Dates
- Cover date
- March 1958
- Pages
- 72
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Elixir · 5 pages
Ezra Benton is given a youth elixir by aliens but when his wife ruins his chance to make his fortune with it he finally decides to live for himself.
- The Shadow · 3 pages
An shadow follows a double-crossing criminal.
- The Egg and...! · 5 pages
A scientist dreams worlds are like fish eggs.
- The Best Policy · 4 pages
- Great Performance · 5 pages
Inspector Faine intends to expose the killer of actor Jerome Travis by hiring someone to impersonate him at a seance. But Travis has never missed an appearance yet and doesn't intend to miss this one.
- But for Bluey · 2 pages
George is rescued from a drifting fishing boat, thanks to his cat.
- Granny Broomstick's Tales for Taller Tots! -- Jack Spratt · Granny Broomstick · 5 pages
A circusman hires Jack Spratt and his wife, but when they refuse to work together, he arranges to have them hypnotized to love each other. But his scheme does not work out as planned.
- Mystery Planet · 6 pages
- The Ghostly Wanderer · 2 pages
Long lost at sea, the Wanderer finally arrives at port without a soul aboard and no clue as to the fate of the crew.
- The Thing in the Swamp · 5 pages
John Stanton secretly bases his theory of parallel evolution on an encounter in a swamp.
- The Strange World: The Thinking Ape · 2 pages
The true story of Johann Gregor Mendel, the "father of genetics".
- Paul's Pills · 2 pages
- Failure · 5 pages
Karl Phalen creates a machine to see the future, but to avoid the future he sees he must keep the machine a secret.
- The Living Monsters · 1 pages
Brief, true story of the dinosaurs.
- The Strange Package! · 6 pages
A doctor is sent a medical bag from the future.
Reprinted in
Creepy Worlds (1962), Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Sinister Tales (1964), The Steve Ditko Archives (2009), Steve Ditko's The Thing! (2006), Uncanny Tales (1963), Space War (1959), Weird Planets (1962), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Astounding Stories (1966), Beyond the Grave (1975), Steve Ditko Reader (2002), America's Greatest Comics (2002), Steve Ditko: Space Wars (2005), Crypt of Horror (2005), Ditko's Shorts (2014)