Dates
- Cover date
- April 1961
- On sale
- January 5, 1961
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #18 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
- Gorgilla Strikes Again! · 6 pages
Gorgilla stows away on a ship to America to contact the human race, but is met with fear and violence in New York. He stumbles across some communist spies and stops an assassination, but is killed by the military out of fear.
- Part 2...Gorgilla Strikes Again! · 7 pages
- The Stranger · 1.75 pages
A painting of a Napoleonic victory parade is mysteriously linked to an eccentric inhabitant of modern Paris.
- Monsteroso · 5 pages
A creature hatches from an egg and imagines itself lord of all it surveys, but it is suddenly drowned, as it is only a microbe in a scientist's culture.
- Robot on the Rampage! · 5 pages
A robot stationed at a lighthouse rebels against his human master and the man manages to lock the robot outside where the food supply is stashed, but thanks to the salty sea air, it rusts completely within a mere matter of hours rendering it harmless to carry out its threats.
Reprinted in
Sinister Tales (1964), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (2006), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Astounding Stories (1966), Where Creatures Roam (1970), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019), Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Fantasy Masterpieces (1966), Marvel Super-Heroes (1967)