Dates
- Cover date
- January 1961
- On sale
- August 29, 1960
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #13 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
- Elektro! He Held a World in His Iron Grip! · 7 pages
A scientist creates a computer so sophisticated that it can out think human beings. It hypnotizes the scientist into building it a huge robot body so that it can move and threaten human cities to conquer them. As it gets further from the scientist, the hypnosis fades, and the scientist regains his own will. He rushes Elektro, and enters the robot frame from a small door in its heel, and removes the power source, thus saving humanity.
- The Missing Film · 2 pages
A government agent retrieves a classified microfilm stolen to be given to enemy agents, and is helped by a magic bridge.
- The Demon in the Dungeon! · 6 pages
A novelist rents a castle in Transylvania, where the locals believe a demon lives. He discovers that the creature is a lost alien child, and its parents cure his limp as a reward for helping it get home.
- I Lived a Million Years! · 5 pages
An Asian tyrant bleeds his subjects dry to build a suspended animation machine and avoid nuclear war. He sleeps for a million years, but when he emerges humanity has abandoned Earth and he faces a harsh and primitive world.
- When the Earth Vanished! · 5 pages
Tiny alien invaders decide to detonate their ultimate bomb thinking that unobserved Earthlings have gone into hiding to avoid their invasion force and end up blowing up an Earth boy's ping pong ball and themselves as they are caught in the aftershocks of the blast.
Publisher’s description
A giant robot built to be smarter than human beings craves world domination.
Reprinted in
Creepy Worlds (1962), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (2006), Where Monsters Dwell (1970), Spellbound (1960), Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Zombie (1961), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), The A-Z of Marvel Monsters (2017), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)