Dates
- Cover date
- November 1961
- On sale
- August 31, 1961
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #74 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 Thing in the Black Box! · 7 pages
A shipwrecked man meets the legendary Pandora, who tricks him into releasing the demons from her box. Humanity is helpless against the demons, but the man forces Pandora to recall them by dispelling her illusory beauty.
- The Remedy Oil · 2 pages
An old-fashioned shopkeeper unwittingly saves the life of a boy from Mechanica when her remedy oil lubricates the gears in his brain.
- Midnight in the Wax Museum · 6 pages
An artist falls asleep in a wax museum and after midnight he is awoken by a sound. When he investigates, he finds that the wax figures are really aliens who are observing humans. He flees and summons the police, who attack the aliens with tear gas. The entire wax museum begins to shudder and the whole building lifts off into space. They leave behind a book which states that their intent was to pass along beneficial knowledge, but the humans are too dangerous and perhaps they will return in a thousand years.
- The Mechanical Men! · 5 pages
An alien plot to infiltrate Earth with robotic dolls is unwittingly foiled by a police officer trying to get rid of peddlers.
- Forever Is a Long Long Time! · 5 pages
A greedy businessman bullies a scientist into giving him a device that can give humans the 1,000-year lifespan of a giant redwood. He ignores the scientist's warnings and uses the ray on himself alone in his mansion, finding to his horror that the ray also renders its subject as immobile as a redwood.
Publisher’s description
A shipwrecked man meets the legendary Pandora, who tricks him into releasing the demons from her box.
Reprinted in
Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Marvel: August 1961 Omnibus (2021), Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Weird Planets (1962), Uncanny Tales (1963), The X-Men (1963), Sinister Tales (1964), Astounding Stories (1966), Where Monsters Dwell (1970), Journey into Mystery (1972), Doctor Who Weekly (1979), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019), Marvel: August 1961 (2024)