Dates
- Cover date
- August 1962
- On sale
- May 8, 1962
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #99 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
- Mister Morgan's Monster · 7 pages
Humanoid robots are banned, but their inventor keeps one in secret, and aliens try to turn it against humanity. It resists and they are forced to flee, but the robot’s inventor thinks that it disobeyed him by leaving hiding, not knowing that it saved humanity.
- Music Master · 2 pages
A struggling band takes on a poor but talented young harp player who turns out to be a young angel studying on Earth.
- The Day Before Doomsday! · 6 pages
A US scientist defects to the USSR and builds a large dome to protect their leaders from retaliation, allowing a massive strike on the US. The dome is really a pod to launch them into space.
- The Man in the Glass Cage! · 5 pages
A sound engineer tries to kill a girl who spurned him using sound waves. When they fail, he is confused, and, is killed by the waves which didn't affect the secretly hard-of-hearing girl.
- A Switch in Time! · 5 pages
In the year 2050 a prisoner reads about the invention of a time machine and so breaks jail to return to the past to rub out the one witness to his crime. However, as he attempts to assault the man, he realizes that he has been rendered intangible like a ghost so as to be unable to effect any change in the course of events.
Reprinted in
Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Uncanny Tales (1973), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Creepy Worlds (1962), Uncanny Tales (1963), Fantasy Masterpieces (1966), Monsters on the Prowl (1971), Weird Wonder Tales (1973), Super Giant (1973), Tomb of Darkness (1974), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)