Dates
- Cover date
- October 1961
- On sale
- August 1, 1961
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #73 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
- Where Will You Be, When...The Spider Strikes! · 7 pages
A physicist working at an atomic research lab in New Mexico goes into work one day with a spider in his pants cuff. The creature is bombarded by the atomic rays and grows to a huge size, gaining the power to think and speak, and then attacks the humans. The physicist tricks the spider into snagging a test missile in its web and when it climbs towards it, the missile detonates and kills the spider.
- The Thread · 2 pages
The mysterious death of a scientist reveals a mystical device and leads to the death of a centuries-old Italian count.
- What Lurks on Channel X? · 6 pages
A couple with a nasty landlord get a free TV set from a stranger. It is a device sent by aliens to enslave Earth by hypnotizing people through the sets in preparation for their landing force. The couple snap out of the hypnosis and the aliens from Pluto realize that their plan has failed and leave Earth. It turns out the landlord took down the antenna that the couple had set up to improve reception of the set, and the couple express their overwhelming gratitude to the puzzled landlord.
- Menace from Mars! · 5 pages
Martians come to Earth to discover if humans represent a threat to them. They question a human using a machine to verify his answers, and find that he is totally free of greed, hatred or deceit. The Martians leave satisfied, unaware that they questioned a mental patient.
- One Look Means Doom! · 5 pages
A couple moves to a cursed castle and the man discovers the imprisoned Medusa. When her powers do not affect him she thinks they have disappeared and accidentally turns herself to stone, not knowing the man is blind.
Publisher’s description
A physicist working at an atomic research lab in New Mexico goes into work one day with a spider in his pants cuff.
Reprinted in
Marvel: August 1961 Omnibus (2021), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Fear (1970), Creepy Worlds (1962), Uncanny Tales (1963), Sinister Tales (1964), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Where Creatures Roam (1970), Monster Menace (1993), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019), Marvel: August 1961 (2024)