Dates
- Cover date
- September 1963
- On sale
- June 11, 1963
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #112 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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Stories
- The Living Bomb! · 13 pages
A TV host starts a public campaign against the Human Torch. The Torch’s efforts to regain his popularity fail, but when he stops the high tech thief the Eel from detonating a powerful bomb he is redeemed.
- The Man Who Dared! · 5 pages
A gem merchant hears of the world's largest ruby guarded by a legendary giant statue in Tibet. He travels to Tibet and steals the ruby, but his escape is cut off by a boulder as he drives his jeep down the mountain pass and he is startled to see the giant statue is alive and pursuing him.
- I Saw the Impossible World! · 5 pages
A deserter from the Space Corps of the future finds a replica of his home town and friends on an alien world. A stranger reveals that they are illusions created from the imagination of those who visit this planet and that they disappear. The man is horrified to find that he too is only a figment of the stranger's imagination.
Reprinted in
Weird Planets (1962), Uncanny Tales (1963), Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Marvel Tales (1966), 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), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)