Dates
- Cover date
- [September] 1963
- On sale
- June 11, 1963
- Pages
- 76
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- On the Trail of the Amazing Spider-Man! · 18 pages
An art thief frames Spider-Man and the Human Torch tries to hunt him down. Spider-Man convinces the Torch of his innocence, and the two track down the thief together.
- I Was the Invisible Man! · 7 pages
A scientist invents a device that allows him to run faster than light, becoming invisible. He uses this ability to anonymously show off, planning to soon reveal his discovery and become rich. However, traveling so fast ages him rapidly, so that after only a few weeks he is elderly and near death.
- I Was Prisoner on the Planet of Plunder! · 5 pages
An interstellar detective takes a cargo pilot's place to find out how ships are being robbed without anyone remembering anything. On an unarmed planet, the natives try to take his cargo and hypnotize him with sound waves, it doesn't work because the detective is deaf.
- I Am Robot · 5 pages
A man creates a robot so advanced that it has the capacity to think and feel as a human. He entrusts his son to it, but when the robot is damaged while defending the child from alien abductors, the scientist's suspicious wife is convinced that it malfunctioned, and he abandons the project.
- Worlds within Worlds! · 4 pages
- I Was the Man Who Lived Twice! · 5 pages
A boy adopted by gypsies refuses to work hard and lives a wasted life. As he reaches middle age, he is given a second chance at life when he is shown a fountain of youth and returned to infancy, to be found and adopted by another gypsy couple.
- I Fly to the Stars! · 4 pages
- Prison, 2000 A.D. · 5 pages
- I Am the Scourge of Atlantis! · 5 pages
The king of Atlantis is convinced that life still exists on the surface and leads an invasion fleet to make war on the world above. He finds that in the centuries since Atlantis sunk the pressures of the sea have made his people tiny as insects compared to surface humans, and they must return beneath the waves.
- Nightmare Planet · 5 pages
- I Captured the Abominable Snowman! · 6 pages
A man lies, cheats and steals to find the abominable snowman, and eventually discovers a lama who knows the secret of the snowman and is forced to summon it. He discovers that the snowman was a greedy man like him, cursed to wear a bestial form until another took his place. He is horrified as the snowman becomes human and he is transformed into a monster.
Characters
Reprinted in
The Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus (2007), Giant-Size Spider-Man (1974), Essential Human Torch (2003), Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (2006), Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (2014), The Human Torch & The Thing: Strange Tales - The Complete Collection (2018), Decades: Marvel in the '60s - Spider-Man Meets the Marvel Universe (2019)