Appearing in "I Come from the Shadow World!"
Featured Characters:
- Casey
Antagonists:
- Shadow Man (First appearance; dies)
Other Characters:
- United States Army
- Joe
- Numerous unnamed soldiers
- Voice (Named only)
Races and Species:
- Unidentified Species
- Humans
Locations:
- Earthspace
- Shadow Realm (Referenced)
Synopsis for "I Come from the Shadow World!"
A creature arrives as an advance scout from the shadow world to determine if Earth is ripe for takeover. No human weapons can stop him until an electrician has a story about a new device planted in a newspaper to attract its attention. When he infiltrates the military base where the device is being kept he is contemptuous that it is a mere harmless glass tube, but it was merely bait to get him inside a room filled with lights built into all surfaces that go on simultaneously and destroy the creature.
Appearing in "Odd Skills"
Journey Into Mystery #34
Featured Characters:
- Jim Branner (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Bill Toney (First appearance)
Other Characters:
Races and Species:
Locations:
Synopsis for "Odd Skills"
Journey Into Mystery #34
The manager of an auto parts shop develops a sudden tolerance for "human variation" in parts, possibly linked to otherworldly strangers in the shop at night.
Appearing in "I Know the Power of... the Genie!"
Featured Characters:
- Nancy
Supporting Characters:
- Genie
- Tommy
- Tommy and Nancy's Father
Other Characters:
- Tommy and Nancy's Mother (Mentioned)
- God/Allah (Invoked)
- Abraham Lincoln (Statue)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earthspace
- Heaven (Invoked)
Synopsis for "I Know the Power of... the Genie!"
A little girl is punished for being naughty and in her anger summons a genie. She starts altering the world to her whim, eventually making all humans disappear. Getting bored on her own she gets the genie to return everything as it was except he wipes everyone's memory of events. However her brother accidentally left a recording device on before he disappeared so knows the truth.
Appearing in "My Name Is... Robot X!"
Featured Characters:
- Robot X
Antagonists:
- Joseph Kane
Other Characters:
- Unidentified Police Department
- Numerous unnamed police officers
Races and Species:
Locations:
Synopsis for "My Name Is... Robot X!"
A thief has a robot who disagrees with the thief's lifestyle but goes along with him because he has to. When the thief breaks into a bank by having the robot bend the bars to vault. He is trapped and caught however when the robot rusts solid due to neglect and can't get him out of the vault.
Appearing in "I Was Trapped Inside of the Martian Maze"
Featured Characters:
- Willy
Supporting Characters:
- Alice
- General Rufus B. Harrington
- Professor Arnold Wolsey
Antagonists:
- Martians
- Martian Maze-Masters
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-Unknown (1975)
Synopsis for "I Was Trapped Inside of the Martian Maze"
In 1975 Martians will only do business with those aliens intelligent enough to figure out their maze and so some eggheads from Earth attempt to enter the maze and exit through the far door. They find that they cannot, and postulate complex theories as to why they failed, like the far door resides in another dimension. The ship steward offers to give it a go, and the eggheads reluctantly agree, thinking he will certainly fail when their superior minds could not figure it out. The steward realizes that it is a treadmill that moves backwards at exactly the same speed the occupant attempts to move forward that prevents one from reaching the opposite door, and thus the Martians agree to trade and the steward becomes the ambassador to Mars.
Appearing in "I Fought the Molten Man-Thing!"
Featured Characters:
- Frank Harper (Main story and flashback)
Antagonists:
- Molten Man-Thing (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Numerous unnamed natives of Napuka
- Lord (Invoked)
Races and Species:
- Deviant Mutates
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Eternals (Main story and flashback)
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- French Polynesia
- Napuka
- North America (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- French Polynesia
Synopsis for "I Fought the Molten Man-Thing!"
When a volcano erupts on a small island, it spews forth a monster that threatens the villagers. One man gets it to follow him to an aircraft testing area where he turns high-powered blowers onto the creature, cooling down its temperature. It retreats back into the volcano because it needs high temperature to survive.
Notes
- "I Come from the Shadow World!" is reprinted in Chamber of Chills #14.
- "I Know the Power of... the Genie!" is reprinted in Crypt of Shadows #15.
- "I Was Trapped Inside of the Martian Maze" is reprinted in Tomb of Darkness #15.
- "I Fought the Molten Man-Thing!" is reprinted in Journey Into Mystery (Vol. 2) #15 & Monster Menace #1.
- "Frank Harper" was revealed to secretly be the Eternal Makkari in Marvel Universe #4.