| Issue | #71 |
| Published | August 1961 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in June 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Characters | Roc; John Avery; Anne Avery |
| Genre | monsters |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Reprinted | in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #10 (April 1971) [with additional art] |
| Characters | Roc; John Avery; Anne Avery |
| Synopsis | Two newlyweds in Egypt uncover a huge egg in the sand that hatches into the Roc in the warm sunlight. The monstrous bird flies around gathering parts of bridges, trains and other items to use in constructing a nest until the scientist that uncovered the egg gets the idea to build a robotic duplicate that flies into outer space, enticing the Roc to follow it in its forlorn quest for a mate. |
| Genre | monsters |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"The Roc Lives Again!" (7 pp). Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #10 (April 1971) |
| Characters | John Pearson; Prof. Thomas Benton; Father Time |
| Synopsis | A scientist's machine transports him and a reporter outside of time and into the realm of Father Time. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. |
| Reprinted | from Adventures Into Weird Worlds (Marvel, 1952 series) #7 (June 1952) |
| Characters | Billy Carter; Alana |
| Synopsis | A lame boy wills himself to the future and his legs are healed before he sends himself home. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Paul Reinman |
| Inks | Paul Reinman |
| Notes | Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #4 (July 1971) |
| Characters | Simon Squeed |
| Synopsis | An art dealer who buys quality paintings at rock-bottom insulting prices from poverty stricken artists and then sells them for thousands attempts to steal a beautiful painting from a gypsy who refuses to sell it. The dealer has the gypsy arrested on a trumped up charge and burgles the man's wagon to remove the painting. When the gypsy is released because the man cannot be found he knows why and goes to the art dealer's apartment to retrieve his enchanted painting, finding the art dealer now a part of the picture. |
| Genre | occult |
| Script | Stan Lee ? |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Letters | Artie Simek ? |
| Notes | The name Bessarabia was obsolete even when this story was printed, it was then part of the Soviet Union, and is today known as Moldova. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Script and Letters credit from The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Creators website. |
| Reprinted | in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #6 (May 1971); in Amazing Adventures (Marvel, 1970 series) #24 (May 1974) [page 2 edited out] |