Dates
- Cover date
- April 1959
- On sale
- December 2, 1958
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Last Warning--Evacuate Earth! · 5 pages
A gaseous alien arrives on Earth to warn people to evacuate before its race invades. It attempts to communicate with humans telepathically, but they disregard his warning as madness or a trick. Convinced that the humans' lack of fear is due to some impenetrable defence, the alien leaves and warns its people to call off the invasion.
- Mystery Trip · 2 pages
Tommy's uncle returns from a space journey needing to re-learn how to walk on earth instead of floating.
- The Creatures from the Bottomless Pit! · 5 pages
A man descends in a bathysphere into a pit so deep that he is surprised to find a waterless cavern beneath it occupied by elves banished long ago by a wizard. They stole the magic ball that kept Atlantis safe from the waves and so a sorcerer cast a spell that would send them to the deepest pit in the Earth. They offer to make the man ruler of humans if he returns them to the surface would. He agrees, but then has second thoughts about unleashing their mischief upon unsuspecting humanity and destroys the bathysphere, accepting underground exile in the process.
- Test Pilot! · 4 pages
A rocketship test pilot in the year 2089 takes an experimental rocket on a test flight. He faces an oxygen leak caused by a collision, alien raiders and other hazards before returning safely to Earth.
- Next Stop--Mars! · 4 pages
A short child mocked for his height takes comfort from his one friend and his love of airplanes. He is rejected by the air force because of his height, but when his friend designs an experimental rocket that can only be piloted by a short man he becomes the first man on Mars.
- Trapped In Tomorrow! · 5 pages
A man spends twenty years building a time machine in order to use knowledge of the future to enrich himself. He travels to 2010 and memorizes stock market and horse race information from the newspaper archives. When he tries to return to the past, however, he finds that he accidentally left his time machine in a futuristic garbage processor, and it has been disintegrated.
Publisher’s description
A gaseous alien arrives on Earth to warn people to evacuate before its race invades.
Reprinted in
Creepy Worlds (1962), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Sinister Tales (1964), Astounding Stories (1966), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)