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No!! Let us never mention that mad universe again!! Who would dream that an invisible atom inside this cube contains a strange savage world... a world called -- Earth!!!

—Professor Dark

Appearing in "Beware!! The Ghosts Surround Me!!"

Reprint of the 3rd story from
Strange Tales #76

Featured Characters:

  • Gustav (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)

Supporting Characters:

  • Hans (First appearance; dies) (Only in flashback)

Antagonists:

  • Romanian Gendarmerie (Only in flashback)
  • Aliens from a Different Dimension (Main story and flashback)

Other Characters:

  • Franz (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
  • Unnamed Man (First appearance) (Only in flashback)

Races and Species:

Locations:

  • Earthspace (Main story and flashback)
  • Unidentified Dimension (Main story and flashback)

Synopsis for "Beware!! The Ghosts Surround Me!!"

Reprint of the 3rd story from
Strange Tales #76
Two robbers flee a crime scene and head towards the woods. One falls, breaking his leg, and the other ruthlessly shoots him as his identity may be found out by the police. Stopping at an abandoned house, the man sees two ghosts, but finds out they are creatures from another dimension, who can't touch him. The man laughs at the situation, imagining other people who have run from the house, believing it to be haunted. The creatures say that perhaps it was wise for them to run, as the man discovers when the police come into the house and he realizes he is trapped eternally between the two dimensions.

Appearing in "I Found the Things from Nowhere"

Reprint of the 4th story from
Journey Into Mystery #60

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

Antagonists:

Other Characters:

  • Bernie (Baseball Player) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
  • Charlie (Mentioned)
  • Bill (Mentioned)

Races and Species:

Locations:

Synopsis for "I Found the Things from Nowhere"

Reprint of the 4th story from
Journey Into Mystery #60
A man messes with his TV and it picks up battle between alien-looking creatures. The man assumes that he must have tuned into the events upon some other planet, but what the TV has actually shown him was a colony of black ants being attacked and destroyed by a colony of red ants right outside his window.
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Appearing in "I Became A Human Robot!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Tales of Suspense #5

Featured Characters:

  • Gammus (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Alien's High Council (First appearance)

Antagonists:

  • Bank Robbers (First appearance)
  • U.S. Government Agents (First appearance)

Races and Species:

Locations:

Vehicles:

  • Alien Ship (First appearance)

Synopsis for "I Became A Human Robot!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Tales of Suspense #5
An alien race wants to invade Earth, but before they do so they send a scout down to find out all the U.S.' military secrets. Transferring his mind into a robot, the alien dazzles the humans until he is taken to Washington to be inspected. While he is being examined by day, he spies on the military at night, until one day, gathering all that they can from the robot, a scientist presses a button on its head, deactivating it and trapping the alien in the robot's body forever.

Appearing in "I Saw the Other World!"

Reprint of the 5th story from
Tales to Astonish #7

Featured Characters:

  • Unnamed Photographer (First appearance)

Antagonists:

  • Unnamed Parallel World Photographer (First appearance)

Other Characters:

  • Numerous unnamed New Yorkers
  • Numerous unnamed residents of a parallel dimension

Races and Species:

  • Humans
  • Parallel World's People (First appearance)
  • Birds (Only in flashback)

Locations:

Items:

  • Parallel World's Camera (First appearance)

Synopsis for "I Saw the Other World!"

Reprint of the 5th story from
Tales to Astonish #7
A man, finding an odd camera lying in the street, is convinced that he has seen another dimension after he develops the pictures he has taken, as they show a futuristic city and people. Telling the first person he sees, the man does not believe him and suddenly a thunderstorm rolls in. A bolt of lightning strikes close to them and a hand emerges from what seems to be a force-field and grabs the camera. The man he had been talking to has disappeared and the first man walks away confused. On another planet, the second man is seen showing photos of Earth to a futuristic man, who doesn't believe that another dimension can exist.

Appearing in "Those Who Change"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Amazing Adult Fantasy #10

Featured Characters:

  • Two unnamed scientists (First appearance)
  • Two unnamed scientists (Reptile's World) (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Unnamed Professor (First appearance)

Other Characters:

Races and Species:

Locations:

Items:

  • Time Machine (First appearance)

Synopsis for "Those Who Change"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Amazing Adult Fantasy #10
A human colleague warns his friends to give up their dangerous time travel experiments lest they alter the entirety of recorded history. He leaves, and the two scientists scoff at his warning since they are unshaken in their belief that the past cannot be changed. They send a camera back to the earliest beginnings of life where it bonks a creature on the head that was just beginning to emerge from a tide pool knocking it back into the water. When they recover the camera in their present and examine its records, they state, "The professor was wrong! Nothing has changed! We knew that the present could never be affected by what happens in the past! And we were right, as usual!" (The last panel shows the two scientists are now reptilian creatures.)
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Notes

  • Featuring an inside article about Stan Lee.
  • The cover of this issue merely contains vignettes from interior stories by the stories respective artists.
  • This series begins as a reprint of several horror Pre-Hero comics. Super-Hero Comics will begin in Fantasy Masterpieces #3, with Golden Age reprints of Captain America Comics.

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