Dates
- Cover date
- February 1962
- On sale
- November 9, 1961
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #93 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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Creators
Stories
- When the Thing Runs Amok! · 7 pages
An inventor builds a robot, but others are afraid of it. The robot goes on a rampage and is dropped into the sea. It leaves a letter saying that it will emerge when humanity learns tolerance.
- The Magician · 2 pages
A TV studio page and aspiring magician gets a lucky break when he meets a real sorcerer time traveling from the past.
- Earth Will Be Lost Tonight! · 6 pages
An agent signs a singer who is an instant hit. He discovers that the singer is an alien whose next record will help his people conquer Earth, and manufactures a scandal to ruin the alien’s career.
- Mister Black · 5 pages
A Japanese youth doesn’t want to fight in World War 2. A stranger named Mr. Black saves him, but only so he will be where he was fated to be in 1945, in Hiroshima as the bomb falls.
- The Wax People! · 5 pages
The mannequins in a store come to life in a creepy atmosphere as it closes. However, this is not thought odd by anyone, because on this alien world all people are made of wax, and some work as mannequins, but leave with everyone else at closing.
Reprinted in
Sinister Tales (1964), Monsters on the Prowl (1971), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Astounding Stories (1966), Fear (1970), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)