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Appearing in "I Unleashed Shagg Upon the World!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Journey Into Mystery #59

Featured Characters:

  • Unnamed Archaeologist

Antagonists:

Other Characters:

Races and Species:

Locations:

Items:

  • Archaeologist's Notebook

Synopsis for "I Unleashed Shagg Upon the World!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Journey Into Mystery #59

An explorer pulls a switch in some ruins uncovered by a recent sandstorm which brings the sphinx to life. It turns out that the sphinx is actually a robot warrior placed upon Earth to wait for the right moment to strike. He scoops up the hapless human and deposits him inside the mechanism, then travels to Paris and destroys the Eiffel Tower. Next, Shagg swims to New York City and lays waste to it. During the carnage, Shagg is describing the invasion plans to the captive man when he mentions his fellow warriors freeing him from his centuries long slumber. The man interrupts with the revelation that his fellow warriors did not pull the switch, he did. Shagg is enraged, because he knows he cannot defeat an entire world armed with nuclear weapons by himself, and he uses cosmo-gamma electro-magnetic waves to undo all the damage he's done and make people forget about the events of the last few hours so he can go back into stealth mode. When the explorer regains consciousness lying next to the sphinx, he has no idea what has occurred until he reads his notebook he wrote while a captive of the sphinx. He hopes the record of events produced in his notebook are merely the result of a moment of madness.

Appearing in "I Come from the Shadow World!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Tales of Suspense #7

Featured Characters:

  • Casey

Antagonists:

Other Characters:

Races and Species:

Locations:

Synopsis for "I Come from the Shadow World!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Tales of Suspense #7

A creature arrives as an advance scout from the shadow world to determine if Earth is ripe for takeover. No human weapons can stop him until an electrician has a story about a new device planted in a newspaper to attract its attention. When he infiltrates the military base where the device is being kept he is contemptuous that it is a mere harmless glass tube, but it was merely bait to get him inside a room filled with lights built into all surfaces that go on simultaneously and destroy the creature.

Appearing in "He Waits for Us in the Glacier!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Tales to Astonish #7

Featured Characters:

  • Skipper (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

Antagonists:

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

Other Characters:

  • Tyrannosaurus rex (Only in flashback)
  • Stegosaurus (Only in flashback)
  • Numerous unnamed Neanderthals (Only in flashback)
  • Roman Empire (Only in flashback)
  • Mongol Empire (Only in flashback)
  • United States Army (Only in flashback)

Races and Species:

Locations:

  • Milky Way (Main story and flashback)
  • Unnamed Galaxy (Mentioned) (Anuxa's Home Galaxy)
    • Unnamed Planet (Mentioned) (Anuxa's Home Planet)

Items:

  • Gamma Electrization Gun
  • Atomic Bomb (Only in flashback)

Vehicles:

  • Atomic Submarine

Events:

Synopsis for "He Waits for Us in the Glacier!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Tales to Astonish #7

The crew on an atomic submarine are travelling through the Arctic when they discover the alien Anuxa is hiding in the glaciers. He proclaims is an alien scout whose race waits for the dominant life form to die out and states that due to the invention of nuclear weaponry it won't likely be long before humanity wipes itself out, before disappearing back into the glaciers.

Appearing in "I Became a... Human Bomb!"

Reprint of the 5th story from
Tales to Astonish #6

Featured Characters:

  • Unnamed Criminal

Other Characters:

Races and Species:

Locations:

Items:

  • Guided Missile

Synopsis for "I Became a... Human Bomb!"

Reprint of the 5th story from
Tales to Astonish #6

A criminal tries to steal a new guided missile to set a ransom for it, but after boarding the craft he discovers it's completely automatic with no controls inside.

Appearing in "Grottu, King of the Insects!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Strange Tales #73

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Lynn Avery
  • Kasenga

Antagonists:

  • Grottu (First appearance) (Apparent death)

Other Characters:

Races and Species:

Locations:

Synopsis for "Grottu, King of the Insects!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Strange Tales #73

The radiation from atomic bomb tests mutates a common ant, increasing his size and strength a thousand fold, and grants him human-level intellect. Calling himself Grottu, he declares himself King of all insects, and sets about on a plan to conquer the world. His efforts are foiled by an adventurer, who succeeds in turning Grotto's ant followers against him, leaving him for dead.

Strange Tales Vol 1 73 001

Appearing in "I Know the Secret of the Poltergeist!"

Reprint of the 2nd story from
Tales to Astonish #1

Featured Characters:

  • Unnamed Paranormal Investigator (Main story and flashback) (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

Antagonists:

  • Poltergeists (First appearance)
    • Numerous unnamed poltergeists

Other Characters:

  • Unnamed Realtor

Races and Species:

Locations:

Synopsis for "I Know the Secret of the Poltergeist!"

Reprint of the 2nd story from
Tales to Astonish #1

A couple named Rita and Larry Winters buy a house that is supposedly haunted due to their budget constraints. They don't believe the rumors, and soon they have renovated the creepy old house into a cheerful looking place. Yet, seemingly unexplainable events begin to occur. Items begin flying off of shelves and counters, sturdy objects float through the air, and the couple begin hearing strange noises.

A paranormal investigator hears rumors of the couple's experiences, and decides to investigate so he can disprove the existence of supernatural forces as he has done on all of his previous cases. Upon his arrival, the couple accepts his offer to investigate and go to stay in a nearby hotel while he works. The investigator creates diagrams and timelines to show that all of the incidents were caused by worldly phenomena such as earth tremors.

