| Issue | #98 |
| Published | July 1962 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in April 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Some information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Timely/Atlas discussion list. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Characters | Frank Taylor |
| Synopsis | An alien lands on Earth and issues a challenge to best any man at any contest or the Earth will be invaded. The alien defeats all comers until one man challenges it to sleep longer than him, claiming to have slept for one million years. The alien vows to sleep for two million years. Guards are set up around the cave to keep anyone from disturbing the creature and the man's formerly nagging wife is eternally grateful to him for saving Earth. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Paul Reinman |
| Notes | Narrated in the first person. The third and sixth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series), the last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series). |
| Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #38 (October 1975) |
| 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 | Captain William Reynold; Thomas Clark |
| Synopsis | Sailors find the "Flying Dutchman" and take the ship's gold, despite the pleas of the ghost crew. They are turned into ghosts to replace that crew, leaving the man who refused the gold unharmed. |
| Genre | occult |
| Pencils | Dick Ayers (signed) |
| Inks | Dick Ayers (signed) |
| Notes | The second and fifth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series). |
| Reprinted | in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #4 (August 1966); in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #19 (October 1975) |
| Characters | Laura Wentworth; Pete Sloan |
| Synopsis | A lazy cad tricks a rich girl into marrying him so that he can watch TV all day. His wife sees her mistake and reveals that she’s a witch, turning him into a fan on the television: a ‘tv fan’. |
| Genre | occult |
| Pencils | Don Heck |
| Inks | Don Heck |
| Notes | The second and fourth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series). |
| Characters | Mr. Bixby |
| Synopsis | A bean seller is chagrined to find that he has competition from the Giant, of Jack and Beanstalk fame, who has decided to go into business selling his giant beans. |
| Genre | occult |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Notes | The second and fourth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series), the last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko. |