Dates
- Cover date
- November 1961
- On sale
- August 8, 1961
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #90 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Orrgo... The Unconquerable! · 7 pages
An alien race with immense telepathic and telekinetic powers send one of their kind to conquer Earth. He easily defeats the police and army and freezes Washington, DC in a block of ice, but is killed by a gorilla while resting because he only prepared defences against humans.
- Special Sale · 2 pages
When a husband goes shopping he finds a new cleaning fluid that makes anything better than new, even him.
- A Thousand Years Later... · 6 pages
A scientist prolongs his life for a thousand years, outliving all his friends as Earth becomes overpopulated. When Earth is abandoned he stays behind with one young woman, leaving only the two of them, Adam and Eve, to restart civilization.
- The Inhuman! · 5 pages
In a war against robots, the robots try to find a way to break the human defenses by sending a robot spy disguised as a human. The spy leads them into a trap, and they discover that their spy was a human disguised as a robot.
- Germ Warfare · 5 pages
A medical researcher on a boat enlarges a germ to human size, causing it to attack him and hijack the boat. The germ lands on an island in order to make an army of enlarged germs, but an atomic test destroys it.
Reprinted in
Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Marvel: August 1961 Omnibus (2021), Astounding Stories (1966), Fear (1970), Monster Menace (1993), Creepy Worlds (1962), Uncanny Tales (1963), Fantasy Masterpieces (1966), Chamber of Darkness (1969), Super Giant (1973), Doctor Who Weekly (1979), Monsters Unleashed Prelude (2017), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019), Marvel: August 1961 (2024)