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Strange Tales #92

Marvel · Series began 1951 · January 1962

Dates

Cover date
January 1962
On sale
September 28, 1961
Pages
36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #92 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Creators

script: Stan Leepencils: Jack Kirby, Don Heck, Steve Ditkoinks: Dick Ayers, Don Heck, Steve Ditkocolors: Stan Goldbergletters: Artie Simek, John Duffy

Stories

  • The Thing Hunts for Me! · 7 pages

    An old man in a boarding house tells a woman that is being hunted by a shape-shifting alien. He dies of a heart attack and the woman is relieved, since she is the alien and will not have to kill him.

  • The Flying Saucer That Was · 2 pages

    A teacher frantically tries to convince people that he saw aliens, but it turns out that they are friendly and make him their ambassador.

  • The Man Who Shrunk the World! · 6 pages

    A man from the future travels back to the 1960s to conquer the world with a shrinking gas. When he tests the gas on himself he becomes too small to release the antidote and shrinks to nothingness.

  • Somewhere Sits a Lama · 5 pages

    A villager sneaks into a nearby monastery to find the secret of eternal life. He finds the secret, but in order to live forever he must stay motionless in one room until someone comes to take his place.

  • Inside the Flying Saucer! · 5 pages

    This story shows an audience watching a film of alien invasion. When the film ends, the audience leaves the theatre and looks up at the Earth from their home on Mars.

Reprinted in

Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Where Monsters Dwell (1970), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Mystic (1960), Voodoo (1961), Uncanny Tales (1963), Astounding Stories (1966), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)

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