Dates
- Cover date
- September 1961
- On sale
- June 8, 1961
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #88 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
- Zzutak the Thing That Shouldn't Exist!! · 13 pages
An American comic book artist is forced by an Aztec priest to make a monster with magic paints. The artist creates another monster to fight the first, causing the temple to collapse on both monsters, giving the priest amnesia and ending the threat.
- Snowstorm · 2 pages
A hiker lost in the snow meets a scientist who discovered how to transform other metals into gold but lives in isolation so his discovery will not cause turmoil.
- The Lifeless Man! · 5 pages
A young boy prefers an old wooden toy soldier to more modern toys. His friends make fun of the toy, but when they are threatened by a bear the soldier seems to drive it off with its rifle.
- Punishment! · 5 pages
An advanced civilization sends a mugger to a prison planet. Only a few moments on this world full of war, crime and disease make him go straight in order to avoid ever again coming back to Earth.
Reprinted in
Sinister Tales (1964), Astounding Stories (1966), Fear (1970), Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Fantasy Masterpieces (1966), Monster Masterworks (1989), Monster Menace (1993), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)