Dates
- Cover date
- June 1956
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- When Walks the Scarecrow? · 4 pages
A scarecrow is animated by lightning and sacrifices itself to seal up a hole in a dam with its own body.
- Last Planet · 2 pages
- Inside the Cave! · 4 pages
Strange gas from a rock shrinks Fred in size. He meets a civilization of tiny people who want the rest of humanity shrunk but Fred tricks them into fitting their gas into a waste pipe, then escapes, returning to normal size. The gas is blown into the ocean where it shrinks a whale.
- The Man Who Saw Too Much · 3 pages
A man gains the power to see one day into the future. Scientists have his nearsightedness corrected and he sees even further, looking 400 years into the future, but now his predictions of the future are too fantastic to believe.
- Hiding Place · 4 pages
Morton's new camera picks up images of alien men. He thinks the infra-red film is picking up invisible beings but actually the aliens are tiny and hiding inside his camera.
- The Man from Nowhere · 4 pages
Joe's shaving cream bottle unleashes Lance, a genie who looks like Joe and tries to repair his relationship with Linda by offering her the adventure she claims to crave. But after being terrified by Lance's powers Linda settles for the averageness of Joe.
- Who Lurks Down There · 4 pages
Jaime finds a city on the bottom of the ocean where Ponce de Leon lives, having found the water there grants immortal youth. Jaime drinks the water himself and wants to share it with others, but de Leon refuses and imprisons him. Jaime escapes and tells others of his discovery, but having left the underwater city Jaime's youth has deserted him - now he's an old man.
Reprinted in
Uncanny Tales (1963), Creepy Worlds (1962), Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Sinister Tales (1964), Steve Ditko: Edge of Genius (2008), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)