Dates
- Cover date
- July 1961
- On sale
- April 13, 1961
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #86 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
- I Created Mechano! · 13 pages
A giant robot goes out of control and attacks people, but its creators try to prevent the authorities from destroying it. They encounter a group of alien invaders who were not prepared to face a robot and are driven away, moments before the police arrive and blast Mechano to bits.
- Discovery · 2 pages
A scrawny man is given a magic candy bar that confers great strength, but he discovers that he already posesses more strength than he suspects.
- The Secret of "Georgie's Globe!" · 5 pages
A clumsy boy has a globe which seems to mirror damage done to it in the real world. When the globe is smashed a mysterious force intervenes and a far away dead world explodes.
- Beware of Meeks Bringing Gifts! · 5 pages
Aliens arrive on Earth and give Earth advanced devices that eliminate poverty and conflict. A journalist forces one of them to admit at gunpoint on the air that they are planning an invasion.
Publisher’s description
A giant robot goes out of control and attacks people, but its creators try to prevent the authorities from destroying it.
Reprinted in
Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Sinister Tales (1964), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Astounding Stories (1966), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)