Dates
- Cover date
- June 1961
- On sale
- March 7, 1961
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #20 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
- What Was "X" the Thing That Lived! [, Part 1] · 5 pages
A comic writer's monsters keep coming to life, until he creates one that can't be defeated. The monster is unstoppable physically, but he wills it out of existence.
- [What Was "X" the Thing That Lived!], Part 2 · 5 pages
- [What Was "X" the Thing That Lived!], Part 3 · 3 pages
- [What Was "X" the Thing That Lived!], Part 4 · 5 pages
- Odd Skills · 2 pages
The manager of an auto parts shop develops a sudden tolerance for "human variation" in parts, possibly linked to otherworldly strangers in the shop at night.
- One-Way Journey! · 5 pages
A heartless tycoon spends great resources and eliminates jobs in order to build a machine that will transport him from the current moment to one forty years hence because his scientists have predicted an end to disease, war, and poverty in the year 2001, but he neglects to consider his body will age forty years in what seems to his mind merely an instant and, since the machine has only enough power to move forward the one time, he's lost most of the years of his life.
Reprinted in
Fear (1970), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (2006), Monster Masterworks (1989), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Mystic (1960), Zombie (1961), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Sinister Tales (1964), Doomsday (1972), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)