| Issue | #18 |
| Published | June 1959 |
| Frequency | bi-monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in March 1959. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Characters | Xom; Philip Lindsey |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Christopher Rule |
| Characters | John Warren |
| Synopsis | Aliens come to Earth and give humans the technology to make war and work unneccessary. One man is suspicious, and proves that they were only softening up humanity for an invasion. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Don Heck |
| Inks | Don Heck |
| Notes | This story is retold in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #86 (July 1961) as "Beware of Meeks Bringing Gifts!" drawn by Jack Kirby. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassello via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| 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) |
| Characters | Frank Hanes; Fate |
| Synopsis | A bitter inventor steals the time machine he invented for his company and some money and escapes to the future. The police of the future are waiting for him, so he goes into the past, but the machine disintegrates and he becomes young again, re-emerging with no memory and the opportunity to make a better choice. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassello via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Characters | Luther Worthington; Dexter Scott |
| Synopsis | A young engineer attempts to acquire funding from a wealthy industrialist in order to build an android. The industrialist is revealed to be such a creature who dissuades the young man in order to discourage competition from other androids. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Christopher Rule |
| Notes | Narrated in the second person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassello via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Characters | Hank Johnson; Freddy; XR79B |
| Synopsis | A reporter interviews a man who claims to be able to communicate with other worlds, but he disappears when he realizes that he accidentally visited a primitive world. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | John Forte |
| Inks | John Forte |
| Notes | Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassello via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
| Characters | Xom; Philip Lindsey |
| Synopsis | A group of human explorers are asked by aliens to help them destroy a monster, but the monster is harmless and the aliens are really ivory hunters. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Joe Sinnott |
| Inks | Joe Sinnott |
| Notes | Narrated in the first person. This story is set in the year 2744. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassello via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |