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Appearing in "The Return of the Totem!"

Reprint of the 2nd story from
Strange Tales #75

Featured Characters:

  • Unnamed Chieftain

Supporting Characters:

  • Unidentified Native American Tribe
    • Numerous unnamed Native Americans

Antagonists:

  • Totem (Main story and recap)

Other Characters:

  • Bull Drago (Only in recap)
  • Hunk (Only in recap)
  • Unnamed Sheriff
  • Unnamed Mayor
  • Harim (Mentioned)
  • Numerous unnamed townspeople

Races and Species:

Realities:

Locations:

  • Earth (Main story and recap)
    • United States of America (Main story and recap)
      • Native American Reservation (Main story and recap)
        • Unnamed Village (Main story and recap)
      • Northwestern State Prison (Only in recap)
      • Unnamed Town

Items:

  • Ancient Potion

Synopsis for "The Return of the Totem!"

Reprint of the 2nd story from
Strange Tales #75

Unexpectedly, the Totem breaks off its attack on the two convicts and returns to menace the Native American village. The tribe hides in a cave while their chieftain concocts a potion to de-animate it. He catches up with the Totem as it is herding a bunch of hikers to their doom over a cliff, and tosses the potion into one of its mouths, causing it to both topple over and fall off the cliff into the river. Although the chieftain suffers a mortal injury in the process, he is satisfied that he has removed the threat that he had created as the Totem drifts out to sea.

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Appearing in "Taboo! The Thing from the Murky Swamp!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Strange Tales #75

Featured Characters:

  • Lewis Conrad

Supporting Characters:

  • Unnamed Guide

Antagonists:

  • Taboo (First appearance) (Main story and flashback) (Apparent death)

Other Characters:

Races and Species:

Realities:

Locations:

Items:

  • H-Bomb

Synopsis for "Taboo! The Thing from the Murky Swamp!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Strange Tales #75

An explorer meets a mud creature in a swamp who claims that his spaceship was destroyed years ago and wishes that the man request from those in charge the sum total of human knowledge. When this is presented to Taboo, he reveals his hostile intention to take the knowledge back to his world and prepare an invasion of Earth, as he can travel through space without requiring a spaceship. The explorer is remorseful in the role he has played as Taboo's dupe, but his comrades tell him to watch the atmosphere that Taboo has faded into and see what happens. Suddenly there is a huge explosion, and they reveal to the explorer that they had secreted an H-bomb in the capsule, just in case.

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Appearing in "The Great Disappointment!"

Reprint of the 6th story from
Journey Into Unknown Worlds #17

Featured Characters:

  • Ivan Korosoff (First appearance) (Apparent death)
  • Serge Petroff (First appearance) (Apparent death)
  • Unnamed Cosmonaut (Apparent death)

Supporting Characters:

  • Soviet Army
    • Numerous unnamed military personnel

Antagonists:

  • Moon (First appearance)

Other Characters:

  • Unnamed Professor

Races and Species:

Locations:

Vehicles:

  • Korosoff Rocket

Synopsis for "The Great Disappointment!"

Reprint of the 6th story from
Journey Into Unknown Worlds #17
The moon is revealed to be a living organism which devours beings on its surface thus producing craters.

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