| Issue | #60 |
| Published | September 1960 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in May 1960. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Characters | Bombu; Mr. Mason; Luis |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Notes | Cover inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors list, December 2008. |
| Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Maervel, 1970 series) #9 (May 1971) |
| Characters | Bombu; Mr. Mason; Luis |
| Synopsis | Explorers meet a witch doctor named Bombu, who seems to possess real power. He is killed by lightning and when they find that his mask is really his face they realize that he was an alien. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Characters | Rijak Lobar; John McDermott |
| Synopsis | A greedy man misinterprets a fortune-teller's prediction and spends money that he'll never have. |
| Genre | occult |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | The first page is printed between the pages of "I Learned the Monstrous Secret of Bombu!", while the second page is printed between "I Found the Things from Nowhere" and "I Turned into a...Martian!". The last page is split with the statement of ownership. |
| Reprinted | from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #43 (February 1957) |
| Characters | Roderic Zorn |
| Synopsis | Against expert opinion, a engineer digs a mine to the centre of the Earth and finds dragons. He collapses the mine himself to allow his workers to escape. They say that the mine collapsed as warned to avoid panic, and silently remember the engineer's heroism |
| Genre | monsters |
| Pencils | Don Heck |
| Inks | Don Heck |
| Notes | The dragons in this story appear identical to Rro from issue #58, also found in a dig to the Earth's core, and also drawn by Don Heck. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970) #11 (September 1971) |
| Characters | Joe Carter |
| Synopsis | A man messes with his TV and it picks up battle between alien-looking creatures. The man assumes that he must have tuned into the events upon some other planet, but what the TV has actually shown him was a colony of black ants being attacked and destroyed by a colony of red ants right outside his window. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Notes | This is a retelling of "The Voice of Doom!" drawn by Carl Burgos, from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #4 (July 1959). Inker credit and job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #1 (February 1966); in Where Monsters Dwell #9 (May 1971) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | This shares the last page of "The Swami". Average monthly circulation not provided. Contradicting the indicia, the statement of ownership shows bimonthly publication; it is possible that the shift in publication schedules is the reason for reprinting an identical statement of ownersship to the one printed two issues prior (issue #58). |
| Synopsis | A man is telepathically controlled by a hostile Martian who returns to Earth with him. He returns to Earth and places his mind in the man's body, but he is able to trick the alien into immediately attacking armed guards and being killed. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Notes | The explorer in this story wanders over Mars in jeans and a t-shirt. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #4 (July 1971) |