Published: November 1962
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"Bring me one Earthling who dares to accept my challenge!!"
Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 August 2006). A new logo appears beginning this issue.
"I'm only two million miles from Mars!"
A veteran space pilot is forced to retire because of his lack of experience with newer equipment, but an alien visitor gives Earth a challenge that only he can pass. After succeeding, he is appointed to command the space patrol, but the alien visitor was really the pilot in disguise.
The last page includes an advertisement for Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (1962).
"This frantic figure you see digging in the desert is Albert Cragg, the only..."
A scientist creates a time machine to travel back to ancient Egypt in order to pose as a magician and find the location of a great treasure. He is trapped in the past when his time machine is buried with the Pharaoh.
"There are very few witchmen left today, so you will probably..."
An untalented bald actor wants to receive the leading parts in plays so he goes to a witchman for a potion that will help him. The witchman tells him that he does have such a potion but does not want to give it to him, because it is too dangerous. The actor is heedless and pulls a gun on him. The witchman relents and gives the actor the potion, but the actor finds that after drinking it he can only find work as a circus freak because his hair grows so quickly.
"Behold---the future!"
Robots make Earth into a living paradise, but humans grow fearful and oppress them. The robots leave for another planet, where they build and oppress their own robots while Fate laughs.
"When Bill Barton entered his two-room flat that evening, he was..."
A ham radio enthusiast picks up a genie on one frequency but wastes his three wishes before he knows what's happening.
Text story with illustration.
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