Appearing in "What Was "X" the Thing That Lived! / Part 2 of "X" / Part 3 of "X" / Part 4 of "X""
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Marvel Comics
- Unnamed Editor
- Unnamed Artist
Antagonists:
- Sea Serpent (First appearance; dies)
- Two-Headed Alien (First appearance; dies) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- X, The Thing That Lived (First appearance) (Apparent death)
Other Characters:
- United States Navy (Main story and flashback)
- Office of Naval Intelligence
- Joe
- United States Air Force
- United States Army
- Aladdin (Referenced)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Sea Serpents (Only in flashback)
- Fish (Only in flashback)
- Demons (Mentioned)
- Unidentified alien race (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Unidentified alien race
Locations:
- Earth
- North America
- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- Skyview Hotel
- New York
- United States of America
- Europe (Referenced)
- North America
Items:
- Magic Typewriter (Destroyed)
Synopsis for "What Was "X" the Thing That Lived! / Part 2 of "X" / Part 3 of "X" / Part 4 of "X""
A writer buys an enchanted typewriter that brings his monster stories to life. First he writes of a sea serpent and is visited by navel intelligence who want to learn how he got wind of classified information. They search his apartment, but not finding anything, they chalk it up to coincidence. Later, the writer creates a story about a two-headed flying creature and is visited by the air force. They, too, wish to know how he learned of secret happenings but again accept it as coincidence. Lastly, he writes of X, an invader from another dimension. When he sees on TV that X is really menacing the city, he realizes his writing is bringing the creatures to life and writes an ending for X, but it doesn't effect the monster. The man realizes it must be his typewriter that is infused with magic power, but X attacks him before he can type out the ending. In desperation, he seizes the typewriter and hurls it through the window. With the typewriter smashed, X fades away.
Appearing in "Odd Skills"
Journey Into Mystery #34
Featured Characters:
- Jim Branner (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Bill Toney (First appearance)
Other Characters:
Races and Species:
Locations:
Synopsis for "Odd Skills"
Journey Into Mystery #34
The manager of an auto parts shop develops a sudden tolerance for "human variation" in parts, possibly linked to otherworldly strangers in the shop at night.
Appearing in "One-Way Journey!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Numerous unnamed scientists
Other Characters:
- Numerous unnamed former employees of Adam Gree
- Numerous unnamed Earthlings of the future
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth
- United States of America
- Gree + Co.
- United States of America
Items:
- Time Machine
Synopsis for "One-Way Journey!"
A heartless tycoon spends great resources and eliminates jobs in order to build a machine that will transport him forty years into the future from the current moment to one forty years hence because his scientists have predicted an end to disease, war, and poverty in the year 2001, but he neglects to consider his body will age forty years in what seems to his mind merely an instant and since the machine has only enough power to move forward the one time he's lost most of the years of his life.
