Appearing in "When Fails the Quest!"
Tales to Astonish #74
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Lady Dorma
- Vashti Cleito-Son (Unnamed)
Antagonists:
- Faceless Ones
- Numerous unnamed Faceless Ones
- Krang's Empire of Atlantis
- Warlord Krang
- Robo-Tank Driver (Robot) (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Atlantean Rebels
- Numerous unnamed resistance fighters
- Neptune (Mentioned)
- Zantor (Mentioned) (Apparent death)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth
- Atlantic Ocean
- Lair of the Faceless Ones
- Atlantis
- Atlantean Imperial Palace
- Forbidden Deeps (Mentioned)
- Atlantic Ocean
Items:
- Plasti-Cage
- Atlantean Undersea Scanner
- Neptune's Trident (Mentioned)
Vehicles:
- Robo-Tank (First appearance)
Synopsis for "When Fails the Quest!"
Tales to Astonish #74
Continued from last issue...
Namor has given up his quest for Neptune's Trident in order to rescue Lady Dorma from the Faceless Ones. He arrives in the Faceless One's cavern just as they are about to break through the plati-cage that she is trapped in. As the Sub-Mariner fights through the horde of seemingly mindless creatures there is a revolt going on in Atlantis against the tyrannical Warlord Krang. As the rebellion enters his control room he manages to escape capture by closing an impenetrable wall in the way of himself and his attackers.
In punishment for the rebellion, Krang sends out his robot-tank to bring down mutineers of his rule. As this is happening Vashti the Elder escapes on a specially bred sea-horse to seek out the Sub-Mariner while Krang calls back his robo-tank. As Namor continues to battle the Faceless Ones, Vashti approaches their caverns and is accidentally dropped in when his sea-horse frightens, throwing him off. Namor manages fight off the Faceless Ones as they burst the pasti-cage, however Namor finds that Dorma has been injured by the resulting combustion of the plasti-cage. Finding her inches to death, Namor now has finds that he is surrounded by the Faceless Ones.
This story is continued next issue...
Appearing in "Return to the Nightmare World!"
Strange Tales #116
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Wong (Unnamed)
Antagonists:
- Nightmare
- Dreamstalker
- Spinybeast (First appearance; dies)
Other Characters:
- Numerous unnamed denizens of Nightmare World
- Ancient One (Yao) (Appears on screen)
- Daily Globe (Named only)
- NYPD
- Unnamed Police Officer
- Dr. Warren (First appearance)
- Vishanti (Mentioned)
- Dormammu (Invoked)
- Three unnamed dreamers
Races and Species:
Locations:
Items:
- Lesser Cloak of Levitation
- Amulet of Agamotto
- Mystic Prod
- Book of the Vishanti (First appearance)
- Spells
- Hosts of Hoggoth (First appearance)
- Mist of Hoggoth (First appearance)
Synopsis for "Return to the Nightmare World!"
Strange Tales #116
In the Dream Dimension, Nightmare has prepared a potion that will bring humans into his dimension and trap them while they sleep. Doctor Strange is contacted by the police to solve a case where people can not be awakened after falling asleep. Doctor Strange discovers that the sleeping people are under a spell. Using a chant found in the Book of Vishanti, Doctor Strange is able to enter the Dream Dimension. Inside, Doctor Strange evades the first traps of Nightmare and frees the imprisoned men, but is then himself trapped. Using his amulet, Strange defeats Nightmare's minion, the Spinybeast, and escapes to the mortal world.
Appearing in "Kang, The Conqueror!"
Avengers #8
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Kang the Conqueror (First appearance as Kang the Conqueror) (Main story and flashback)
- 40th Century Kang's Barbarian Army (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
Other Characters:
- Numerous unnamed New Yorkers
- NYPD
- U.S. Army (Main story and flashback)
- Unnamed General
- Numerous unnamed soldiers (Main story and flashback)
- Defense Department
- Paul R. Ignatius (First appearance) (Topical Reference)
- Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom) (Mentioned)
- Rama-Tut (Only in flashback)
- Ant-Man's Ants
- President of the United States (Mentioned)
- United Nations
- Hulk (Bruce Banner) (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Asgardians
- Ants
Locations:
- Prime Marvel Universe (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- Moon, Earth Orbit (Mentioned)
- Asgard (Invoked)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Earth-6311 (Only in flashback)
- Subspace
Items:
- Giant-Man's Suit
- Iron Man Armor MK II
- Wasp's Suit and Bio-Synthetic Wings
- Mjolnir
- Captain America's Uniform and Shield
- Kang Armor (First appearance)
- Kang's Time Chair (First appearance)
- Kang's Anti-Grav ray
- Kang's Anti-matter screen
- Kang's Attractor ray
- Kang's Energizer tank
- Stark/Pym's Power ray
- Kang's Force field
- Neutrino missile
Vehicles:
- Kang's Timeship (Main story and flashback)
- Avengers' Plane
Synopsis for "Kang, The Conqueror!"
Avengers #8
Kang the Conqueror comes to rule Earth. The Avengers attack and are beaten and captured, apart from the Wasp. She and Rick Jones form a plan and get onto Kang's ship and free the Avengers. The Avengers battle Kang again and manage to defeat him by destroying his suit which controls all his weapons. Kang is forced to flee back into his time.