Dates
- Cover date
- March 1961
- On sale
- October 27, 1960
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #17 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
- Vandoom, the Man Who Made a Creature!, Chapter 1 · 6 pages
Vandoom, the owner of a Transylvanian wax museum, sets out to build a new monster in order to bring customers back to the museum. A lightning bolt brings the creature to life, but despite the fearful attacks of the villagers, it is not hostile and does not strike back. An invasion force of Martians lands and Vandoom convinces his creation to attack them. The wax figure defeats them, but the effort drains the life force out of it.
- Chapter 2: The Mark of Vandoom · 7 pages
- The Spirit · 2 pages
A young boy cleans out the attic of the old house his family moved into and meets a ghost from the Revolutionary War era.
- Beware! Of the Ghastly Glass! · 5 pages
A man kills to gain possession of a magic crystal that grants him four wishes, but even his carefully worded wishes backfire, stranding him on the Moon.
- I Dared to Enter the Haunted Room! · 5 pages
A scientist builds an ultimate bomb and plans to use it to hold the world hostage. He hides it in a room believed haunted, but when he goes to give his ultimatum to the UN he realizes that he is now a ghost.
Reprinted in
Sinister Tales (1964), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (2006), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Where Creatures Roam (1970), Astounding Stories (1966), Monster Masterworks (1989), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Monsters Unleashed Prelude (2017), Spellbound (1960), Tower of Shadows (1969), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)