After the 17th issue, it was cancelled and the series' numbering continued as Blue Beetle vol.

Issue #12 features Ditko's first comic-book cover art.

[2] In 2006, Pure Imagination released the trade paperback Steve Ditko's The Thing!

It also included Ditko stories from Charlton's Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds #5 and #11, Do You Believe In Nightmares #1, Strange Suspense Stories #36, and Unusual Tales #25.

In 2014, the UK publisher PS Artbooks reprinted the entire series in a two-volume hardcover edition.