Dates
- Cover date
- March 1959
- On sale
- December 2, 1958
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Ghost Ship of Space · 5 pages
A reporter investigates a series of spaceship disappearances and is captured by primitive aliens. He forces them to free him by pretending that a simple gadget is a powerful bomb.
- Mystery Pupil · 2 pages
A dull teacher earns accolades by accidentally helping capture a Martian criminal.
- The Creatures in the Volcano · 5 pages
A chief of a Pacific island tribe finds aliens in a volcano preparing to conquer Earth. He thinks his people will not believe him, so he instead agrees to sell the island to the US for nuclear tests, which destroys the aliens.
- The Prison Planet! · 4 pages
A prison colony grows into a thriving society and forgets its origins, while the mother planet becomes a peaceful utopia before being devastated by invaders. The mother planet was Mars, and the prison planet Earth.
- Alien on Earth! · 4 pages
An alien lands on Earth, but cannot be understood. The humans attack it out of fear, and finally drop a nuclear bomb on it. The alien leaves, not out of fear, but because its attempt to make peaceful contact has shown that humans are barbarians.
- Robot on the Rampage! · 5 pages
A supercomputer and its army of robots enslave humanity, but it is stopped when a janitor unplugs it.
Reprinted in
Creepy Worlds (1962), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Adventures into the Unknown (1958), Forbidden Worlds (1958), Race for the Moon (1962), Astounding Stories (1966), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Sinister Tales (1964), Crazy Magazine (1973), Star Wars Weekly (1978), Wally Wood: Eerie Tales of Crime and Horror (2013), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)