Dates
- Cover date
- January 1962
- On sale
- September 28, 1961
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #25 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 Death of Monstrollo · 7 pages
A movie producer's next film is a sci-fi picture featuring a giant robotic monster. Bad press convinces him to abandon the project but just as he's about to disassemble the robot, an alien invasion fleet lands. He sends the robot lumbering towards them and they ineffectively fire their nerve weapons at it. Next, they try gas, which of course has no effect on the machine either. Panicked, they flee to their saucers resolving never to return. People express their sympathy to the movie producer that all that money was spent with nothing to show for it, but he knows better.
- The Heat's On · 2 pages
When a young boy builds a fan to help his family get through a heat wave it brings down the flying saucer that caused the heat.
- The Unseen · 6 pages
A scientist is contacted by a communist agent who offers him a million dollars for research into an invisibility ray. The man's greed makes him accept treason and he succeeds, but he finds that after testing the ray upon himself, he has become intangible as well and has no way of turning on the switch of the antidote ray.
- The Hidden Face · 5 pages
An alien bigot attempts to preach hate by hiding his face under a hood. When he assaults one of the people he is defaming he flees the police to escape capture. When he attempts to remove the hood, he finds another underneath it. He tries again, and there is still another, always another hood. A policeman shakes his head sadly as he walks away from his cell, the bigot convinced he would never have been captured if not for all these hoods. He continues to remove hood after hood with his hands, but there is nothing there.
- The Enchanted Paint · 5 pages
An untalented painter gains success when a gypsy gives him magic paints, but he becomes obsessed with beauty and abandons his lover. The gypsy casts another spell, making his former love seem beautiful to him.
Reprinted in
Creepy Worlds (1962), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (2006), Sinister Tales (1964), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Spellbound (1960), Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Astounding Stories (1966), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)