Dates
- Cover date
- June 1962
- On sale
- April 3, 1962
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #81 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
- The Ruler of Earth! · 7 pages
In the near future of 1990, humanity has created a computer, named R.O.E. (Ruler of Earth), to settle disputes for it. A handful of communists attempt to re-program the computer to serve their aims, but the computer is incapable of any wrongdoing. Only man, the computer says, has the capacity to be evil.
- The Treasure · 2 pages
A sick boy takes comfort from a stray dog that grants wishes.
- There Dwells a Dragon · 6 pages
Tommy's father takes him to the zoo, but Tommy is only interested in the knights and dragons in his book. Tommy's father passes through a mist at the zoo and emerges in Camelot, where he slays a dragon. When he returns to the present, he recognizes his own face in Tommy's book.
- Kunga · 5 pages
Two hunters investigate reports of a gigantic gorilla, but when they confront it, they discover that the gorilla isn't from Earth at all, and that some times force is not the solution to every problem.
- The Comic Strip! · 5 pages
Cartoonist Nick Nash uses his comic strip to take his revenge on people, but in the end gets an ironic and surreal comeuppance.
Reprinted in
Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Creepy Worlds (1962), Out of This World (1963), Where Monsters Dwell (1970), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)