Dates
- Cover date
- September 1961
- On sale
- July 5, 1961
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #72 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
- The Glob · 13 pages
A painter is hired to cover a statue with strange paint. The statue comes to life at midnight and goes on a rampage. The statue is an advance agent for an alien invasion, and the painter defeats it by using turpentine to remove the special paint.
- The Sorcerer · 2 pages
A man who has travelled the world and seen wonders performed by hermits in India returns home to find that his young nephew creates magic with only belief.
- The Patient in Room 3D · 5 pages
Doctors perform an operation to increase brain power, hoping to find an answer to the world's problems, but the patient is still not intelligent enough to solve them. The doctors are disappointed, and allow the patient, a monkey, to regain his natural intelligence.
- Will This Be the End of the World? · 5 pages
A baseball player's mitt is infested with tiny humans with enough rockets to evacuate their entire world as they see the baseball hurling towards them.
Reprinted in
Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Where Creatures Roam (1970), Spellbound (1960), Zombie (1961), Creepy Worlds (1962), Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)