| Issue | #2 |
| Published | January 1971 |
| Frequency | Bi-Monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.25 USD |
| Pages | 68 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Characters | X |
| Genre | Monsters |
| Script | Stan Lee ? |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers ?; Jack Kirby ? |
| Notes | Inks credits from the GCD index to the original publication. |
| Reprinted | from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #20 (June 1961) |
| Characters | Charles Bentley; X |
| Synopsis | A writer buys an enchanted typewriter that brings his monster stories to life. |
| Genre | Monsters |
| Script | Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ? |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | Narrated in the first person. X next appears in Alpha Flight (Marvel, 1997 series) #17 (December 1998). |
| Reprinted | from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #20 (June 1961) |
| Characters | Orrgo (introduction); Jo-Jo |
| Synopsis | An alien race with immense telepathic and telekinetic powers send one of their kind to conquer Earth. He easily defeats the police and army and freezes Washington, DC in a block of ice, but is killed by a gorilla while resting because he only prepared defences against humans. |
| Genre | Monsters |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | Orrgo or a character based on him next appears in Defenders (Marvel, 2001 series) #9 (November 2001). |
| Reprinted | from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #90 (November 1961) |
| Characters | Adam Gree |
| Synopsis | A heartless tycoon has a time machine built to take him forty years into the future, where he believes that war and disease will be wiped out. |
| Genre | horror |
| Script | Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ? |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Reprinted | from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #20 (June 1961) |
| Characters | Derek; John; Monga; Uxmal; Antogg |
| Synopsis | A white game hunter finds the legendary elephant's graveyard, hoping to make a fortune in ivory. He discovers that elephants were introduced to Earth by Martians, who use the graveyard as a gathering point for the ivory, and won't let him leave. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ? |
| Pencils | Don Heck |
| Inks | Don Heck |
| Notes | Narrated in the first person. |
| Reprinted | from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #15 (January 1961) |
| Characters | X-35 |
| Synopsis | In a future war between humans and robots the robots try to find a way to break the human defences by sending a robot spy disguised as a human. The spy's information leads them into a trap, and they discover that their spy was himself a human disguised as a robot. |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Pencils | Don Heck |
| Inks | Don Heck |
| Reprinted | from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #90 (November 1961) |
| Characters | The Blip |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ? |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | Narrated in the first person. |
| Reprinted | from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #15 (January 1961) |
| Synopsis | A criminal hides from the police in an old Egyptian tomb, ignoring the warning of a curse. He not only escapes the police, but has a run of luck that makes him rich and happy. Or so he thinks, as the gas in the tomb drove him mad and he is delusional in an Egyptian hospital. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ? |
| Pencils | Paul Reinman |
| Inks | Paul Reinman |
| Notes | Narrated in the first person. |
| Reprinted | from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #15 (January 1961) |