| Issue | #28 |
| Published | February 1962 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in November 1961 (November 9 according to Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website, November 14 according to Bob Bailey). This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. |
| Characters | Gorilla-Man [Franz Radzik] |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Reprinted | in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #5 (November 1971); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010); in Gorilla Man (Marvel, 2010 series) #2 |
| Characters | Gorilla-Man [Franz Radzik] |
| Synopsis | An inventor transfers his mind into a gorilla to commit crimes, but the gorilla controlling his body turns against him. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot) ;Larry Liebery (script) |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.). Narrated in the first person. Gorilla-Man next appears in issue #30 (April 1962). This story is retold in issue #48 (October 1963) as "Grayson's Gorilla!" by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber. |
| Reprinted | in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #5 (November 1971); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010); in Gorilla Man (Marvel, 2010 series) #2 |
| Characters | Axtel; George; Chuck |
| Synopsis | A recent graduate meets a strange man and finds that they share a gift to commune with the Green Goddess. |
| Genre | occult |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. Sequence added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.) |
| Reprinted | from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #32 (August 1955) |
| Characters | Billy Jones/Brown (last name inconsistent) |
| Synopsis | A boy sees an alien landing, but no one believes him until the spaceship comes back, they didn't realize that a tree on a hill was really an alien being. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.). The last page includes an advertisement for the Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and 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) |
| Characters | John Bentley; Anne Wentworth |
| Synopsis | An insolvent cad marries a rich widow dying of a terminal sickness for her money, but finds when she dies that the disease is contagious and he has only months to live. |
| Genre | horror; period |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
| Pencils | Gene Colan |
| Inks | Gene Colan |
| Notes | Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.). In order for this story to make any sense, the disease would have to be sexually transmitted. |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010) |
| Synopsis | A mysterious fog envelops the entire world for days, terrifying everyone. It was actually created by benevolent alien peacekeepers to hide Earth from an invasion. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee (signed) |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko (signed) |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Notes | Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.). This plot is simiilar to a plan used by the Watcher in Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #48 (March 1966), also written by Stan Lee. |
| Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #13 (September 1971); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010) |