scarecrows, committed to an asylum so that he can take over his farm. When he takes the sheriff out to speak with his uncle the sheriff returns visibly shaken and tells the nephew to butt out of the farmer's business. The farmer has revealed to the sheriff that the reason he talks to the scarecrows as his friends is that he himself is one. |
| Genre | occult |
| Script | Stan Lee (signed) |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko (signed) |
| Inks | Steve Ditko (signed) |
| Notes | Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.) The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko. |