Dates
- Cover date
- July 1961
- On sale
- May 2, 1961
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #70 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Original edition10¢ coverSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Sandman Cometh! · 13 pages
A family stumbles across a hostile alien made of sand. The military are helpless, but it is defeated by the family’s bookish son, who uses water to dissolve it and traps it in a bucket.
- Bird Talk · 2 pages
A meeting with a strange man gives a boy an unusual way of getting a pet bird, talking to birds.
- A Thousand Years · 5 pages
A convict is offered freedom and a thousand years of life by a mysterious stranger in return for his name on a contract. He signs, and finds himself freed, and sealed in a rocket flying away from Earth. He feels neither hunger or thirst, so he will live a thousand years alone.
- The Stone Man · 5 pages
An old man prays to the statue of a local hero for help for the local poor. His prayers are answered, but his neighbors cheat him out of his share of the statue’s gift. The statue comes to life, punishes the villagers and takes the old man to heaven.
Reprinted in
Uncanny Tales (1963), Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Creepy Worlds (1962), Monsters on the Prowl (1971), The Mighty World of Marvel (1972), Kull, the Destroyer (1973), Crypt of Shadows (1973), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)