Dates
- Cover date
- January 1962
- On sale
- September 26, 1961
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #8 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 Coming of the Krills · 5 pages
The alien Krill offer the most beautiful woman in the universe to an earthman if he will betray his native planet but finds to his regret that beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder.
- Everyone Likes a...Ghost Story · 5 pages
A swindler buys a castle with the intention of faking it as a haunted attraction, but then he meets a real ghost and dies of heart failure thus ends up legitimately haunting the castle.
- The Eyes of Edward Morgo · 3 pages
A hypnotist replaces a movie theater's film real with a film of his performance intending to put the audience in a trance while he gets up and relieves them of their valuables. He's a better hypnotist than he thought as he succeeds in hypnotizing himself.
- The Yo-Yo · 5 pages
A child and his mother take a vacation in time visiting the spot where an ancestor lives. He mistakenly leaves his hi-tech toy yo-yo behind when he returns to the future and it is found and played with for a while by his father-to-be.
- A Monster Among Us · 5 pages
An alien ambassador lands on Earth and, because of its monstrous appearance, is driven away. It drops a note written in English before fleeing welcoming Earth to the brotherhood of planets and offering to abolish war, disease and poverty as benefits of membership in the galactic order.
Reprinted in
Amazing Fantasy Omnibus (2007), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019), Creepy Worlds (1962), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Sinister Tales (1964), Marvel Tales Annual (1964)