Dates
- Cover date
- January 1960
- On sale
- September 1, 1959
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- He Waits for Us in the Glacier! · 5 pages
A nuclear submarine finds an alien hibernating in a glacier. He has been waiting thousands of years for humanity to wipe itself out so his race can claim the Earth, and now that nuclear weapons exist, he thinks it won't be much longer.
- The Money Tree · 2 pages
A young boy's father scoffs when his son tries to grow a money tree, but the world is astonished when he succeeds.
- We Met in the Swamp! · 5 pages
A hermit claims to have helped a group of aliens in return for a chest of treasure. The chest is empty, but he realizes that air is precious to space travellers.
- I Lived a Ghost Story! · 4 pages
A real estate agent tries to dissuade a man from buying a haunted house, but he insists on spending a night there. He is chased from the house by spirits and is scared off, which relieves the agent, since he is one of the ghosts, and wouldn't want to have to share their home.
- I Saw the Other World! · 4 pages
A man tries to convince a stranger that the camera he found takes pictures of another dimension. The stranger seems skeptical, then a bolt of lightning strikes and the stranger disappears, along with the man's pictures. While the man thinks he imagined it all, the stranger returns to his own dimension, where he cannot convince anyone of Earth's existence.
- I Spent Midnight with the Thing on Bald Mountain! · 5 pages
A sculptor builds two statues, one representing good and the other, evil, but the evil statue comes to life and attacks him. The good statue saves him, and both of them fall into the swamp.
Reprinted in
Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Adventures into the Unknown (1958), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (2006), Sinister Tales (1964), All Star Adventure Comic (1959), Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Where Monsters Dwell (1970), Where Creatures Roam (1970), Strange Tales Annual (1962), Fantasy Masterpieces (1966), Super Giant (1973), Planet of the Apes (1974), Monster Menace (1993), 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)