When the couple returns, he shows his findings to them. They are still hesitant to stay in the house, but fear that no one will buy it from them even if they provide evidence that it isn't haunted. The investigator offers to buy it from them for what they paid on it, and the couple hurriedly accepts. Now in his new home, the investigator pats himself on the back for a job well done disproving poltergeists once again, before taking off what is revealed to be a human mask to reveal that he himself is a poltergeist. The ending panel shows his true face, and other poltergeist with him in the house, illustrating that the incidences really were the work of poltergeists all along.

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Appearing in "I Saw the Serpent that Saved the World!"

Reprint of the 6th story from
Journey Into Mystery #55

Featured Characters:

  • Unnamed Man (Main story and flashback)

Supporting Characters:

  • Snake (Only in flashback)
  • Unnamed Man's Mother (Only in flashback)

Antagonists:

  • Unidentified Alien Creature

Other Characters:

  • United States Army (Dream)
    • Numerous unnamed soldiers (Dream)
  • Numerous unidentified alien species

Races and Species:

Locations:

Synopsis for "I Saw the Serpent that Saved the World!"

Reprint of the 6th story from
Journey Into Mystery #55

A young man tells the story of a dream of his where a planet conquering lifeform ends up killed by a simple garter snake. Although he didn't know if it was real the man has since developed a love for serpents.

Appearing in "The Stranger in Space!"

Reprint of the 4th story from
Journey Into Mystery #53

Featured Characters:

  • Frank Mason (Past)

Supporting Characters:

  • Frank Mason (Future)

Races and Species:

Locations:

Vehicles:

  • X-671

Synopsis for "The Stranger in Space!"

Reprint of the 4th story from
Journey Into Mystery #53

A astronaut enters a time warp and ends up meeting his own self from the future.

Appearing in "I Saw Diablo! The Demon from the Fifth Dimension!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Tales of Suspense #9

Featured Characters:

Antagonists:

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

Other Characters:

  • Numerous unnamed Aztecs
  • Two unnamed cafe patrons
  • Numerous unnamed aliens (Only in flashback and vision or hallucination)
  • Mexican Army (Vision or hallucination)
    • Numerous unnamed soldiers (Vision or hallucination)
  • United States Army (Vision or hallucination)
    • Numerous unnamed soldiers (Vision or hallucination)

Races and Species:

Locations:

Synopsis for "I Saw Diablo! The Demon from the Fifth Dimension!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Tales of Suspense #9

An adventurer hears tales of a smoke demon up in the hills and meets up with an invader from the fifth dimension who is an advance scout for an invasion. He bluffs the creature with a cigarette lighter, producing a puff of smoke and blowing it out, calling it a weapon and Diablo flees back to the fifth dimension.

Tales of Suspense Vol 1 9 001

Appearing in "I Found the Giant in the Sky!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Journey Into Mystery #55

Featured Characters:

  • Professor Dunn

Supporting Characters:

  • Unnamed Giant
  • Unnamed "Princess"

Other Characters:

  • Unnamed Book Seller
  • Jack (Mentioned)
  • Tabby (Cat)

Races and Species:

Locations:

Items:

Synopsis for "I Found the Giant in the Sky!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Journey Into Mystery #55

A homely professor finds some magic beans within the pages of an old edition of "Jack and the Beanstalk" and when he drops them, they sprout a vast growing vine. He gets entangled with it and shoots up into the sky where he sees a huge castle floating on a cloud. Inside he meets the giant, but he is not hostile. He goes out to the vine and uproots it so that no other mortals stumble upon his abode, and then he introduces the professor to a lonely beautiful young lady who also stumbled upon the magic beans years ago and she thinks the professor is handsome. Although Professor Dunn is the only man she's ever seen. She offers to be his princess and they live happily ever after.

Journey Into Mystery Vol 1 55 001

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 Saw the Invasion of the Stone Men"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Tales to Astonish #6

Featured Characters:

  • Professor George Ailen

Antagonists:

  • Stone Men (First appearance)
    • Numerous unnamed stone men

Other Characters:

Races and Species:

Locations:

Synopsis for "I Saw the Invasion of the Stone Men"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Tales to Astonish #6

Two stone men rise from beneath the streets of New York city and cause a panic. A geologist who has warned people for years that life exists deep underground is taken for a traitor who is in league with the monsters by an angry mob. The scientist denies that he is in league with them, and since the creatures menace no one, he asks the army to leave them alone. Eventually the stone men retreat back below the surface, but the military are worried they will return in greater numbers. The geologist has realized that they will not return because they can see nothing on the surface and cannot breathe due to their having evolved in the high density of the Earth's crust and they were merely exploring.

Tales to Astonish Vol 1 6 001

Appearing in "A Martian Walks Among Us!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Strange Tales #78

Featured Characters:

Antagonists:

Other Characters:

  • CCPD
  • WLMI-TV
    • Unnamed Newscaster

Races and Species:

Locations:

Items:

  • Infra-Red Machine

Vehicles:

  • Martian Flying Saucer

Synopsis for "A Martian Walks Among Us!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Strange Tales #78

A scientist sees a flying saucer land and is overpowered by the larger Martian. Since the creature thinks he's dead, he assumes his appearance and lets slip that only infrared rays can detect his disguise as he gathers information for a planned invasion of Earth. After he departs, our hero, who was only stunned, resolves to alert the authorities but they don't believe him. He builds a device that will alert him to the presence of the creature in his disguise and tracks him to an office building. The device goes off in the presence of the night watchman and the alien shifts into the more powerful Martian form, forcing our hero to flee. He rolls to the side as the Martian charges forward and plunges to his doom down the elevator shaft. Our hero then removes his disguise to stand revealed as a Venusian and affirms their pledge to defend the beloved sister planet Earth from the dangers of outer space.

Strange Tales Vol 1 78 001

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