| Issue | #19 |
| Published | May 1961 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in February 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Characters | Rommbu |
| Genre | monsters |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #7 (January 1971); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008) |
| Characters | Rommbu; Pete Hunter; John Hunter |
| Synopsis | An escaped geologist convicted of armed robbery leads an alien invader to an active volcano in order to sacrifice himself to destroy the alien and protect the planet. |
| Genre | monsters |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | This story is divided into two untitled parts (6 pp, 7 pp). Rommbu next appears in Marvel Monsters: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005). |
| Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #7 (January 1971); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008) |
| Characters | Wally Hadley |
| Synopsis | When a family moves to a house in the country their son finds a gnarled little tree on their land that grants wishes. |
| Genre | occult |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. |
| Reprinted | from Strange Stories of Suspense (Marvel, 1955 series) #11 (October 1955) |
| Characters | Vince Kane; Al Rocco |
| Synopsis | A gangster buys a pincushion doll that looks like his rival, and his reactions to pins stuck in it convince him that it works. He throws the doll out the window of a tall building, but his rival has altered the doll to look like him instead. |
| Genre | occult |
| Pencils | Don Heck |
| Inks | Don Heck |
| Notes | Narrated in the second person. |
| Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #7 (January 1971); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008) |
| Characters | Bart Magor; Zomok |
| Synopsis | A hunter with contempt for the animals he captures is captured by giant aliens and placed in a maze from which he can see a rocketship he could use to pilot his way home if only he could figure out how to escape the maze. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #7 [without page 3] (January 1971); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008) |