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Appearing in "The Thing That Devoured a Planet"

Reprint of the 5th story from
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:

Races and Species:

Locations:

  • Earth
    • Eastern State University

Synopsis for "The Thing That Devoured a Planet"

Reprint of the 5th story from
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"

Reprint of the 2nd story from
Journey Into Mystery #17

Featured Characters:

  • Human Civilization

Antagonists:

  • Machines

Other Characters:

  • Batok

Races and Species:

Locations:

Synopsis for "Machine Age"

Reprint of the 2nd story from
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"

Reprint of the 2nd story from
Adventures into Weird Worlds #12
(originally printed as The Monster!)

Featured Characters:

  • Ingoor

Supporting Characters:

  • Boy (Unnamed)
  • Police Officer (Unnamed)
  • Woman (Unnamed)

Other Characters:

Races and Species:

Locations:

Items:

  • Captain America Atomic Disintegrator Gun

Synopsis for "It Came from Beneath the Earth"

Reprint of the 2nd story from
Adventures into Weird Worlds #12
(originally printed as The Monster!)

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"

Reprint of the 1st story from
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"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Mystic #6

Floating eyes from Venus invade Earth.

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