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Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
"When Aliens Meet"
Reprinted In: Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
"I Fell to the Center of the Earth"
Reprinted In: Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
"I Was a Man in Hiding"
Reprinted In: Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
"I Spent Eternity in a Deep Freeze"
Reprinted In: Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
"My Job: Capture a Martian"
Reprinted In: Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
"I Am the Giant From Outer Space"
Reprinted In: Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
"I Journeyed Back to the 20th Century"
Reprinted In: Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
"I Discovered the Man From Mars"
Reprinted In: Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
"I Found the Perfect Hiding Place in Space"
Reprinted In: Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
"I Escaped to the Stars"
Reprinted In: Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
Title: "I Was a Prisoner of the Martians"
Story:
Art:
Villains: Martians
Others: Darius Wolfe [annoying film director]
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: Earth, Mars, distant future
Reprinted In: Creatures on the Loose#21; Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
Synopsis: Martians see Wolfe commanding actors on his set and take him hostage because he's a leader; everyone thinks it's part of Wolfe's script.
"I Made Time Stand Still"
Reprinted In: Monsters on the Prowl#20; Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
"My Forbidden Paintings"
Reprinted In: Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
"The Man Who Floats in Space"
Reprinted In: Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
"I Was Trapped by the Things on Easter Island"
Reprinted In: Where Monsters Dwell#24; Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
"Menace From Outer Space"
Reprinted In: Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
"I Can See Tomorrow"
Reprinted In: Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
"I Found the Nightmare Note"
Reprinted In: Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
"I Landed on the Forbidden Planet"
Reprinted In: Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
Title: "I Laughed at the Great God, Pan!"
Story:
Art: Jack Kirby, Christopher Rule
Others: Norman [critic], Diane [girlfriend], Pan [Greek god, disguised as museum guard], Dionysus, Titans, Olympians [flashback]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1950's America
Reprinted In: Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
Synopsis: Norman makes light of Pan when he sees his painting, but is then cursed to loose some of his hair. Could the museum guard with hooves be responsible?
"I Was the Man Under Glass"
Reprinted In: Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
"I Was a Prisoner of the Living Statues"
Reprinted In: Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
Title: "I Spent Midnight With The Monster On Bald Mountain!"
Story:
Art: Steve Ditko
Heroes: "Good" [living statue, destroyed]
Villains: "Evil" [living statue]
Others: Anton Gorge [sculptor]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: Mountain castle in Europe
Reprinted In: Monster Menace#1; Where Creatures Roam#2; Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
Synopsis: Lightning brings statues of good and evil to life; "Evil" attacks sculptor, but "Good" defends him, and both are seemingly destroyed in the struggle.
Notes: The Evil Statue returns in #8
Title: "We Met In The Swamp"
Story:
Art: Jack Kirby
Heroes: Lem Whipple [old hermit]
Others: unnamed reporter, aliens
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: 1960's Black Tree Swamp
Reprinted In: Where Monsters Dwell#5; Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
Synopsis: Whipple relates to a reporter how decades ago, he met aliens and helped them remove their saucer from a bog, and in return, they gave him a chest of their most precious substance, and promised to return with an invasion force. When the reporter opens the chest, it turns out to contain nothing but air-- the most precious thing to a space traveller.
Title: "I Lived A Ghost Story"
Story:
Art: Paul Reinman
Heroes: Mr. Howard
Villains: unnamed realtor [ghost]
Others: Ghosts
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: Greenwood Manor
Reprinted In: Where Monsters Dwell#5; Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
Synopsis: Man buys old manor, finds it's haunted, and leaves. Turns out the realtor is a ghost, and wants to keep the place vacant for him and his pals.
"He Waits For Us in the Glacier"
Reprinted In: Where Creatures Roam#2; Strange Tales Annual#1; Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
Title: "I Saw the Other World!"
Story:
Art: Dick Ayers
Heroes: unnamed photographer
Others: people from another dimension
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1960's America
Reprinted In: Fantasy Masterpieces#1; Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
Synopsis: A man snaps photos, and when he develops them, he finds images of another world. He becomes convinced that another dimension exists parallel to earth's, and tries to prove it to another man, but suddenly, a bolt of lightning strikes a tree, and the man and camera vanish. The photographer goes home, not certain of what to believe, while the man shows the photos to the people of his dimension, who refuse to believe in earth.
Title: "I Live Again!"
