Dates
- Cover date
- February 1959
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Nightmare Planet · 5 pages
Earth is terrified by the approach of a giant planet, but a military expedition finds that time moves more slowly on this planet, so they will not notice Earth.
- Bird Talk · 2 pages
A meeting with a strange man gives a boy an unusual way of getting a pet bird, talking to birds.
- Arise, Oh Geni... · 5 pages
A man with hay fever releases a hostile genie with plans of conquest from a lamp, but the genie contracts hay fever from his liberator. The genie tries to go to different areas, but after so long in the lamp, he has no resistances to germs and pollen. He decides he was better off in the lamp.
- Worlds within Worlds! · 4 pages
A scientist is convinced that there are microscopic worlds inside microbes. He cannot find one, but if he'd have kept looking then he would have found Earth.
- Beware the Future! · 4 pages
A physicist invents a time machine, but when it shows an idyllic future it causes people to lose their motivation to improve the world.
- Prison 2000 A.D. · 5 pages
In the year 2000 criminals are reconditioned through virtual reality.
Reprinted in
Race for the Moon (1959), Race for the Moon (1962), Strange Tales Annual (1962), Vault of Evil (1973), The Al Williamson Reader (2008), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019), Atlas Artist Edition (2024)