Dates
- Cover date
- July 1962
- On sale
- April 10, 1962
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #31 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 Monster in the Iron Mask! · 7 pages
A seemingly invincible alien attacks Earth, but a magician realizes that he is using misdirection to keep from facing his one weakness: gas.
- Time Machine · 2 pages
A man's fascination with history leads him to build a time machine and travel to the past, but when he sees the dangers of time travel he destroys the machine and blueprints.
- The Man Who Found Shangri-La! · 6 pages
A thief uses his brother to find Shangri-La. He sees a ruin full of savages and flees into the mountains to die, while his brother finds paradise, since in Shangri-La everyone gets what they deserve.
- The Crackpot · 5 pages
An unsuccessful inventor finally gives up, throwing his final invention away. A boy accidentally uses the gun to disintegrate three communist agents without even noticing.
- The Missing Link! · 5 pages
Scientists find a seemingly primitive man, but they discover that he is really from a future where nuclear war has destroyed civilization.
Reprinted in
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