Story:
Art: Steve Ditko
Villains: "Evil" [from #7]
Others: Military
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: Europe, America
Reprinted In: Where Creatures Roam#3; Monster Menace#3; Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
Synopsis: The Evil statue returns, and goes on a rampage leading to America, virtually unstoppable; climbing within an object to plan his next move, he finds himself aboard a rocket, being shot out into space-- forever.
"I Dared Defy the Floating Head"
Reprinted In: Where Creatures Roam#2; Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
"I Am the Genie"
Reprinted In: Fear#1; Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
"Mummex - King of the Mummies"
Reprinted In: Fear#1; Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
Title: "I Saw Droom the living Lizard!"
Story:
Art: Don Heck
Heroes: Henry Gordon [scientist]
Villains: Droom [Droomedia Rex, lizard that grows]
Others: military
Genre: Monster, Science Fiction
Setting: 1960's America
Reprinted In: Fantasy Masterpieces#8; Where Monsters Dwell#28; Marvel Monsters TPB; Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
Synopsis: Gordon is experimenting with a growth serum that would solve hunger problems, but it accidentally splashes on a lizard, who continues to grow and grow, until he threatens the entire country. Finally, soldiers strap rockets onto Droom, and launch him into outer space. 10 million years later, Droom becomes the first of his species on a world that would one day be known as...Earth.
"Return of the Genie"
Reprinted In: Vault of Evil#11; Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
"No Way Out"
Reprinted In: Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
"Fangs of the Bear"
Reprinted In: Marvel Masterworks: Tales to Astonish Vol. 1
Title: "I Found Monstrom! The Dweller in the Black Swamp!"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers
Heroes: John [writer]
Others: Monstrom [monstrous alien], Billy [John's son], Sara [John's wife]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: The Bayous of New Orleans
Reprinted In: Fear#1; Chamber of Chills#18
Synopsis: John finds Monstrom in the swamp, and leads the townspeople against him, driving him below the swamp; Monstrom returns to his spacecraft to wait until humans are no longer fearful of those who are different.
Title: "My Nightmare Has No End!"
Story:
Art: Don Heck
Heroes: unnamed man
Villains: alien from Zendu
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: Prison; Dimension of Zendu
Reprinted In: Fantasy Masterpieces#4; Fear#4; Tomb of Darkness#19
Synopsis: A man is visited in his dreams by an alien from Zendu, who proposes that they trade bodies. The man agrees, and the alien believes that soon he will experience all that the earth has to offer, only to find that the man was sleeping in a cell on death row.
Notes: Titled "I am the Beast Man!" in Fantasy Masterpieces#4.
Title: "A Monster Waits Outside!!"
Story:
Art: Steve Ditko
Heroes: Major Ford [astronaut]
Villains: alien creature [hallucination?]
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: 1960's America
Reprinted In: Fear#3; Chamber of Chills#24
Synopsis: Ford is launched into space and is attacked by a creature, but then awakens to find no evidence of being attacked...except for a claw attached to the outer hull of his vessel.
Title: "Save Me! Save Me!"
Story:
Art: Paul Reinman
Villains: Albert Poole [scientist]
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: 1960's America
Reprinted In: Fear#3
Synopsis: Poole alters his atoms so that he can walk on water in order to steal government plans, but then finds he can't walk on land anymore.
Title: "I Discovered Gorgilla"
Story:
Art: Jack Kirby
Heroes: Scotty [anthropologist]
Villains: Gorgilla [giant ape], a tyrannosaurus rex, hostile natives
Others: Frank, other explorers
Genre: Monster, Fantasy
Setting: Midnight Mountain, Borneo
Reprinted In: Monsters on the Prowl#9; Weird Wonder Tales#21
Synopsis: Scotty's party travels to Midnight Mountain in search of the missing link and find Gorgilla; Gorgilla attacks them, but then assaults a T-rex. They escape, and leave Gorgilla where he is.
Notes: Gorgilla returns in Marvel Universe #4-7; Dr. Druid retconned into being Scotty in Weird Wonder Tales#21.
Title: "I Challenged...Groot! The Monster From Planet X!"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers
Heroes: Leslie Evans [scientist]
Villains: Groot [tree-like alien, ruler of "Planet X", dies]
Others: Alice Evans [Leslie's wife]
Genre: Science Fiction, Monster
Setting: 1960's America
Reprinted In: Marvel Monster Masterworks; Where Monsters Dwell#6; Weird Wonder Tales#19
Synopsis: Monstrous Groot invades earth, intending to bring specimens back to Planet X with him, sends trees to attack humans. Killed by termites sent by Leslie Evans.
