Appearing in "Sserpo! The Creature Who Crushed the Earth!"
Featured Characters:
- Henry Burke (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Thomas Burke (First appearance)
- Anne Burke (First appearance)
- Jupiterians
Antagonists:
- Sserpo (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Island Natives
- Australian Army (Mentioned)
- Royal Australian Air Force
- Japan Air Self-Defense Force
- United States Army
- Inuit Tribe
- United Nations
- Professor Wilkes
Races and Species:
- Lizards
- Humans
- Cats
- Dogs
- Fish
- Gods of Earth (Mentioned)
- Jupiterians
Locations:
- Earthspace
- Sol
- Earth
- North America
- Pacific Ocean
- Island (Unnamed) (Destroyed)
- Kautau Isle (Mentioned)
- Australia
- Asia
- Bering Sea/Strait (First appearance)
- Army Base (Unnamed) (Destroyed)
- Arctic Ocean (First appearance)
- Jupiter
- Earth
- Sol
- Heaven (Invoked)
Items:
- Growth Serum
- Hydrogen Bomb
- Anti-Growth Serum
- Jupiterian Sky-Hook
Synopsis for "Sserpo! The Creature Who Crushed the Earth!"
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Our protagonist, an early SETI pioneer, has a great-grandfather who despairs from failing at creating a growth formula and so tosses it into the ocean. One hundred years later, our story begins where the vial is consumed by a small lizard-like creature. The missing ingredient for the growth formula turns out to be simply water and so Sserpo, as the lizard-like creature is named, begins to grow. The first humans to encounter him pull him into their boat with a net only to find that he is even bigger by the time they reach their island. Sserpo continues to grow until he makes the island sink and heads for Australia, nearly 1000 feet tall. The Australians use rockets to get Sserpo to turn back into the sea and he heads for Japan at nearly 2000 feet tall. The Japanese are worried that he will sink their island and so use an atomic bomb to frighten Sserpo off. The military are worried about his continued growth and so they attempt to slay him with a hydrogen bomb, but Sserpo just shrugs it off. All scientists are panicked, fearing Sserpo will grow so large he will upset the orbit of Earth, but our hero refuses to give in to fear and doggedly continues his attempts using radio equipment to contact the largest planet, Jupiter. He succeeds, and the Jupiterians send a skyhook across space to snag the now-visible-from-space Sserpo off the planet, saving Earth.
Appearing in "Muscle Man"
Strange Tales #48
Featured Characters:
- Jimmy Binn
Supporting Characters:
- Tooloo
Antagonists:
- Muscle Men
Races and Species:
Synopsis for "Muscle Man"
Strange Tales #48
- Synopsis not yet written
Appearing in "The Fourth Man!"
Featured Characters:
- Mr. White (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Fourth Man (Statue)
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Neighborhood Children
- Police Officer (Unnamed)
Races and Species:
Locations:
Synopsis for "The Fourth Man!"
Two thugs attempt to mug a kindly old man in the park when a statue comes to his aid.
Appearing in "Krogg!"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Mr. Smith (Krogg) (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Greenbirch Citizens
- Police Department
- Captain (Unnamed)
- Other Officers (Unnamed)
- Scientists
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth
- United States of America
- Greenbirch (First appearance)
- 218 Elm Street (First appearance)
- Greenbirch (First appearance)
- United States of America
Items:
- Matter-Transmitting Machine
Synopsis for "Krogg!"
A series of houses begin to disappear in Greenbirch, and the Police call in Dr. Droom. He deduces that it had been done using alien science. After checking all the labs in town, the police tell him about an old man with a bunch of gadgets in an apartment building. He tricks the old man into opening the door, and revealing his equipment and the miniaturized houses. The old man shoots him for discovering his secret, but Droom contracts his muscles to deflect the bullets. The old man reveals that he is an alien, and then fades away. Dr. Droom reverses the device to return the buildings.
Notes
- SSERPO! is reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl #27.
- Krogg! is reprinted in Giant-Size Man-Thing #3.
- Dr. Droom is better known as Dr. Druid.