Dates
- Cover date
- November 1960
- On sale
- June 27, 1960
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- A Martian Walks Among Us! · 7 pages
A man spots upon a Martian in human form scouting for an invasion. The police won’t believe him, so he finds and kills the spy himself, revealing that he is a Venusian in disguise working to protect Earth.
- Trouble Bubble · 2 pages
A boy discovers a formula to blow unbreakable bubbles and accidentally entraps his father's boss.
- The Fantastic Menace of Mento the Mighty · 6 pages
A scientist discovers his own innate psychic power and builds a machine to slowly enhance it. He is nearly omnipotent after more than a decade, but when his assistant betrays him he finds his muscles too atrophied to repair the device and his powers vanish.
- The Gargoyle! · 5 pages
An ugly man rejected by society applies for a job at a circus. It turns out to be a ruse by aliens who are uniformly gorgeous, and so want a man with an ugly face they find fascinating to marry their queen.
- Dear Reader: What Would You Have Done if You Were the… Worm Man · 5 pages
A spy calling himself 'Worm Man' uses shrinking pills to easily discover military secrets. On a crucial mission, he is attacked by a rat and loses his growth pills, trapping him forever in his tiny form.
Publisher’s description
A man spots upon a Martian in human form scouting for an invasion.
Reprinted in
Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Sinister Tales (1964), Where Monsters Dwell (1970), Strange Tales Annual (1962), Creepy Worlds (1962), Tower of Shadows (1969), Monster Masterworks (1989), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)