Dates
- Cover date
- February 1962
- On sale
- December 5, 1961
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #77 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Original edition12¢ coverSource ↗
- UK pence edition9d [0-0-9 GBP] cover
British
Printed cover price 9d [0-0-9 GBP].
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Stories
- Beware! He Isn't Human! · 7 pages
A Hollywood special effects man builds an android to slay a woman who rejected his advances because she was "waiting". After he sends the robot to the museum where she works, he relaxes for a sufficient time, and then is startled when she appears at the door with the robot. She reveals that she too, is a robot, and she was "waiting" for a robot to be a mate. The two machines slowly approach him as he backs towards an open window which he falls through.
- The Radio · 2 pages
A ham radio enthusiast picks up a genie on one frequency but wastes his three wishes before he knows what's happening.
- I Don't Believe in...Ghosts! · 6 pages
A man offers fifty thousand dollars to anyone who can show him a ghost but, time after time, he proves that there is a rational explanation behind the sightings. It turns out he does this because he is a ghost himself, and wants to prevent haunted houses from being demolished, rendering their occupants homeless.
- When Aliens Walk the Earth! · 5 pages
Earth is terrified by the appearance of a flying saucer, but the people are relieved to see the aliens are small and elf-like. They explain that they are peaceful and open contact, changing after they leave into their true insectoid forms, which would have frightened the humans into attacking them.
- They Were Only Scarecrows! · 5 pages
A man tries to get his uncle, who talks to scarecrows, committed to an asylum so that he can take over his farm. When he takes the sheriff out to speak with his uncle the sheriff returns visibly shaken and tells the nephew to butt out of the farmer's business. The farmer has revealed to the sheriff that the reason he talks to the scarecrows as his friends is that he himself is one.
Reprinted in
Sinister Tales (1964), Uncanny Tales (1963), Fantasy Masterpieces (1966), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Creepy Worlds (1962), Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Astounding Stories (1966), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)