Dates
- Cover date
- July 1960
- On sale
- March 28, 1960
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #59 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Original edition10¢ coverSource ↗
- UK pence edition9d [0-0-9 GBP] cover
British
Printed cover price 9d [0-0-9 GBP].
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Creators
Stories
- I Unleashed Shagg Upon the World! · 7 pages
An explorer wakes the Sphinx, really a robot warrior called Shagg. Since it was awakened too early, it wipes the memories of his rampage and returns to hibernation. The only evidence left is the explorer’s journal.
- The Green Man · 2 pages
A former pilot can't get anyone to believe his story about the fatal radium poisoning he picked up from an alien, and so keeps spreading it.
- I Was Trapped in Horror House! · 6 pages
A convict escapes from death row and hides in a haunted house in an amusement park. A mysterious figure leads him into hotter and hotter tunnels and he never emerges from the house.
- The Revenge of the Wooden Woman · 5 pages
A sea captain's love for his wooden figurehead is repaid when it saves his life after an attack by pirates.
- I Am the Beast-Man! · 5 pages
A Russian spy masquerades as a talking bear in order to embarrass the West when the hoax is revealed. He finds that the radiation which he pretended gave a bear the ability to speak actually transformed him into a bear.
Publisher’s description
An explorer wakes the Sphinx.
Reprinted in
Sinister Tales (1964), Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Spellbound (1960), Zombie (1961), Strange Tales Annual (1962), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Tomb of Darkness (1974), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)