Dates
- Cover date
- February 1963
- On sale
- November 8, 1962
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #38 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 Teen-Ager Who Ruled the World! · 11 pages
An arrogant teen-ager finds a genie's lamp and tries to make the world perfect, but finds that all his wishes have unexpected results.
- We Can't All Be Human! · 7 pages
Seemingly friendly aliens arrive on Earth, seeking refuge from pirates, but a philosophy student figures out that the first visitors are the pirates, and disguised themselves to appear pleasant to humans.
- Blueprint for Victory · 2 pages
A cunning spy infiltrates German HQ with a phoney blueprint as bait and paralyzes communications before a major US assault.
- The Man in the Mirror! · 5 pages
A millionaire buys an enchanted mirror that allows him to wish any person he dislikes to be trapped inside of it. He wishes dozens of people into the mirror until he is contacted by agents of the IRS who wish to audit his books. He briefly considers wishing them into the mirror, but realizes that the government would just send more, so he decides to wish that no one will ever bother him again. He gets his wish, as he finds that all the people who were trapped in the mirror have been released and now he is its sole prisoner.
Reprinted in
Weird Planets (1962), Uncanny Tales (1963), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (2006), Tomb of Darkness (1974), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)