| Issue | #72 |
| Published | September 1961 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in July 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Characters | Glob |
| Genre | monsters |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | George Klein |
| Notes | Cover inker credit from Nick Caputo via GCD Errors list, December 2008. Original indexer had not credited an inker. |
| Reprinted | in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #7 (July 1971) |
| Characters | Glob |
| Synopsis | A painter is hired to cover a statue with strange paint. The statue comes to life at midnight and goes on a rampage. The statue is an advance agent for an alien invasion, and the painter defeats it by using turpentine to remove the special paint. |
| 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 2—"The Glob!" (7 pp) Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #7 (July 1971) [pp1–6, 8–13, reformatted, as "The Glop"] |
| Characters | Tom Morton; Jack Morton; Ellen Morton; Johnny Morton |
| Synopsis | A man who has travelled the world and seen wonders performed by hermits in India returns home to find that his young nephew creates magic with only belief. |
| Genre | occult |
| Pencils | Joe Maneely |
| Inks | Joe Maneely |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. |
| Reprinted | from Strange Tales of the Unusual (Marvel, 1955 series) #1 (December 1955) |
| Synopsis | Doctors perform an operation to increase brain power, hoping to find an answer to the world's problems, but the patient is still not intelligent enough to solve them. The doctors are disappointed, and allow the patient, a monkey, to regain his natural intelligence. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Paul Reinman |
| Inks | Paul Reinman |
| Notes | Narrated in the second person. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #7 (July 1971) |
| Synopsis | A baseball player's mitt is infested with tiny humans with enough rockets to evacuate their entire world as they see the baseball hurling towards them. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Notes | Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Reprinted | in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #7 (July 1971) |