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Of course, I have always felt very close to time! Yes, that can be the only explanation! I have an affinity with time! I always know the exact moment of time instinctively!

Gustave Tarnal

Appearing in "The Secret Laboratory of Dr. Domino"

Featured Characters:

  • Dr. Domino (First appearance)

Antagonists:

  • Unnamed Seeress (First appearance)

Other Characters:

  • Dr. Domino's Employees
    • Four unnamed employees
  • Three unnamed reporters
  • Numerous unnamed old women

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Synopsis for "The Secret Laboratory of Dr. Domino"

A conman hires some elderly women and young girls to enter a cabinet so that the old woman exit the back and the young girls come out the front to give the illusion that their youth has been restored. The old women in the audience throw money at the man who promises them their youth back. A sorceress appears who wants the treatment and he admits that he is a fraud. The sorceress ages him.

Appearing in "What is Monium?"

Featured Characters:

  • Burt Kane (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Zorani

Other Characters:

  • Hodgeson and Wicke (First appearance)
    • Unnamed Jeweler
  • Unidentified Police Department
    • Four unnamed police officers

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  • Monium (First appearance)
    • Monium Hoops (First appearance)

Synopsis for "What is Monium?"

A man discovers a metal that when cut in two remains connected even though it appears that there is empty space between the parts. He fashions two hoops and starts a magic act where anything he tosses through the one hoop pops out the other no matter how far away from each other they are. His assistant threatens him into criminal acts. The assistant robs jewels and throws them into the hoop so that the man at the other end must collect the loot. When the thief gives the man a hammer and wood to construct a crate to hold all of the loot, he places the hoop inside the crate and breaks down the door he had been imprisoned behind. He confronts the thief and the thief attempts to escape through his hoop but finds himself inside the sealed crate on the way to the penitentiary.

Appearing in "So This is Mars!"

Featured Characters:

  • Craig (Actor) (First appearance)
  • Mr. Worth (Producer) (First appearance)

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Synopsis for "So This is Mars!"

A Martian filmmaker teleports a human filmmaker's Martian set to Mars and is disappointed to find human culture identical to Martian culture.

Appearing in "The Silent City!"

Featured Characters:

  • Gustave Tarnal (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)

Other Characters:

  • Rudwigsburg
    • Mayor Freiler (First appearance)
    • Frau Freiler (First appearance)
    • Numerous unnamed citizens
    • Rudwigsburg Police
      • Two unnamed policemen

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  • Earth (Main story and flashback)
    • Europe (Main story and flashback)
      • Rudwigsburg (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
        • Rudwigsburg Tower Clock (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)

Synopsis for "The Silent City!"

A man finds that he can rob helpless frozen people if he stops all of the clocks in town but he forgets about a sundial.

Appearing in "What on Earth?"

Featured Characters:

  • Albert Feldgurt (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Congress of Scientists (First appearance)
    • Numerous unnamed members

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Synopsis for "What on Earth?"

When people embrace love they find themselves automatically teleporting to other planets.

Appearing in "The Busybody"

Reprint of the 3rd story from
Strange Tales #26

Featured Characters:

  • Mrs. Miller (First appearance; dies)

Supporting Characters:

  • Jean Matsen (First appearance)
  • Fred Johnson (First appearance)

Other Characters:

  • Harold Trimble (First appearance)
  • Carolyn Harris (First appearance)
  • Devil (Mentioned)
  • USPS
    • Unnamed Mailman

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Synopsis for "The Busybody"

Reprint of the 3rd story from
Strange Tales #26
A cruel and greedy boarding house keeper steals and destroys mail that doesn't belong to her in order to keep a tenant under her thumb. This is her undoing when she swipes and eats a chocolate that was poisoned.

Appearing in "The Last Warning!"

Featured Characters:

  • Don Reide (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)

Supporting Characters:

  • Dencol Mining Company (First appearance)
    • Don Reide (Past) (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)

Other Characters:

  • Alma Reide (First appearance)

Races and Species:

  • Humans (Main story and flashback)
  • Snakes (Only in flashback)

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Synopsis for "The Last Warning!"

A man saves his own life by sending a radio message through time that helps a younger version of himself escape a cave-in.

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