Appearing in "The Thing That Devoured a Planet"
Adventures into Weird Worlds #2
(originally printed as When a World Goes Mad!)
Featured Characters:
- Professor (Unnamed)
Supporting Characters:
- Beast (Unnamed) (Vision or hallucination)
Antagonists:
- Creature (Unnamed)
Other Characters:
- Albert Einstein (Referenced)
- Bob Smith
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth
- Eastern State University
Synopsis for "The Thing That Devoured a Planet"
Adventures into Weird Worlds #2
(originally printed as When a World Goes Mad!)
A school professor lectures his students on sizes being relevant to the perceiver. His students don't understand and so he tells them a story featuring a giant being roaming through space that could eat the planets of the solar system, that could also be eaten by an even larger being. Upon leaving the class room the students mock the possibility of a giant creature from space only to see a giant hand coming down to them from above.
Appearing in "Machine Age"
Journey Into Mystery #17
Featured Characters:
- Human Civilization
Antagonists:
- Machines
Other Characters:
- Batok
Races and Species:
Locations:
Synopsis for "Machine Age"
Journey Into Mystery #17
Following an atomic war, the human survivors live underground, building machines to do their work for them. Years later, they return to the surface, leaving the machines behind, but the machines begin to think for themselves, and rise up to conquer the surface world.
Appearing in "It Came from Beneath the Earth"
Featured Characters:
- Ingoor
Supporting Characters:
- Boy (Unnamed)
- Police Officer (Unnamed)
- Woman (Unnamed)
Other Characters:
- Captain America (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Unidentified Subterranean Species
- Humans
Locations:
- Earth
- Subterranea (Mentioned)
- Hoboken (Mentioned)
Items:
- Captain America Atomic Disintegrator Gun
Synopsis for "It Came from Beneath the Earth"
A creature from an underground civilization is sent as a scout to determine the weaknesses of the surface world, but none of the surface dwellers are afraid of his monstrous form, as he expected.
Appearing in "The Eye of Doom"
Mystic #6
Featured Characters:
- Hoyt Gilpin (Main story and as }} {{Death in flashback)
- Unnamed Weather Station Attendant (Death)
Supporting Characters:
- Lon Ullrich (Main story and as }} {{Death in flashback)
Antagonists:
- Venusian Floating Eyes (Main story and flashback)
Other Characters:
- Venusian Rat (Only in flashback) (Death)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Moon (Only in flashback)
- Weather Station Building
- Venus (Main story and flashback)
Vehicles:
- Gilpin-Ullrich Spaceship
Synopsis for "The Eye of Doom"
Mystic #6
Floating eyes from Venus invade Earth.
Notes
- Story 1 "The Thing That Devoured a Planet" was originally titled "When a World Goes Mad" in Adventures into Weird Worlds #2
- Story 3 "It Came from Beneath the Earth" was originally titled "The Monster!" in Adventures into Weird Worlds #12