Notes: Helped inspire story of Gormuu in Fantastic Four#271; Groot returns in Incredible Hulk Annual#5
Title: "I Found the Abominable Snowman!"
Story:
Art: Jack Kirby
Villains: Carl Hanson [explorer]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: Calcutta; Tibet
Reprinted In: Tomb of Darkness#19; Chamber of Darkness#7
Synopsis: Hanson goes looking for the abominable snowman, only to learn of the curse which transforms those who search into the Abominable Snowman themselves.
Title: "My Friend Is...Not Quite Human
Story:
Art: Steve Ditko
Heroes: Gustav [woodcarver]
Others: Napoleon Bonaparte, wooden statue of a woman, gypsy
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1799, Amiens, France
Reprinted In: Where Monsters Dwell#6
Synopsis: Gustav, who carves gargoyles, is forced by Napoleon to carve him a woman; he falls in love with the statue, and when it briefly comes to life one evening, he decides to become a wooden man so that they can be together; he takes a potion from a gypsy without paying to be transformed, but the gypsy has her revenge by turning the statue into a woman.
Title: "I Found the Hidden World"
Story:
Art: Don Heck
Heroes: Joey [former crook]
Villains: Frankie [Joey's old partner], creatures from other dimension
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: 1960's America
Reprinted In: Tower of Shadows#8
Synopsis: Joey tries to find out if other dimensions can be reached through television; his one-time partner Frankie appears to enact revenge, but is pulled into another dimension by a creature there, never to return.
Title: "Krang!"
Story:
Art: Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers
Heroes: Professor Carter [scientist]
Villains: Krang [ant grown to immense size and intellect, dies]
Others: an anteater, Ludwig [hunchback caretaker]
Genre: Science Fiction, Monster
Setting: Europe
Reprinted In: Fear#4; Weird Wonder Tales#18
Synopsis: Carter develops a growth serum, but his jealous assistant Ludwig pours a vial onto an ant, who becomes gigantic and demands Carter give him the formula. Carter defeats Krang by growing an anteater to an immense size and stop him.
Title: "The Thing in Human Form"
Story:
Art: Don Heck
Villains: Ogor [Martian spy]
Others: Zeno [Jupiter spy disguised as John Cummings]
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: 1960's America
Reprinted In: Chamber of Darkness#8
Synopsis: Ogor goes to Earth to capture scientist John Cummings so that his people can use his atomic weapons, but Cummings overpowers Ogor and captures him-- he's actually Zeno, a spy from Jupiter.
Notes: Title changed to "The Beast That Walks Like a Man" in reprint.
Title: "I Learned The Dread Secret of The Blip!"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers
Heroes: unnamed radio operator, the Blip [benevolent electrical alien]
Villains: townspeople of Oakville
Genre: Science Fiction, Monster
Setting: 1960's Oakville
Reprinted In: Marvel Monster Masterworks; Giant-Size Man-Thing#2; Fear#2
Synopsis: The Blip, a benevolent alien arrives on earth, draining electricity from the town of Oakville to recharge itself after being trapped in a space/time warp. Frigtened humans attack the Blip, so he departs without sharing his knowledge with them.
Notes: The Blip returns in Incredible Hulk Annual#5 and Fantastic Four Unlimited#7
Title: "I Dared Enter the Forbidden World!"
Story:
Art: Don Heck
Villains: Derek [ivory hunter]
Others: Martians [Uxmal, Antogg], John [ivory hunter]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: Africa
Reprinted In: Giant-Size Man-Thing#2; Fear#2
Synopsis: Derek and John are close to finding the elephant graveyard, but Derek shoots John in the leg to keep him from sharing in the wealth. At the gravesite, Derek is captured by Martians, who reveal that they bred the mastodon to earth, and have been bringing ivory back to Mars for centuries. They put Derek to work as their slave.
Title: "I am the Invisible"
Story:
Art: Steve Ditko
Villains: Karlos Konak [would-be conqueror]
Others: Zuka [gypsy woman]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: Black Thunder Mountain, Europe
Reprinted In: Chamber of Darkness#8
Synopsis: Konak has Zuka give him a lens which will turn objects invisible and uses it on himself, but when he becomes invisible to the world, the world becomes invisible to him likewise.
