Dates
- Cover date
- January 1962
- On sale
- November 2, 1961
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (3)
Copies of #76 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Original edition12¢ coverSource ↗
- Black CircleThis edition’s page
- UK pence edition9d [0-0-9 GBP] cover
British
Printed cover price 9d [0-0-9 GBP].
This edition’s page
Creators
Stories
- The Genie with the Light Brown Hair! · 6 pages
A man finds a genie and uses it to fulfill his selfish whims. The genie finally persuades him to let him return to his bottle but tricks him into allowing himself to be trapped there too.
- Tricky Travel · 2 pages
A travel agent has the ability to travel in his dreams, but eventually he grows out of it.
- Mind Over Matter! · 5 pages
A thief meets a lama in the foothills of the Himalayas and is amazed by the feats that he can accomplish with yoga. When he considers using the lama's powers of disappearance for crime, the lama uses them to will him into non-existence.
- Follow the Leader · 7 pages
Space explorers are attacked by alien animals and only make the situation worse by killing the largest beast, which was actually a robot holding the animals in check. They narrowly escape.
- Escape to... Nowhere! · 5 pages
A convict in a prison hospital is set to return to death row when he is better, so he doesn't want the doctor to dismiss him. A fellow prisoner across the room has a window view, and the convict is pleasantly surprised to learn that there are no bars on the window. He resolves to make a break for it after nightfall, but, when he slips out the window, he learns the reason there are no bars is that the hospital room is several stories above the ground.
Reprinted in
Creepy Worlds (1962), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Sinister Tales (1964), Where Monsters Dwell (1970), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)