—Simon DruddI've just drunk the serum! I can feel it starting to work already, Bentley! It's working-- I'm beginning to get young!! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Appearing in "I Was Trapped by Titano The Monster That Time Forgot!"
Featured Characters:
- Commander Hartnell (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Hartnell's Submarine Crew
- Johnson
- Numerous unnamed members
Antagonists:
- Titano (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Makau
- United States Navy
- Bob
- Dirk
- Holmes
- Numerous unnamed members
- United States Air Force (Only in flashback)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Pacific Ocean
- North America
- United States of America
- Honolulu, Hawaii (Mentioned)
- Alaska (Mentioned)
- United States of America
- Atlantic Ocean (Only in flashback)
- Asia (Main story and flashback)
- Japan (Main story and flashback)
- Arctic Ocean
Vehicles:
- Commander Hartnell's Atomic Submarine
- Target Ship (Destroyed)
- United States Navy Battleship
- Bathysphere
Synopsis for "I Was Trapped by Titano The Monster That Time Forgot!"
A gigantic, mutant crab is sighted terrorizing various islands in the South Pacific. When the American military learn of this, they assign Commander Hartnell to put a stop to the crustacean threat that has become known as Titano. Hartnell's crew has several encounters with Titano and they eventually lure him to the Arctic. Hartnell maneuvers his ship so deftly that he manages to trap Titano between two giant glaciers.
Appearing in "The Flying Saucer That Was"
Featured Characters:
- George Ridley
Other Characters:
- Monroe Marks
- Dr. Willard Seldin
- Harry Landau
- Frank Ridley (Mentioned)
- Tommy Ridley (Mentioned)
- Helen Landau (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Synopsis for "The Flying Saucer That Was"
Appearing in "Only I Know When the World Will End!!!"
Featured Characters:
- Kartu
Supporting Characters:
- Doctors
- Johnson
- Numerous unnamed others
- Scientists
- Hastings
- Brown
Other Characters:
- NYPD
- Russian Armed Forces
- HKPF
- Numerous unnamed New Yorkers
- Lord (Invoked)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Milky Way
- Unnamed Galaxy
- Aqua Centurius (Only in flashback)
- Sertius Major (Only in flashback)
- Unnamed Planet A (Destroyed)
- Unnamed Planet B (Destroyed)
Items:
- Telepathic Matter Transmitter
Synopsis for "Only I Know When the World Will End!!!"
The entire world is on a man hunt for a man named Kartu who has gone into hiding in a remote cave in Virginia. He explains he thought he was an alien who arrived here by a Thought transmitter and that another planet is going to crash into the earth and he goes to warn the authorities. They assume him crazy but before he can be properly confined he escapes, however a planet does crash into a different planet and they believe his story about being an alien. However by this time Kartu is beginning to believe them that he's not and has gone into deep hiding never to be found.
Appearing in "Something Lurks Inside!"
Featured Characters:
- Ted Carson (Main story and flashback) (First appearance; dies)
Supporting Characters:
- NASA
Antagonists:
- Numerous unnamed alien spider creatures (Only in flashback)
Other Characters:
- United States Government
- Lord (Referenced)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-60751
- Milky Way
- Solar System
- Unnamed Galaxy (Only in flashback)
- "Planet X" (Only in flashback)
- Milky Way
- Earth-10530 (Vision or hallucination)
Vehicles:
- Rocketship (Main story and flashback) (Destroyed)
Synopsis for "Something Lurks Inside!"
A space explorer lands on a planet he designates Planet X but finds it infested with vicious spider-creatures. He hurries back to his ship, but even sealed inside the smaller creatures have managed to use radio waves as a means of travel to make their way inside. The pilot flushes them to the surface of the craft, but not before one bites him, giving him an incurable fatal disease. He returns to Earth to warn them, but he cannot land because the creatures on the hull still live despite his efforts to kill them, and he cannot radio because the aliens could use the signal to arrive on Earth. He goes into orbit around Earth, refusing to respond to hailing frequencies, and this spooks the authorities so they launch a missile at him. Before the missile strikes, he jettisons his log in an escape pod. Once the people of Earth read his log, they realize he was a hero.
Appearing in "What Was the Strange Power of Simon Drudd!!"
Featured Characters:
- Bentley (Drudd's Assistant) (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- Unidentified Police Department
- O'Keefe
- Numerous unnamed officers
Antagonists:
- Simon Drudd (Only in flashback)
Other Characters:
- Charlie (Only in flashback)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
Items:
- De-Aging Serum (Only in flashback)
Synopsis for "What Was the Strange Power of Simon Drudd!!"
Two scientists work on developing a youth serum, when they succeed, the older scientist forces the younger one into the freezer at gunpoint as he has no intention of sharing the boon with mankind. Instead, he wants to become immortal, accumulate more knowledge than anyone else and rule the world. Before the incarcerated scientist freezes to death, he manages to set off an alarm which brings the police. Since there is no sign of the old man, the police do not believe his story about a youth serum, but he knows that the formula must have worked too well taking the old man back to middle age, then young man, then child, then infant, then...?
Notes
- "I Was Trapped by Titano The Monster That Time Forgot!" is reprinted in Tower of Shadows #7.
- "Only I Know When the World Will End!!!" is reprinted in Fear #1.
- "Something Lurks Inside!" is reprinted in Fear #1.
- "What Was the Strange Power of Simon Drudd!!" is reprinted in Fear #1.
