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Issue Details

Issue #25
Published November 1961
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in August 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "The Creature from Krogarr!"

Characters Joe Hanson; The Creature from Krogarr
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Reprinted in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #13 (September 1971); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)

7 page story "I Was Captured by the Creature from Krogarr!"

Characters Joe Hanson; Clara Hanson; The Creature from Krogarr
Synopsis A dissolute human is targeted by an alien that can transport items through television sets, but he is saved by his failure to pay the electric bill.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Narrated in the first person.
Reprinted in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #13 (September 1971); in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #17 (August 1976); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)

2 page text story "The Party"

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)

6 page story "Behold Him! He Is the Martian!"

Characters "Danny Blake"; Agent X
Synopsis A spy from Jupiter disguised as a human stows away on the first rocket from Earth to Mars. The pilot is a Martian spy disguised as Earthman Dan Blake whose mission is to radio back to Earth that a radiation belt with fatal effects makes attempting to reach Mars too dangerous so Earthmen will give up their attempts to reach Mars. The spy from Jupiter overcomes the Martian and radios Jupiter that travel to Mars is safe, and then radios the Martian's story back to Earth so as to discourage Earthlings from space flight.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Notes Narrated in the first person.
Reprinted in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #8 (September 1971); in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #15 (April 1976); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)

5 page story "The Gypsy's Revenge!"

Characters Monk Morgan
Synopsis An American criminal robs an old gypsy man, ignoring his pleas and curses. When he returns to the United States he sees a fortune teller at a circus, and finds the tent suspended in the void, with the fortune teller revealed as the old man.
Genre occult
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #14 (December 1971); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)

5 page story "Where Lurks the Ghost!"

Characters Joe; Mike
Synopsis A man spends the night in a haunted house with the house’s caretaker. He thinks that he didn’t see a ghost, but the caretaker was killed years ago.
Genre occult
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Reprinted in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #15 (January 1972); in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #23 (July 1976); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)