"I Defied the Curse of Tut-Ah-Anka"
Reprinted In: Fear#2
Title: "Vandoom, the Man Who Made a Creature!"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers
Heroes: Vandoom [wax sculptor], Vandoom's Creature [wax creature brought to life]
Villains: Martians
Others: Transylvanians
Genre: Science Fiction, Monster
Setting: 1960's Transylvania
Reprinted In: Marvel Monster Masterworks; Where Creatures Roam#4
Synopsis: Vandoom makes an immense wax statue, which lightning brings to life; villagers try to destroy it, but it winds up saving them from Martian invaders, exhausting its energy, becoming inert again. The creature is returned to the museum, honored by the village.
"Beware of the Ghastly Glass"
Reprinted In: Where Creatures Roam#4
"I Dared to Enter the Haunted Room"
Reprinted In: Tower of Shadows#9
Title: "Monsteroso!"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Steve Ditko
Villains: Monsteroso [monstrous creature, dies]
Others: Professor, Smith
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: Microscopic alien world
Reprinted In: Fantasy Masterpieces#9
Synopsis: Monsteroso hatches from an egg, and grows rapidly, intending to become so powerful that he will conquer the stars-- but he is killed by a sudden flood, caused in a laboratory, as a professor cleans the slide Monsteroso's world lay upon.
"Gorgilla Strikes Again"
Reprinted In: Where Creatures Roam#5
Title: "Robot on the Rampage"
Story:
Art: Steve Ditko
Heroes: lighthouse keeper
Villains: beserk robot
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: "a few years in the future"
Reprinted In: Marvel Super-Heroes#31
Synopsis: A robot turns against the lighthouse keeper he works with; he plans to starve his master out of the lighthouse, but is exposed to so much salt water that he is rust immobile.
"Rommbu!"
Reprinted In: Where Monsters Dwell#7
"The Thing With Red Eyes"
Reprinted In: Where Monsters Dwell#7
"The Terrible Trap"
Reprinted In: Where Monsters Dwell#7
Title: "What was 'X' The Thing That Lived!"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers
Heroes: Charles Bentley [Marvel Comics writer]
Villains: X [shapeshifter], sea serpent, two-headed flying lizard [all created by typewriter, all destroyed]
Others: Marvel Comics' editor [Martin Goodman?]
Genre: Science Fiction, Monster
Setting: 1960's New York
Reprinted In: Marvel Monster Masterworks; Fear#2
Synopsis: Charles Bentley, Marvel monster comic writer, discovers his creations are coming to life-- including the most powerful of them all, X. Only by smashing his typewriter is X finally destroyed.
Notes: X returns in Alpha Flight#17.
"One-Way Journey"
Reprinted In: Fear#2
Title: "Trull the Unhuman"
Story:
Art: Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers
Heroes: Phil [architect]
Villains: Trull [disembodied alien from Delta Centurius Galaxy]
Others: Gloria [Phil's ex-lover[, Bart Hanson [Phil's rival], Rajah [elephant]
Genre: Science Fiction, Monster
Setting: 1960's, Africa
Reprinted In: Creatures on the Loose#10
Synopsis: Trull dies when his ship crashes on earth, but he takes possession of a steamshovel. Supposed coward Phil defeats Trull with the aid of an elephant.
"It Happened on the Silent Screen"
Reprinted In: Where Monsters Dwell#8
"Open Wider Please"
"Help!"
Title: "The Voice From Nowhere!"
Story:
Art: Steve Ditko
Heroes: spaceman
Others: alien asteroid [from the fourth galaxy]
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: the future, outer space
Reprinted In: Monsters on the Prowl#14
Synopsis: A spaceman lands on an asteroid to make repairs, and hears a voice calling for help, wanting to know where the fourth galaxy is; he directs it, and learns the voice comes from the asteroid itself.
"Less Than Human"
Reprinted In: Monsters on the Prowl#22
Title: "I Found the Abominable Snowman"
Story:
Art: Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers
Heroes: Victor Cartwright, producer of "So You Want To See It"
Villains: Lizard Men [masquerade as abominable snowman], Octo-Monster
Others: Fred Cooper [Victor's assistant], Don Jordan [Victor's rival at another network]
Genre: Monster, Fantasy
Setting: 1960's, Himalayas
Synopsis: Cartwright responds to a challenge from Jordan by going to the Himalayas to find the abominable snowman; he discovers that the underground-dwelling Lizard Men are responsible, and seals them within their caves.
