Fools! This entire world is just an illusion! And I, Gorak, have created it all for my own amusement! 
- —Gorak
Appearing in "Chapter One - I Created the Colossus! / Chapter Two - The Colossus Lives! / Chapter Three - The Power of the Colossus!"
Featured Characters:
- Boris Petrovsky (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- It the Living Colossus ⏵ (First appearance)
- Kigor
Antagonists:
- Ivan Petrovsky (First appearance)
Other Characters:
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earthspace
- Heaven (Mentioned)
Vehicles:
- Kigor Spaceships
Synopsis for "Chapter One - I Created the Colossus! / Chapter Two - The Colossus Lives! / Chapter Three - The Power of the Colossus!"
Boris Petrovsky sculpts a Colossus as a monument for the Soviet Union. He has completed the statue and is awaiting the apparatchik who will give it the Party's approval. One night a UFO crashes near his home, and Petrovsky finds a crustaceanoid from the world of Kigor. To survive on Earth, it transfers its consciousness into the hundred-foot statue. Somehow it can make the statue move, and the Kigor (possibly still in pain) goes on a rampage in Moscow. The Red Army fails to stop it. Only when another Kigor ship arrives and rescues the first one does the statue stop.
Appearing in "The Comic"
Journey Into Unknown Worlds #45
Featured Characters:
Other Characters:
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth
- United States of America
- New York
- Oregon (Referenced)
- Washington (Referenced)
- Utah (Referenced)
- United States of America
Synopsis for "The Comic"
Journey Into Unknown Worlds #45
A successful television comedian battles with his emotions to decide whether he should stay at his current job making good money but doing prepared skits that bore him, or quitting and going back on tour. He finally leaves, changes his name, and is much happier doing so.
Appearing in "I am... Gorak!"
Featured Characters:
- Gorak
Races and Species:
Locations:
Items:
- Comic Book
Synopsis for "I am... Gorak!"
A master illusionist performs to the world showing his awesome powers and then breaks the fourth wall to address the reader directly with a threat that the reader will disappear now that Gorak has stopped thinking of him/her. Gorak fades away instead, surprised, as the last panel shows the comic book has been set down now the story has reached its end.
Notes
- "Chapter One - I Created the Colossus! / Chapter Two - The Colossus Lives! / Chapter Three - The Power of the Colossus!" is reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl #17.
- "I am... Gorak!" is reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell #16.
- The character of IT appears again in Tales of Suspense #20. It does not appear again until Astonishing Tales #21, in 1974.