Dates
- Cover date
- December 1961
- On sale
- September 5, 1961
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #26 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
- Look Out!! Here Come the...Four-Armed Men! · 7 pages
An explorer learns of an invasion of four-armed aliens. His nurse tells him his bodyguard is one of the aliens, but he realizes that she is the real alien.
- The Weatherman · 2 pages
In the future, young boy's afternoon is nearly ruined by a scheduled rainstorm, but when he runs into the rainmaker's magical assistant, he gets a delay.
- He Walked Through Walls! · 6 pages
A stranger performs feats of magic, and offers anything that people might want if they sign a contract. He helps a disgruntled clerk steal money and get away, but the clerk is stranded on an island forever.
- Run, Rocky, Run! · 5 pages
A criminal on the run plans to stow-away on the experimental rocket he reads about, but finds out too late that is an advanced miniature rocket that cannot carry a pilot.
- Dream World! · 5 pages
A man repeatedly dreams that his bed is levitating, and can’t tell if he’s dreaming or not.
Reprinted in
Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (2006), Where Monsters Dwell (1970), Chamber of Chills (1972), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Creepy Worlds (1962), Fear (1970), Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko (2005), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019), Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko (2019)