| Issue | #16 |
| Published | April 1961 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in January 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Characters | Metallo [Mike Fallon] |
| Genre | monsters |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #26 (January 1974); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2004 series) #2 (2008) |
| Characters | Metallo [Mike Fallon] |
| Synopsis | An escaped convict tests a radiation-proof suit under a fake name. When he realizes the suit’s power, he uses it to go on a crime spree. When he finds that he has a disease only treatable by radiation he stays in the suit to die rather than be captured. |
| Genre | monsters |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | This story is divided into two untitled parts (6 pp, 7 pp). Narrated in the second person. |
| Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #26 (January 1974); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2004 series) #2 (2008) |
| 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. This story is set at the end of the 29th century. The first page is split with the statement of ownership. |
| Reprinted | from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #40 (October 1955) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Average circulation per issue October 1959–September 1960 (issues #8–14): 148,929. This shares the first page of "The Holiday". |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006) #2 (2008) |
| Characters | John Larson; Dunstan Kromm |
| Synopsis | A man scoffs at his friend’s idea that a nightmare could last forever, causing him to storm out, drive off the road and die. He wakes up having the same conversation, in a nightmare loop. |
| Genre | occult |
| Pencils | Don Heck |
| Inks | Don Heck |
| Notes | Narrated in the second person. |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2004 series) #2 (2008) |
| Characters | Carl Gruko; Hogarr; Inspector Baynard |
| Synopsis | A fugitive forces a gypsy to give him a new face, but he is captured because it is the same face as his pursuer. |
| Genre | occult |
| Pencils | Paul Reinman |
| Inks | Paul Reinman |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2004 series) #2 (2008) |