—AkarWill you turn back--or must I employ the power of the Golden Brain?
Appearing in "Chapter I - How Will We Keep Warm When the Last Flame Dies? / Chapter II - This Mind, This Universe / Chapter III - No Shortage of Evil!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Omega Environmental Systems (First appearance)
- Paul Benton (First appearance)
- Dr. Arthur Marshall (First appearance)
- WNRV
Antagonists:
- Cult of Entropy (First appearance)
- ⏴ Glob / Golden Brain (Joe Timms) ⏵ (First appearance as Golden Brain) (Name revealed) (Main story and flashback)
Other Characters:
- Unidentified Police Department (Only in flashback)
- Unnamed Police Officer (Only in flashback)
- Leeora Timms (Referenced) (Unnamed)
- Hulk (Bruce Banner) (Only in recap)
- Michelangelo (Mentioned in narration)
- Adam (Mentioned)
- United States Marine Corps (Named only)
Races and Species:
- Man-Things
- Frogs
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Demons (Mentioned)
- Iguanas
- Pelicans
Locations:
- Earth-616 (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- North America (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- Florida
- Everglades
- Man-Thing's Swamp
- Omegaville (First appearance)
- Citrusville (Mentioned in narration)
- Man-Thing's Swamp
- Miami
- Everglades
- California (Only in recap)
- Los Angeles (Only in recap)
- Florida
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- North America (Main story and flashback)
- Garden of Eden (Mentioned)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
Synopsis for "Chapter I - How Will We Keep Warm When the Last Flame Dies? / Chapter II - This Mind, This Universe / Chapter III - No Shortage of Evil!"
The Man-Thing stumbles upon an altercation between two scientists, Paul Benton and Professor Marshall, (who are looking for new renewable energy sources) and the Cult of Entropy. The Cult threatens the two scientists with their Golden Brain. When the globe is exposed from it's carrying case, it causes the Man-Thing pain, and so the Man-Thing attempts to attack them. In defense, the Cult members command the brain to create a monster which battles the Man-Thing. During the fight, the Man-Thing impales the Glob with a tree causing it to explode, the feedback causes the globe which contains the Golden Brain to explode and land in the swamps muck. With the Cult trying to collect the brain back, the scientists are able to get away and continue on their mission.
As the Brain is washed away, it recalls the events that led it to being where it is, as it turns out the brain is really Joseph Timms, the man who was mutated into the Glob and battled the Hulk, his brain surviving the conflict and getting into the hands of the Cult of Entropy. The Brain eventually washes ashore, where it uses it's powers to transform the muck around it into a new human body, and the reborn Timms. With no memory of his previous lives, the being once known as Timms, wanders the swamp.
While in Miami, the Cult members report back to their leader Yagzan, who is not impressed and demands that they go back to the swamps near Citrusville and get the Golden Brain back, at any cost. While back in Citrusville, Benton and Marshall begin building their latest scientific creation: Omegaville, a completely energy self sufficient city. The construction is being silently watched by the Man-Thing. While the construction continues, the two scientists find Timms, and take him in, clothing him and giving him a job on the site, with no name of his own, they call him "Joe". The operations are later explained to Richard Rory, who has come to the site to get the story for the radio station he works for.
That night, the Cult of Entropy returns to the swamps, and Yagzan begins tracking the Golden Brain, when they find it in the form of "Joe", Yagzan takes control of Joe and he transforms into the Glob once more. They set Glob on a rampage which destroys much of Omegaville. This prompts the Man-Thing to enter the fray, and to battle the Glob, beating it until it loses it's corporal form and crumbles into a pile of muck. When Yagzan tries to get control of the creature again, the clay then engulfs his body killing him. With the threat made by the Cult over, the Man-Thing leaves for it's home in the swamp, leaving all the witnesses to figure the aftermath out for themselves.
Appearing in "The Ice-Monster Cometh!"
Featured Characters:
- Hugo Bogg (First appearance) (Impersonates Ice-Monster)
Antagonists:
- Ice-Monster (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Unnamed Jeweler
- Unidentified Police Department
- Unnamed Inspector (First appearance; dies)
- Unnamed Police Officer
- Numerous unnamed villagers
Races and Species:
Locations:
Synopsis for "The Ice-Monster Cometh!"

Appearing in "I Was the Invisible Man!"
Featured Characters:
- Invisible Man (Adam Clayton) (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Professor Howard (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Numerous unnamed criminals
Other Characters:
- First National Bank
- Unnamed Security Guard
- Daily Globe (Named only)
- Unidentified Police Department
- Unnamed Sergeant
- Numerous unnamed police officers
- Unnamed Mailman
- Chronicle (Named only)
- Post Bugle (Named only)
- News Courier (Named only)
- Unnamed Boxing Champion
- Carpenters
- Pete (First appearance)
- Two unnamed carpenters
- Herbie
Races and Species:
Locations:
Items:
- Vibra-Light
Synopsis for "I Was the Invisible Man!"

Appearing in "Goom! The Thing from Planet X! Part 1 / Goom Part 2"
Featured Characters:
- Mark Langley (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Helen Langley (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Goom (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Numerous unnamed statesmen
- Numerous unnamed aliens from Planet X
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-616
- Sol
- Earth
- United States of America
- Unidentified City
- United States of America
- Jupiter (Mentioned)
- Earth
- Planet X
- Sol
Items:
- Goom's Neutron Ray Gun (First appearance)
- Goom's Time Machine (First appearance)
Vehicles:
- Goom's Spacecraft (First appearance)
Synopsis for "Goom! The Thing from Planet X! Part 1 / Goom Part 2"

Notes
Continuity Notes[]
- The recap where Glob faces the Hulk incorrectly places the electric tower in Miami, Florida when it happened in Los Angeles, California during Incredible Hulk #129.
- First appearance of Yagzan and the Cult of Entropy.
Publication Notes[]
- The Man-Thing story is divided into the following three chapters:
- Chapter I: How Will We Keep Warm When the Last Flame Dies?
- Chapter II: This Mind, This Universe!
- Chapter III: No Shortage of Evil!
- "Ice-Monster Cometh!" was originally printed in Amazing Adult Fantasy #11.
- "I Was the Invisible Man!" was originally printed in Strange Tales #67.
- "Goom! The Thing from Planet-X!" was originally printed in Tales of Suspense #15.
Trivia
- Yagzan, the leader of the Cult of Entropy in the Man-Thing story looks suspiciously like former President Richard Nixon.