Dates
- Cover date
- November 1959
- On sale
- July 1, 1959
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- I Saw the Invasion of the Stone Men · 5 pages
Stone men rise out of the ground and set off a panic. A geologist realizes that the creatures are just explorers and will return underground on their own.
- Patent Pending · 2 pages
A teenager is inventing a mechanical potato peeler, but a supernatural figure stops him to preserve the culture of hand-peeling potatoes in kitchens.
- I Was the Man Under Glass! · 5 pages
An arrogant businessman becomes governor of an alien planet and lives in an oxygen-filled dome, forbidding the natives from entering. When his oxygen pump breaks he has so thoroughly frightened them that none will come to his aid, and he slowly runs out of air.
- I Laughed at the Great God, Pan! · 4 pages
A man with his date at the museum laughs at the painting of Pan. The museum guard chastises him for it, and he leaves. Later, his date sees him on the street and asks him why his hair has fallen out. He doesn't tell her that, as they were leaving the museum, he looked back at the guard walking down the hall and saw that the man had cloven hooves.
- I Became a...Human Bomb! · 4 pages
A criminal sneaks aboard an experimental nuclear missile planning to hijack it and sell it to the Soviets, but after the rocket launches he discovers that it lacks internal control.
- I Was a Prisoner of the Living Statues! · 5 pages
Alien invaders disguise themselves as wooden statues from an African village to infiltrate the homes of the wealthy and powerful, but their plans fail because the coats of varnish added by the exporters immobilize them.
Reprinted in
Creepy Worlds (1962), Forbidden Worlds (1958), Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (2006), Strange Tales Annual (1962), Race for the Moon (1962), Sinister Tales (1964), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (2013), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)