—Magneto (Hunk Larken)Everyone poked fun at me, treated me like I was dirt! But now-- now I got a way t'get even! I'll show that carnival owner, an' all the people of that city that it ain't nice t'laugh at me!
Appearing in "The Wonder of the Ages!!! Magneto!"
Featured Characters:
- Magneto (Hunk Larken) (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Unnamed Con-Man
Antagonists:
- Unnamed Carnival Bully
Other Characters:
- Unnamed Tow Truck Driver
- Unnamed Coach
- Unnamed Carnival Owner
- Billy
- United States Air Force
- Unnamed General
- Unnamed Professor
- Unnamed Bank Guard
- CCPD
- Four unnamed police officers
Races and Species:
- Humans
- Chimpanzees (Mentioned)
- Demons (Referenced)
Locations:
- Earth-616
- Earth
- North America
- United States of America
- Midwest
- Unidentified Town (Mentioned)
- Center City
- First Savings Bank
- Washington, D.C.
- Midwest
- United States of America
- Earth Orbit
- North America
- Earth
Vehicles:
- Hunk Larken's Spacecraft
Synopsis for "The Wonder of the Ages!!! Magneto!"
A man, mocked and ridiculed for his large size and low intelligence, volunteers to be the first man in space and passes through a radioactive anti-matter cloud which grants him magnetic powers. He uses these powers to take revenge on those who tormented him, but the powers soon wear off. Because a selfish promoter who tried to exploit the giant for profit (but failed because his low intelligence made him unable to partake in competitive sports) knows why the giant man is lashing out at those who made taunts, he tells his story to the authorities. They plant a story to go out over the radio that tells of a new rocket to the stars. Magneto sneaks aboard, and after the ship blasts off, the radio comes to life and tells him that they know he's aboard and they built the craft to take him to habitable planet where he can achieve the peace that he's been denied on Earth.
Appearing in "The Inventor"
Featured Characters:
- Ned Carter (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Mr. Jonas (First appearance)
Races and Species:
Locations:
Synopsis for "The Inventor"
Appearing in "Twelve Silent Men!"
Featured Characters:
- Victor Fabius
Supporting Characters:
- Sylvester Weems
Antagonists:
- Jurors of 2061
Other Characters:
- Jordan
Races and Species:
Locations:
Items:
- Sylvester Weems' Time Machine
Synopsis for "Twelve Silent Men!"
A lawyer steals a time machine to sell the secrets of the future to the past, but when he arrives they grab him for stealing the time machine. During the trial he lies through his teeth to try and sway them just like he had done in the past. Unbeknownst to him the way people communicated in the future is through mental telepathy and during the entire trial they heard him confess to the criminal act.
Appearing in "They Met on Mars!"
Featured Characters:
- Unnamed American Astronaut
Antagonists:
- Unnamed Russian Cosmonaut
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-616
- Mars
- Russia (Mentioned)
- United States of America (Mentioned)
Vehicles:
- Russian Spacecraft (Destroyed)
- American Spacecraft
Synopsis for "They Met on Mars!"
Two beings encounter each other on Mars. They each assume the other to be hostile and the green one retreats to his spaceship and takes off. The blue one thinks he's won the faceoff, but the green uses his ship's weapons to destroy the blue one's spaceship and then returns home. The way Ditko draws them, they appear as though they could be aliens, but the end of the story reveals them to be an American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut wearing space suits that prevented them from even recognizing each other as fellow human beings.
Notes
Publisher Notes[]
- "The Wonder of the Ages!!! Magneto!" is reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl #24 with its name changed to "The Wonder of the Ages!!! Magnetor!"
- "They Met On Mars!" is reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl #24.
Trivia
- In the above-mentioned reprint of "They Met on Mars!", the story was edited so that the American astronaut and Russian cosmonaut were instead agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra respectively.