Dates
- Cover date
- July 1962
- On sale
- April 10, 1962
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #98 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
- No Human Can Beat Me! · 7 pages
An alien lands on Earth and issues a challenge to best any man at any contest or the Earth will be invaded. The alien defeats all comers until one man challenges it to sleep longer than him, claiming to have slept for one million years. The alien vows to sleep for two million years. Guards are set up around the cave to keep anyone from disturbing the creature and the man's formerly nagging wife is eternally grateful to him for saving Earth.
- The Party · 2 pages
A salesman trying to unload some oil stocks thinks that he’s found a rich mark, but instead walks into a party of talking dogs.
- They Vanished Forever! · 6 pages
Sailors find the "Flying Dutchman" and take the ship's gold, despite the pleas of the ghost crew. They are turned into ghosts to replace that crew, leaving the man who refused the gold unharmed.
- The TV Fan! · 5 pages
A lazy cad tricks a rich girl into marrying him so that he can watch TV all day. His wife sees her mistake and reveals that she’s a witch, turning him into a fan on the television: a ‘tv fan’.
- A Fortune in Beans! · 5 pages
A bean seller is chagrined to find that he has competition from the Giant, of Jack and Beanstalk fame, who has decided to go into business selling his giant beans.
Reprinted in
Creepy Worlds (1962), Uncanny Tales (1963), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Sinister Tales (1964), Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Fantasy Masterpieces (1966), Where Monsters Dwell (1970), Journey into Mystery (1972), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)