Dates
- Cover date
- December 1961
- On sale
- September 5, 1961
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #24 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 Insect Man · 7 pages
A soldier is placed underground in a capsule to test the effects of isolation. He is attacked by a telepathic insect. They blame the experience on stress, but a piece of the insect is on the pod.
- Mystery Pupil · 2 pages
A dull teacher earns accolades by accidentally helping capture a Martian criminal.
- Beware...the Ticking Clocks! · 6 pages
A king is beset by an assassin in the king's clockroom whereupon the assassin is magicked into yet another figurine upon the king's favorite timepiece.
- Something Lurks in the Fog! · 5 pages
An unrepentant con-man is scared straight when he strays onto a forbidden road and enters a world between life and death.
- Long Live the King! · 5 pages
A greedy prince marries a dowager queen. He tries to use her sleepwalking to cause her death, but the portrait of her husband calls out to warn her, and ghostly hands push the prince to his death.
Reprinted in
Creepy Worlds (1962), Where Monsters Dwell (1970), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (2006), Sinister Tales (1964), Doomsday (1972), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Mystic (1960), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Astounding Stories (1966), Doomsday Annual (1974), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)