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Quote1 How could you believe that I betrayed you, when betrayal requires emotion and I, I am...a mere machine. Quote2
Colossus

Appearing in "I Fought the Colossus!"

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Supporting Characters:

  • Professor Reynolds

Other Characters:

  • Numerous unnamed people of Earth-60672
  • Johnny

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Synopsis for "I Fought the Colossus!"

In the year 2020 the computer that governs the world secretly builds a ten story robot underground and then sends it to the surface. The humans assume that the computer has betrayed them and desires conquest so they use a magnetic device to lure the robot to a sea cliff where it topples off and is destroyed. They confront the computer as to why it betrayed them and it denies doing so. It says that it is aware that many people distrust computers so it built its replacement in a human shape to reassure people. It is growing old and will soon become defective and had to make the robot so large that it could contain all the knowledge required to make capable decisions for governing Earth. "How could you believe that I betrayed you?, when betrayal requires emotion and I, I am...a mere machine."

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Appearing in "Weather Man"

Reprint of the 2nd story from
Marvel Tales #139

Featured Characters:

  • Chuck

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  • Controllers

Other Characters:

  • Dr. Ramsay

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Synopsis for "Weather Man"

Reprint of the 2nd story from
Marvel Tales #139

The weather reporter at a newspaper realizes that the weather is being manipulated somehow in an effort to destroy Earth's crops, and helps the government stop the attack.

Appearing in "I was Trapped on the Ghost Ship!"

Featured Characters:

  • Captain Luther Storme

Supporting Characters:

  • Jonah Morgan

Other Characters:

  • Numerous unnamed members of Captain Storme's crew
  • United States Maritime Commission
  • Davy Jones (Invoked)

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Vehicles:

  • Captain Storme's Ship
  • Flying Dutchman

Synopsis for "I was Trapped on the Ghost Ship!"

A cruel sea captain greedily pursues the flying Dutchman. He catches the ship, but is trapped there as a ghost, replacing the former ghost, who now can go free.

Appearing in "I am the Abominable Snowman!"

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Antagonists:

  • Unnamed Holy Man
  • Numerous unnamed mountain climbers

Other Characters:

  • Mr. Johnson
  • Ben
  • Unnamed Woman
  • Unnamed Lama
  • Lord (Invoked)

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  • Enchanted Ruby

Synopsis for "I am the Abominable Snowman!"

A thief steals a ruby from a Himalayan retreat, but a curse on the stone makes him intensely cold and forces him to wear heavy furs that keep him from returning to civilization.

Appearing in "I Saw the Elephants' Graveyard!"

Featured Characters:

  • Dirk

Supporting Characters:

  • Numerous unnamed members of Dirk's expedition

Antagonists:

  • Panther
  • Pygmy Headhunters

Other Characters:

  • Numerous unnamed hunters

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Synopsis for "I Saw the Elephants' Graveyard!"

An ivory hunter searches for the legendary spot where elephants go to die, but he finds that the spot is an inaccessible pit of quicksand.

Appearing in "I Entered the... Doorway to Doom!"

Featured Characters:

  • Unnamed Farmer

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Synopsis for "I Entered the... Doorway to Doom!"

A Russian returning to his farm after the war has found the soil to be no good and so he goes prospecting for gold in caves. He comes across invaders from dimension Z but they fear fire, so he holds them back with flames in order to finish constructing a door that will lock them deeper in the cavern while he finishes mining. The soviet authorities seize his gold and demand that he lead them to the source. When they are before the door, they demand it be opened over his protests, and rough him up to seize the key. Outside the cave, he hears their shouts and knows that two evil forces have encountered each other. He muses that he will demand freedom from the premier, and if refused, will open the door a final time to ensure that tyranny perishes from his homeland.

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