Dates
- Cover date
- May 1961
- On sale
- February 7, 1961
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #19 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
- Rommbu! · 6 pages
An escaped geologist convicted of armed robbery leads an alien invader to an active volcano in order to sacrifice himself to destroy the alien and protect the planet.
- Rommbu! Part Two · 7 pages
- The Tree · 2 pages
When a family moves to a house in the country their son finds a gnarled little tree on their land that grants wishes.
- The Thing with the Red Eyes · 5 pages
A gangster buys a pincushion doll that looks like his rival, and his reactions to pins stuck in it convince him that it works. He throws the doll out the window of a tall building, but his rival has altered the doll to look like him instead.
- The Terrible Trap! · 5 pages
A hunter with contempt for the animals he captures is captured by giant aliens and placed in a maze from which he can see a rocketship he could use to pilot his way home if only he could figure out how to escape the maze.
Reprinted in
Where Monsters Dwell (1970), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (2006), Mystic (1960), Voodoo (1961), Monsters Unleashed Prelude (2017), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Spellbound (1960), Planet of the Apes (1974), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)