Dates
- Cover date
- April 1959
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- It Hides in the Forest! · 5 pages
Eruditians announce their invasion of Earth and challenge humanity to discover what they have disguised their scout as. Fortunately, Spot the dog recognizes the alien has disguised itself as a tree and they withdraw their plans of conquest.
- The Stranger · 1.75 pages
A painting of a Napoleonic victory parade is mysteriously linked to an eccentric inhabitant of modern Paris.
- When a Planet Dies! · 4 pages
Xanna announces a plot for invasion against Granu's warning of a deluge. Suddenly, water sweeps over the planet, drowning them. They lived on a microscope slide, their planet no larger than a speck of dust.
- The Man from Tomorrow! · 4 pages
Humphrey poses as a time traveller supposedly newly-arrived in New York but is apprehended by real time travellers who are annoyed he didn't keep a low profile and send him "back" to the future.
- The Brain Picker! · 5 pages
Frederic is exposed to radiation from an h-bomb and becomes telepathic. Frederic uses his telepathy to win a fortune, then takes over all the nations of the Earth. Frederic is unstoppable because he can read his enemies' minds but Philip defeats him by building a robot who has no such liability.
- Guardian of the Stars! · 5 pages
People doubt whether a robot should be assigned the task of manning a lighthouse station in space, but when Bruko invades the station so that a ship will strike an asteroid field, the robot destroys the station to send out a final warning to the ship; the robot is honored on Earth for its actions.
Reprinted in
Astounding Stories (1966), Weird Planets (1962), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Sinister Tales (1964), Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)