Notes: The Lizard Men return in Marvel Universe#6.
"Something Missing"
Reprinted In: Where Creatures Roam#5
"He Waits in the Dark"
Reprinted In: Where Creatures Roam#5
Title: "I Was Captured By The Creature From Krogarr!"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers
Heroes: Joe Hanson [loafer]
Villains: Creatures From Krogarr [hostile aliens]
Others: Clara Hanson [Joe's wife]
Genre: Science Fiction, Monster
Setting: 1960's, planet of Krogarr
Reprinted In: Marvel Monster Masterworks; Creatures On the Loose#13; Weird Wonder Tales#17
Synopsis: Joe Hanson is taken to the world of Krogarr through his television set, and learns that they intend to use his tv to invade humanity, but because Joe didn't pay his tv bill, the service is cut off, and he returns home, having saved humanity.
Title: "Where Lurks the Ghost!"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Steve Ditko
Heroes: Mike [disbeliving sort]
Others: Joe [ghost expert], the caretaker of Brent Mansion
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: Brent Mansion
Reprinted In: Chamber of Chills#23; Creatures on the Loose#15
Synopsis: Mike spends a night in Brent Mansion, reputed to be haunted, but finds only the friendly caretaker; the next morning he learns that the caretaker has been dead for 50 years-- he is the ghost of Brent Mansion!
Title: "Behold Him! He is the Martian!"
Story:
Art: Jack Kirby
Heroes: Agent X [Venusian spy]
Villains: Dan Blake [astronaut, Martian invader]
Others: other Venusians
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: 1960's America; Venus
Reprinted In: Weird Wonder Tales#15; Where Creatures Roam#8
Synopsis: Agent X unmasks Blake as a Martian invader and thwarts his plot to end earth's space program.
Notes: Same plot as "A Martian Walks Among Us" from Strange Tales #78.
Title: "The Gypsy's Revenge"
Story:
Art: Don Heck
Villains: Monk Morgan [robber]
Others: old gypsy man
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: Europe
Reprinted In: Monsters On the Prowl#14
Synopsis: Morgan kills an old gypsy for his jewels, but then while having his fortune told in the states is confronted by the same gypsy, and finds that he has trapped him within a void.
"Look Out! Here Come the Four-Armed Men!"
Reprinted In: Where Monsters Dwell#8; Chamber of Chills#19
"He Walked Through Walls"
Reprinted In: Fear#4; Chamber of Chills#22
Title: "Run, Rocky, Run!"
Story:
Art: Bob Forgione
Villains: Rocky Jordan [convict]
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: 1960's America
Reprinted In: Where Monsters Dwell#8
Synopsis: Desperate to escape the law, Rocky hears of a rocket being launched and decides to hide aboard it, but it turns out to be a remote-controlled rocket only inches tall.
"Dream World"
Reprinted In: Where Monsters Dwell#8; Chamber of Chills#19; Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko
Title: "The Man in the Ant Hill!"
Story: Stan Lee, Larry Leiber
Art: Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers
Heroes: Hank Pym [bio-chemist]
Villains: ants
Others: Pym's scientific colleagues
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: Pym's laboratory, New Jersey
Reprinted In: The Essential Ant-Man; Marvel Collector's Item Classics#22
Synopsis: Pym creates a formula that shrinks him down smaller than an ant; ants chase him through an ant hill, though one helps him escape; after returning to normal size, he gives up on his research, and gains new appreciation for ants.
Notes: Pym returns in Tales To Astonish#35.
"Dead Planet"
Reprinted In: Journey Into Mystery#19
"Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall"
Reprinted In: Vault of Evil#23
"The Talking Horse"
"The Scheme"
Title: "The Man Who Blew Up The Earth"
Story:
Art: Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers
Villains: Elias Cragstone [scientist, ugly man, dies]
Others: female scientist
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: 1960's America
Synopsis: Spurned by a scientist he loved, Cragstone builds a cobalt bomb to destroy the Earth from orbit so that only he will survive, but accidentally kills himself; the blast creates a glow that the woman scientist finds beautiful.
