—TorrA small unimportant planet...inhabited by an inferior race! Yet the oxygen atmosphere is suitable for Torr! This planet will make a good satellite for my world!
Appearing in "Torr - Part 1 / Torr! - Part 2"
Featured Characters:
- Paul Ramsay (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- John Carter (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
Antagonists:
- Torr (First appearance; dies)
Other Characters:
- Unnamed Judge
- Unnamed Prosecutor
- Torr (First appearance; vision or hallucination)
- NYPD
- Unnamed Police Officer
- Unnamed Coroner
- Julius Caesar (Invoked)
Races and Species:
- Unidentified alien species (Only in flashback)
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Mosquitoes (Mentioned in narration)
- Ghosts (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Earth-616 (Main story and flashback)
- Sol (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- North America (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- Unidentified Mountain Observatory (Only in flashback)
- New York (Only in flashback)
- New York City (Only in flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- Earth Orbit (Only in flashback)
- North America (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Unidentified Planet (Referenced)
- Sol (Main story and flashback)
- Earth-Unknown (Vision or hallucination) (Only in flashback)
- Earth (Vision or hallucination) (Only in flashback)
- United States of America (Vision or hallucination) (Only in flashback)
- New York (Vision or hallucination) (Only in flashback)
- New York City (Vision or hallucination) (Only in flashback)
- New York (Vision or hallucination) (Only in flashback)
- United States of America (Vision or hallucination) (Only in flashback)
- Unidentified Planet (Referenced)
- Earth (Vision or hallucination) (Only in flashback)
Items:
- Torr's Instrument (First appearance; destruction)
Vehicles:
- Torr's Spaceship
Synopsis for "Torr - Part 1 / Torr! - Part 2"

Two astronomers watch with apprehension the approach of a space ship. When it lands, a ruthless alien warrior named Torr threatens them with the subjection of Earth. Torr mentally switches bodies with one of them in order to observe Earth culture and places a device on the wrist of the other that he says will act as a beacon to his home planet should the astronomer attempt to speak of Torr's plans. The man grabs a policeman's revolver and shoots Torr's occupied human body dead. This leads to his arrest and trial, whereupon the jury is about to give its verdict, when the man they all thought the victim of the shooting enters the courtroom and informs them of the previous events. When the astronomer shot the body Torr was occupying it forced Torr's personality to return to his true body, where Torr seemingly died and the beacon device crumbled, freeing the Earth from deadly threat.
Appearing in "Masquerade"
Featured Characters:
- Tommy (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Kitty Blake (First appearance)
- Old King Cole (O.K.C.) (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Santa Claus (Mentioned in narration)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-616
- Earth
- United States of America
- Missouri (Mentioned in narration)
- Hollywood, Los Angeles, California (Mentioned)
- United States of America
- Earth
Items:
- Hickory Dickory Dock (Mentioned in narration)
- There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe (Mentioned in narration)
- Alice in Wonderland (Mentioned in narration)
Synopsis for "Masquerade"
Appearing in "Midnight in the Wax Museum"
Featured Characters:
- Pierre La Roc (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Wax Creatures
- Zeus (Statue)
- Unnamed Neanderthal (Statue)
- Numerous unidentified creatures (Statue)
Other Characters:
- Police Nationale
- Three unnamed police officers
Races and Species:
- Humans
- Neanderthals (Statue)
- Olympians (Statue)
Locations:
Synopsis for "Midnight in the Wax Museum"

A thief thinks that he can hide from the police in a wax museum until the wax figures leave their displays and chase him into the waiting arms of the law.
Appearing in "I am the Fantastic Dr. Droom!"
Featured Characters:
- Doctor Droom (Anthony Droom) ⏵ (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Ramu (First appearance; unnamed) (Lama's Chief Aide)
- Yao (First appearance; unnamed) (Apparent death) (Lama)
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Medical Club
- Three unnamed members
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-616
- Earth
- North America
- United States of America
- Unidentified City Medical Club
- United States of America
- Pacific Ocean
- Asia
- North America
- Earth
Synopsis for "I am the Fantastic Dr. Droom!"
A doctor from the United States answers the call from a Tibetan lama but when he arrives is told there will be no payment. He must cross burning coals and face the dangerous half-gorilla, half-lion Gorlion. He passes the lama's tests, but finds the lama is not suffering from disease, merely dying of natural old age. The lama alters the man's appearance to that of an Asiatic mystic and transfers mystical powers to him so that he may battle the occult forces of evil as Dr. Droom.
Notes
Continuity Notes[]
- Much of what is seen in "I am the Fantastic Dr. Droom!" will be retconned in Weird Wonder Tales #19, such as Droom's surname and super persona being altered from Droom to Druid as well as some of his physical characteristics and the power given is from the "ancient Britons".
- Ramu is not specifically mentioned, but at the end of the story, the chief aide states, "As I faithfully served the master, so shall I serve you!" In the next issue, Ramu is identified as Dr. Droom's 'faithful companion.'
- It is later revealed in Avengers Spotlight #37 that the Lama in this the Ancient One, who turned Anthony into Dr. Druid to prepare for the arrival of Dr Strange.
Publication Notes[]
- "Torr - Part 1 / Torr! - Part 2" is reprinted in Strange Tales #175.
- "Midnight in the Wax Museum" is reprinted in Strange Tales #175.
- "I am the Fantastic Dr. Droom!" is reprinted as "I am Dr. Druid!" in Weird Wonder Tales #19.
- Paul Ramsay's name is spelt two different ways throughout the comic. It is not known which was the intended proper spelling.