Dates
- Cover date
- March 1961
- On sale
- October 27, 1960
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #15 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
- Goom! The Thing from Planet X!, Part 1 · 6 pages
After attracting the hostile attention of Goom of Planet X, a scientist realizes that any civilization possessing such advanced technology must be benevolent and that his radar transmissions must have been intercepted by a criminal. He rebroadcasts to Planet X, and the Earth officials plan to execute him as a traitor summoning a full invasion fleet from Planet X, when the representatives from Planet X arrive and stop the execution and take Goom into their custody and leave the planet.
- Masquerade · 2 pages
A man with no imagination is invited to a costume party by his girlfriend, but stumbles across real fairy-tale folk instead.
- Goom, Part 2 · 7 pages
- I Am the Living Ghost! · 5 pages
A man enters a castle determined to prove that there are no ghosts, but the events he experiences convince him that the castle is haunted, and so he flees. It turns out that the castle does not contain any ghosts, but is possessed by animated suits of armor and living stone gargoyles.
- Moomboo! · 5 pages
A shaman cons his tribe, but when a seemingly magic idol appears he attacks it and it vanishes. It was an extra-dimensional scout, and its experience decides its people not to contact Earth.
Reprinted in
Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (2006), Creepy Worlds (1962), Sinister Tales (1964), Giant-Size Man-Thing (1974), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Monsters Unleashed Prelude (2017), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Uncanny Tales (1963), Dracula Lives (1974), Giant-Size Dracula (1974), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)