"The Last Laugh"
Reprinted In: Fear#6
"When the Space Beasts Attack"
Reprinted In: Monsters on the Prowl#12
Title: "Quogg!"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Steve Ditko
Villains: unnamed convict, Quogg [monster]
Others: Africans
Genre: Monster
Setting: 1960's Africa
Reprinted In: Where Monsters Dwell#12; Vault of Evil#20
Synopsis: A convict tries to hide where natives claim the creature Quogg lurks and sets up his base at an abandoned hut...but Quogg is the hut itself.
Title: "What Was the Staggering Secret of the 13th Floor"
Story:
Art: Don Heck
Heroes: Willy Sloane [an elevator man]
Villains: a Communist agent
Others: Mr. Jordan [friend of Willy]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: America
Reprinted In: Creatures on the Loose#14; Crypt of Shadows#18
Synopsis: Willy believes that everyone exists for a greater purpose; when a communist agent boards the elevator with a bomb, Willy lets him off on the 13th floor-- which doesn't exist! Willy then vanishes, having completed his task on earth.
Title: "The Thing From the Hidden Swamp"
Story:
Art: Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers
Heroes: Mary Brown [plain-looking woman]
Others: alien
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: Caribbean island swamp
Reprinted In: Journey Into Mystery#18; Monsters on the Prowl#13
Synopsis: Mary helps an alien return to space and he rewards her by making her beautiful.
"The Return of the Gorilla Man"
Reprinted In: Fear#5
Title: "It Fell From The Flying Saucer!"
Story:
Art: Jack Kirby
Heroes: unnamed artist
Others: Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Davy Crockett, alien
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: 1960's America
Reprinted In: Fantasy Masterpieces#5; Weird Wonder Tales#16; Monsters on the Prowl#13
Synopsis: An artist finds a paintbrush dropped from a flying saucer, and uses it to bring whatever he draws to reality; he finally makes himself ruler of the earth, but no one believes him when he says he got the brush from aliens. To prove to them that aliens exist, he draws the saucer, but an alien from inside takes the brush back and restores everything to normal.
"The Pretender"
Reprinted In: Where Monsters Dwell#12
Title: "When the Mummy Walks"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Jack Kirby
Heroes: Paul Kentworth [archaeologist]
Villains: Jason Wilkes [Paul's assistant, dies], mummy [giant alien, dies]
Others: Gloria Carstairs [socialite]
Genre: Science Fiction, Monster
Setting: 1960's Egypt and America
Reprinted In: Where Creatures Roam#8; Journey Into Mystery#19
Synopsis: Paul discovers the mummy within a pyramid, but is an alien invader; his traitorous assistant Jason is killed by the mummy, and then the mummy dies itself, unable to breathe Earth's atmosphere.
"The Man of Iron"
Reprinted In: Crypt of Shadows#13
Title: "The Girl in the Black Hood!"
Story: Larry Lieber
Art: Don Heck
Villains: Mr. Jones [robber]
Others: May Dusa [photographer, Medusa]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1920's America
Reprinted In: Giant-Size Dracula#2
Synopsis: Jones hears of the reclusive photographer May Dusa, whose face has never been seen, and decides to rob her, but when he sees her face, he turns to stone-- she's Medusa.
Title: "Quicksand"
Story:
Art: Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers
Heroes: Geoffrey Wickshire [blind, wealthy man]
Villains: Sir Edmund Wickshire [Geoffrey's brother, dies]
Others: Leprecauns
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: England, moors
Synopsis: Edmund tries to drown Geoffrey in quicksand, but Geoffrey is befriended by the Leprecauns who dwell there and goes home to tell Edmund he can have the estate; Edmund leaps from the window at the sight of him.
Title: "The Bully Boy"
Story:
Art: Jack Kirby, Paul Reinman
Heroes: robot teacher
Others: Henry Fuller [picked-on kid]
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: 1960's America
Synopsis: A robot teacher trains Fuller self-defense so that he won't be picked on, but Fuller uses his training to bully others in return. The robot shuts itself off in despair.
"I Am a Martian"
Title: "What Happened in...Dead Storage"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers
Heroes: Victor Marshall [retired actor]
Villains: Aliens including Koru [scout, dies]
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: America
Reprinted In: Creatures on the Loose#14
Synopsis: Marshall is entering an unhappy retirement, when he comes upon aliens plotting to invade earth; he kills Koru and takes his place, then convinces the aliens that earth's atmosphere is fatal to them; they flee, and he retires happily.
