- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Dick Ayers
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-673
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Lewis Conrad; Taboo (introduction, origin)
- Synopsis
- A popular adventure writer finds a giant mud creature from another planet stranded in a Brazilian swamp. The alien tricks him into bringing all Earth's scientific records for nefarious purposes, but is destroyed by an H-bomb hidden with the records.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- monsters
Taboo next appears in issue #77 (October 1960). Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 3-8, 10 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 7).
- Script
- Stan Lee ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. DITKO)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. DITKO)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-672
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Totem; Bull Drago (cameo) Hunk (cameo)
- Synopsis
- The totem frightens the two convicts into a state of shock, but then goes on a rampage through the reservation and a nearby town. The chieftain concocts a potion to destroy the totem, and succeeds in stopping the monster, though at the cost of his own life.
- Reprints
Continues from last issue. Narrated in the third person. Job number from Steve Grant, 2005-04-20 (Per Sandell ed.). Story is pages 11-14, 16-17 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).
- Script
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- H-401
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Johnny
- Synopsis
- Johnny finds a magic wishing stone, but wishes it away because magic would make life no fun.
- Reprints
The first page of this story is printed between "Taboo! The Thing From the Murky Swamp!" and "The Return of the Totem!", while the second page is printed between "Doomsday!" and "I Made the Hulk Live". The last page is split with the statement of ownership. Text story is pages 18, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Paul Reinman (signed as )
- Inks
- Paul Reinman (signed as )
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-666
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Lynn; Walter
- Synopsis
- Two scientists accidentally release a gas that will kill all life on Earth. An unnatural wind disperses the gas, convincing one of the scientists of the other’s belief in a higher power.
- Reprints
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
- Letters
- typeset
Shares the last page of "The Strange Stone". Average sales not printed.
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Don Heck
- Inks
- Don Heck
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-665
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Albert Poole; Blake
- Synopsis
- A short and bitter scientist is obsessed with building a powerful giant robot body. He traps himself inside without the means to activate the robot, living out his life on the food which he'd stored inside.
- Reprints
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).