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Appearing in "A Meeting of Blood"

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Appearing in "When the Moon Dripped Blood"

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One morning, Jack Russell receives a surprise visit at his step-father's home from his actress friend, Clary Winter. She tells him their friend Buck Cowan has sold a movie script to Brad Wrangle. The studio stunt-coordinator wants to move into production, and has hired Clary to star, as well as wanting Jack to perform stunt-work. Jack agrees, thinking the remote shooting location will provide an opportunity to slip away when he is about to transform.

The cast and crew arrive at the shooting location, Serenity Springs, to find a mostly deserted town, whose few remaining residents walk about in a daze.

The filming begins, and Jack performs a stunt requiring to swing on a rope at a canyon rim. An actor fires a rifle at him, but instead of the expected blanks, a live shell severs the rope, and Jack plummets into the river below.

After dragging himself to the shore, dusk falls, he becomes the Werewolf, and spends the night roaming the forest. At one point, he finds a cave, in the mouth of which lies a skeleton with four strange tentacle-like growths on the rib cage.

Meanwhile, the crew has gone missing, and Buck and Clary search for them and Jack. They find one crew member who appears to be dying, and they see four odd protuberances on his chest. Before they can do any more, they are knocked out by unseen assailants and dragged away.

The next day, Jack makes his way back to town, but finds nobody around. He does find a trail of slime, and he follows it to the cave, where he sees Buck and Clary hung by their ankles above a pit. Then he is knocked out.

When he comes to, he finds himself hanging next to his friends, as Brad and the missing crew, in ceremonial robes, prepare to sacrifice the three of them to some ancient deity. Jack realizes the filming was Brad's ruse to lure his victims to their fate.

The moon rises, and Brad raises his blade, but Jack transforms, and the Werewolf breaks his bonds, attacking the cultists who fight back with their chest-tentacles. Amid the melee, Buck is freed, and he releases Clary. While they escape, the earth quakes, and giant tentacles emerge from the pit. Brad is grabbed by the thing as the cave collapses, burying the cultists and their old god. Outside, Buck and Clary recover from their ordeal as the Werewolf runs to the forest.

Appearing in "The Return of the Brain"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Adventures into Terror #6

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  • Larry Siodmak (Only in recap)

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Reprint of the 1st story from
Adventures into Terror #6

Continued from Adventures into Terror #4...

Nazi scientist Otto von Schmittsder had cheated death after being hung for war crimes he committed during World War II by being resurrected with a Electro Brain Magnet. As the Brain he has already had one attempt to take over the world with biological weapons fail, but managed to escape without being detected or captured[1].

Plotting anew, the Brain smuggles himself aboard a trans-atlantic flight headed for the United States. He is discovered by a woman passenger, but she is so frightened she faints and her hair turns white from the fright. The Brain then hides himself in a hat box and remains undetected until the plane lands. When a customs official checks the hat box, the Brain also frightens him and the passenger and manages to escape. Spotting renown scientist Gilda Spears on site, the Brain smuggles aboard her truck, deciding that she would be an ideal candidate for his continued attempts for world domination. Arriving at Gilda's lab, the Brain finds an ideal hiding spot in her lab on a shelf among a number of wax heads.

Deciding to be more subtle this time the Brain then spends the next few weeks to slowly influence her with his telepathic powers until Gilda is completely under his control. He then commands her to destroy the experiments she is working on for the United States government and then has her write letters to the Soviet Union offering to sell her secrets to them for a higher price. Seeing Gilda's colleague, Professor Emmett as an obstacle in his plans he then order Gilda to go to the government with "evidence" that Emmett is a traitor to his country. However, when Gilda returns to her lab she is confronted by FBI agent Steve Manners. Manners, a long time friend, informs her that he intercepted her mail and confesses that he loves her and asks her to explain the letters, hoping they are forgeries.

Seeing Manner's love for Gilda as a weakness he orders her to deny his allegations and convince him to undergo an experiment. Manners agrees and the Brain, caught in the moment, verbally orders Gilda to drain Steve's blood. Hearing the Brain's voice, Steve spots the creature and tries to capture the Brain. The Brain meanwhile orders Gilda to kill Steve with a scalpel. Steve manages to subdue Gail but in the struggle trying to capture the brain chemicals are spilled and a torch is knocked over causing as fast fire. Steve grabs Gilda and leaves the blazing inferno, hearing the Brain screaming for help.

Steve leaves the Brain to burn alive, unaware that this is only a ruse and that the Brain has managed to smash out of another window. Gail, snapping out of her trance is led away, being assured by Steve that she can build a new lab to start over, while the Brain, having failed again begins to plot the domination of the world anew.

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