"The Voice of Fate"
Reprinted In: Fear#6
"The Frightened Man"
Reprinted In: Creatures on the Loose#16
"The Absent-Minded Professor"
Reprinted In: Crypt of Shadows#20
"Dance You Fool"
Reprinted In: Crypt of Shadows#12
Title: "The Doorway to Nowhere"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Steve Ditko
Heroes: Hugo Cragg [robber]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1960's America
Synopsis: Cragg discovers a portal to another dimension in his closet, and is brought into the other world.
Title: "The Thing From Outer Space"
Story:
Art: Don Heck
Heroes: Colonel John Rogers [Space Corps]
Others: plant from Nyanthos
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: 2006, earth and Nyanthos
Synopsis: Rogers returns from Nyanthos with his mind in a plant, and the plant in his body. When it is discovered that this will happen to any human who visits Nyanthos, the planet is quarantined.
"The Hands of Time"
"The Search For Pan"
"Afraid to Dream!"
"The Star Raiders"
Title: "I Found the Impossible World"
Story: Stan Lee, Larry Lieber
Art: Don Heck
Heroes: John Fleming [scientist]
Villains: unnamed invaders
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: 1960's America
Reprinted In:
Synopsis: Fleming journeys to the future, and witnesses their marvels. He attempts to steal their treasures, and is jailed for it; after 10 years, they wipe his memory and send him back to his own time.
"Secret of the Statues"
Title: "Ozamm the Terrible!"
Story: Stan Lee, Larry Lieber
Art: Don Heck
Heroes: Joe Baxter [engineer]
Villains: Ozamm [alien invader]
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: 1960's America
Reprinted In: Where Monsters Dwell#29
Synopsis: Ozamm terrifies the nation with his astounding powers that no one can defeat-- until Baxter cuts off his electrical supply from his ship, leaving him a sideshow attraction.
Title: "The Toy Soldiers"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Steve Ditko
Villains: Zogg [invader from other dimension]
Others: Billy Barton, his parents, toy soldiers
Genre: Fantasy, Science Fiction
Setting: 1960's America
Reprinted In: Uncanny Tales From the Grave#8
Synopsis: When Zogg invades Earth, Billy's toy soldiers take him captive.
"Water Fountain"
Title: "I Was Trapped in the Mad Universe!"
Story: Stan Lee, Larry Leiber
Art: Don Heck
Heroes: Tommy Jordan [child]
Others: Ginger [Tommy's dog], Phil Jordan and his wife [Tommy's parents], man from the year 3,000 A.D., parallel world versions of Tommy, his parents, and Ginger
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: 1960's America
Reprinted In: Star Wars Weekly#129
Synopsis: Tommy finds a marble that sends him to a parallel world where he meets his counterpart. The marble turns out to be an electronic dimension-breaker lost by a time traveler, who helps return Tommy to his own dimension.
"The Worst Man on Earth"
"When the Beast Walks!"
"The Curse!"
"The Eyes of the Mummy"
"I am Not Human!"
Reprinted In: Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko
"Frankie's Fast Ball!"
"My Fatal Mistake!"
Title: "Hunted"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Steve Ditko
Others: "plague-carrier" [man on the run]
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: New York, 2000 A.D.
Synopsis: A man is pursued across New York for carrying a "plague", but is finally caught and forced to surrender the plague-causing instrument known as a gun, which had been banned to prevent war.
Notes: Because, of course, we didn't have wars until guns arrived...
"Bronson's Brain"
"It Walks Like a Man"
"The Secret of the Swamp!"
"The Most Dangerous Weapon"
"The Smiling Gods"
Title: "Grayson's Gorilla"
Story: Stan Lee, Larry Leiber
Art: Larry Leiber, Matt Fox
Heroes: Harvey Grayson [scientist]
Others: a gorilla
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: 1960's America
Synopsis: Grayson wants the strength of a gorilla and attempts to transfer it to himself from a gorilla, but instead turns into the gorilla and the gorilla into him.
Title: "The Little Green Man"
Story: Stan Lee
Art: Steve Ditko
Heroes: Jasper Jenks [pilot]
Others: alien
Genre: Science Fiction
Setting: 1960's America
Synopsis: An alien asks Jenks for help repairing his radio and Jenks agrees provided the alien make his plane fly twice as fast; the alien agrees, but Jenks discards him before discovering that he doesn't know how to land the newly-renovated plane-- and the plane will never run out of fuel.
"The End of the World"
"There Were Five Frightened Men"
Reprinted In: Fantasy Masterpieces#10