Dates
- Cover date
- October 1956
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Bugs! · 4 pages
- Who Is Raymas? · 4 pages
A woman in a Communist country creates the illusion of a man to take suspicion off of her efforts as a magician to disrupt the government's war production effort.
- The Mystery Man! · 4 pages
A government agent investigates a lecturer promoting a theory of cosmic harmony because the believers are contributing large sums of money to the man. When the agent convinces the lecturer to disband the group, some in the crowd are angered and they jostle the agent so that the gun he keeps in his shoulder holster goes off. The lecturer reveals himself as a being from another dimension, heals his wounds with but a touch, and disappears vowing to return when men no longer place a monetary value on his message of cosmic harmony.
- I Received Letters from Nowhere · 4 pages
An antique dealer sells mail boxes that he drops letters into requesting ten dollars for advice on making money. He is arrested for fraud, but one of the boxes he sold actually did provide wealth-producing letters for its buyer.
- Three Wishes · 2 pages
A ham radio enthusiast picks up a genie on one frequency but wastes his three wishes before he knows what's happening.
- The Man Who Failed · 3 pages
An inventor thinks himself a failure because his previous attempt was to build a machine that traveled through space and now this machine was to go through time, but all it did was produce a wrenching sensation and deposit him in front of normal people. He doesn't realize that the machine actually worked to transport him through space and time to Pluto's past where the civilization there is similar to present day Earth.
- Nobody · 4 pages
An alien from another dimension is asked by his fellows to make the sacrifice of taking a pill that transforms him into a human so that the humans who are investigating his strange appearance will not be motivated to discover his origins.
Reprinted in
Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)