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Appearing in "Bwana Brown!"

Featured Characters:

  • Bwana Brown

Supporting Characters:

Antagonists:

  • Alex Steel

Other Characters:

  • explorers
  • native guide
  • pilot

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Items:


Vehicles:

  • airplane

Synopsis for "Bwana Brown!"

Bwana Brown, a member of the Explorer's Club, gives a talk at their meeting of an African tribe who will give gold and diamonds to one who can prove they are immortal. The explorers ask for the location of this tribe, figuring to impress the natives with modern gadgets and pass the test, but Bwana Brown refuses to tell them. One of the hunters follows him back to his apartment and attempts to kill him with a spear, and afterward, steals the map. He finds the tribe and agrees to their test, but they cut off his head. Bwana Brown says to his friends "Pity he didn't ascertain that I actually was immortal before he tried to kill me."

Appearing in "The Son of Rasputin"

Featured Characters:

  • Natasha

Supporting Characters:

  • Petrov Olansk

Antagonists:

  • Boris Lachova

Other Characters:

  • Hagliv (Mentioned)
  • Georgio
  • Lachova's home
  • Firemen

Locations:

Items:

  • Bells

Vehicles:

  • Guns

Synopsis for "The Son of Rasputin"

A man uses Pavlovian conditioning on his actress beloved in order to get her to automatically shoot his rival when he rings a bell. Things go well for him until a fire breaks out in his domicile, and when his wife hears the bells she shoots at the firemen, so they leave him to burn to death.

Appearing in "The Secret of Asteroid 85!"

Featured Characters:

  • Thor
  • Leu
  • Jonn

Supporting Characters:

  • The man who helped them escape

Antagonists:

  • Alien life form from Asteroid #85

Other Characters:


Locations:

  • Jail
  • Asteroid #85
  • Gonymede (Mentioned) (sic.)

Items:

  • Neuron-gun

Vehicles:

  • Strato-jet

Synopsis for "The Secret of Asteroid 85!"

same plot as the Ditko story in Tales of Suspense #28

Appearing in "A Monument to Mortimer!"

Featured Characters:

  • Mortimer Snapely / Mortimer the Great (First appearance; dies)

Supporting Characters:

  • Saturn civilization
  • Earth diplomats

Antagonists:

  • Death (First appearance; dies)

Other Characters:

  • Mr. and Mrs. Snapely
  • the nurse-in-charge
  • Miss Staunton
  • the police commissioner

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Synopsis for "A Monument to Mortimer!"

sort of a "Ransom of Red Chief"-type story where, after the rotten kid dies and is taken by Death, he goes to work on Death himself and kills him so he's remembered by immortal humans as a hero.

Appearing in "The Race that Vanished"

Featured Characters:

  • Professor Rollo Winslow

Supporting Characters:

  • Collins

Antagonists:

  • Monsters, freaks and carnivorous plants

Other Characters:


Locations:

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Vehicles:

  • Polaris

Synopsis for "The Race that Vanished"

A few years after 2439 a time capsule is unearthed that was buried in 1939 on some islands that previously had demonstrated no record of human habitation.

Appearing in "The "Genie""

Featured Characters:

  • George

Supporting Characters:

  • genie

Antagonists:


Other Characters:

  • old flower-woman
  • Shirly Krankheit
  • Mr. Kromberger
  • Frank Kelly

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Synopsis for "The "Genie""

A genie allows a man to make one wish

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