Dates
- Cover date
- September 1960
- On sale
- May 31, 1960
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #60 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 Learned the Monstrous Secret of Bombu! · 7 pages
Explorers meet a witch doctor named Bombu, who seems to possess real power. He is killed by lightning and when they find that his mask is really his face they realize that he was an alien.
- The Swami · 1.75 pages
A greedy man misinterprets a fortune-teller's prediction and spends money that he'll never have.
- We Were Trapped with the Silent Monster! · 6 pages
Against expert opinion, an engineer digs a mine to the center of the Earth and finds dragons. He collapses the mine himself to allow his workers to escape. They say that the mine collapsed as a warning to avoid panic, and silently remember the engineer's heroism.
- I Found the Things from Nowhere · 5 pages
A man messes with his TV and it picks up a battle between alien-looking creatures. The man assumes that he must have tuned into the events upon some other planet, but what the TV has actually shown him was a colony of black ants being attacked and destroyed by a colony of red ants right outside his window.
- I Turned into a...Martian! · 5 pages
A man is telepathically controlled by a hostile Martian who returns to Earth with him. He returns to Earth and places his mind in the man's body, but he is able to trick the alien into immediately attacking armed guards and being killed.
Reprinted in
Sinister Tales (1964), Where Monsters Dwell (1970), Mystic (1960), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Spellbound (1960), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Astounding Stories (1966), Fantasy Masterpieces (1966), Fear (1970), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)