Dates
- Cover date
- November 1961
- On sale
- August 8, 1961
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #25 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
- I Was Captured by the Creature from Krogarr! · 7 pages
A dissolute human is targeted by an alien that can transport items through television sets, but he is saved by his failure to pay the electric bill.
- The Party · 2 pages
A salesman trying to unload some oil stocks thinks that he’s found a rich mark, but instead walks into a party of talking dogs.
- Behold Him! He Is the Martian! · 6 pages
A spy from Jupiter disguised as a human stows away on the first rocket from Earth to Mars. The pilot is a Martian spy disguised as Earthman Dan Blake whose mission is to radio back to Earth that a radiation belt with fatal effects makes attempting to reach Mars too dangerous so Earthmen will give up their attempts to reach Mars. The spy from Jupiter overcomes the Martian and radios Jupiter that travel to Mars is safe, and then radios the Martian's story back to Earth so as to discourage Earthlings from space flight.
- The Gypsy's Revenge! · 5 pages
An American criminal robs an old gypsy man, ignoring his pleas and curses. When he returns to the United States he sees a fortune teller at a circus, and finds the tent suspended in the void, with the fortune teller revealed as the old man.
- Where Lurks the Ghost! · 5 pages
A man spends the night in a haunted house with the house’s caretaker. He thinks that he didn’t see a ghost, but the caretaker was killed years ago.
Reprinted in
Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Marvel: August 1961 Omnibus (2021), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (2006), Creepy Worlds (1962), Creatures on the Loose (1971), Weird Wonder Tales (1973), Creatures on the Loose (1975), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Sinister Tales (1964), Astounding Stories (1966), Where Creatures Roam (1970), Monsters on the Prowl (1971), Chamber of Chills (1972), Monster Masterworks (1989), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019), Marvel: August 1961 (2024)