Dates
- Cover date
- March 1971
- On sale
- December 8, 1970
- Pages
- 68
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Zzutak the Thing That Shouldn't Exist!! · 13 pages
An American comic book artist is given magic paints which make whatever is painted with them real. He is compelled to go to Mexico and paint a monster as planned by the Aztec priest who gave him the paints. When he is ordered to paint more monsters, the artist uses his willpower to make his next monster fight the first, causing the temple to collapse on both monsters, giving the priest amnesia and ending his threat.
- I Must Find Korumbu! · 5 pages
- The Man Who Hated Monstro! · 5 pages
A star acrobat is jealous of a popular gorilla at his circus and torments it. Finally, he arranges for the gorilla to break free so that it will be shot, but it has enough strength left to swing out on the trapeze to get revenge.
- The Gentle Old Man! · 5 pages
A greedy landlord is captured by a time traveler who maintains a collection of 'dolls' consisting of miniaturized heartless people from different eras.
- Journey Into Nowhere! · 4 pages
Two scientists working on a time machine have differing opinions about the possibility of traveling into the future. When their attempt to do so seems to take them to the stone age, they believe they have proved travel into the future impossible, not suspecting that they actually saw the world after the destruction of civilization by war.
- A Monster Waits Outside!! · 5 pages
An astronaut is sent into orbit in a tiny sphere without communication. He sees a monster trying to claw its way in and panics, signalling ground control to bring him back. They think that it was a hallucination, but they find a broken claw on the spacecraft.
- Save Me! Save Me! · 5 pages
A scientist makes himself able to walk on water in order to steal secret military plans from a ship. But when he returns to the shore he finds that he now sinks on land.
- The Lifeless Man! · 5 pages
A young boy prefers an old wooden toy soldier to more modern toys. His friends make fun of the toy, but when they are threatened by a bear the soldier seems to drive it off with its rifle, and from then on they all love toy soldiers.
- I Dared to Battle... Rorgg King of the Spider Men!! · 7 pages
Rorgg invades a small New Mexico town and our boy hero kills him dead with a spray can of DDT.
Reprinted in
Adventure into Fear Omnibus (2020)