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Appearing in "The Monster in the Iron Mask!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Tales of Suspense #31The Monster in the Iron Mask!

Featured Characters:

  • Bobby

Supporting Characters:

  • Mr. Lane

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Synopsis for "The Monster in the Iron Mask!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Tales of Suspense #31The Monster in the Iron Mask!

An alien lands with a mission to soften up Earth for an attack. He is impervious to small arms fire, artillery and even a direct hit from an atomic bomb. He tells the humans he is only vulnerable to gas attack and that is why he wears the iron mask. A magician practicing misdirection with his son realizes the monster has been doing the same thing and tells the army to use gas. They don't think it will work and are reluctant, but he insists. He is positive it will work. They try it and the monster flees the planet. The magician realizes that the alien was using misdirection to protect his sole weakness. That was his real face.

Appearing in "Forever is a Long Long Time!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Journey Into Mystery #74
(originally printed as The Thing in the Black Box!)

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Synopsis for "Forever is a Long Long Time!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Journey Into Mystery #74
(originally printed as The Thing in the Black Box!)
Journey Into Mystery Vol 1 74 001

A victim of a shipwreck washes up on a not quite deserted isle where he stumbles over beautiful Pandora and her box. Pandora is malevolent and tricks him into opening the box for her whereupon she commands the demon that emerges to make all of mankind her slave. The man begs Pandora to be allowed to return to the mainland, and she grants his request, but he has a plan and returns with a set of mirrors which he rings around the sleeping Pandora. When she awakes she cries out in despair that they be taken away. The man had gambled that centuries-old Pandora's beauty had to be the result of hypnosis, but no one can hypnotize a mirror. He says the mirrors will be removed if she orders the demon back into the box. She does so, and they bury the box deep in the earth, and leave Pandora on her isle with her illusion of beauty.

Appearing in "The Thing from the Hidden Swamp"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Tales to Astonish #30
(originally printed as The Return of the Gorilla-Man)

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Supporting Characters:

  • Professor Stuyvesant

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Other Characters:

  • Romanian Gendarmerie (Only in recap)
  • Eric
  • Academy of Science (Mentioned)

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Locations:

  • Earth (Main story and recap)
    • Europe (Main story and recap)
      • Transylvania (Main story and recap)
      • Franz Radzik's Castle (Only in recap)

Items:

  • Personality Swap Device (Only in recap)

Synopsis for "The Thing from the Hidden Swamp"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Tales to Astonish #30
(originally printed as The Return of the Gorilla-Man)

Despite the end of the story in Tales to Astonish #28 seemingly indicating Gorilla-Man's mind regressing to that of a beast, in this issue Gorilla-Man's mental facility seems to be completely unimpaired. While locked in a cage at the zoo, a young boy throws a box of crayons at him and he uses the crayon to write a message promising a reward if the cage attendant will free him. The shocked zoo official opens the cage, and the wily gorilla quickly brushes him aside. He reasons that his old equipment will have been dismantled and thus he will need the help of another scientist to transfer back into a human body. When he reaches the estate, he burns his hands on the electric fence and can no longer write or speak, yet he manages to convey the impression to the scientist that he is intelligent. They put him through several tests before placing him into the back of a van and he hopes that he's being taken to a laboratory where his mind can be transferred, but what they want to use him for instead is to take the place of a human volunteer that would otherwise have to be sacrificed on a space capsule launch.

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