Uncanny Tales #164

In "The Saga of the Sneepers!", the Watcher [Uatu] observes as an alien race known as the Sneepers grapple with the uneasy prospect of humanity's rise. As Earth teeters on the brink of self-destruction during the Cold War, the Sneepers weigh whether to intervene—or simply wait and watch.

Frank Atwell wakes from a nightmare only to find the dream world closing in—where the monster he feared was real all along. As his sleep deepens, he begins to question whether the world he thought was real was just a dream, and if the monster was ever truly a threat—or something far more personal.

In a clash of civilizations, Prince Sunor and Rakku the Terrible find themselves at odds when the barbaric Vulcans threaten the pacifist Idylicans. With no desire to fight, the Idylicans retreat, reshaping their world’s gravity to ensnare the invaders and claim their abandoned homes as their own.

In "Them!", Adam Bentley finds himself trapped in a nightmare where the storybook figures he once imagined are now hunting him through the streets. As he pleads with bewildered strangers, the line between fiction and reality shatters—especially when he vanishes from a police cell, revealing his true origin as a creation of writer Larry Lieber.