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Quote1 I will fly one someday! I will... I must! Quote2
—Jayson

Appearing in "Crack-Up!"

Reprint of the 6th story from
Marvel Tales #138

Featured Characters:

  • Jayson

Supporting Characters:

  • Unnamed Instructor

Other Characters:

  • Jayson's Father
  • Jayson's Mother

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Synopsis for "Crack-Up!"

Reprint of the 6th story from
Marvel Tales #138

Pilots who can't make the grade in rocket flight school are tested in simulations.

Appearing in "I Was Kidnapped by a Flying Saucer!"

Reprint of the 3rd story from
Marvel Tales #138
(originally printed as The Little Men!)

Featured Characters:

  • Frank Ferris

Supporting Characters:

  • Mabel Ferris
  • Cluny the Giant

Antagonists:

  • Unidentified Aliens
    • Numerous unnamed aliens

Other Characters:

  • Frank's Brother (Referenced)
  • Frank Ferris Jr.
  • Colonel Mite (Mentioned)
  • Colonel Mite's Wife (Mentioned)

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Synopsis for "I Was Kidnapped by a Flying Saucer!"

Reprint of the 3rd story from
Marvel Tales #138
(originally printed as The Little Men!)

A carnival owner comes across small aliens who are spraying crops so that humans who eat the food will produce midgets so they won't have a size advantage when they invade, but he fools them into leaving Earth by claiming that the food is only producing small children ten percent of the time and producing giants the rest. He displays his circus giant to them as proof and they buy into his lie and leave.

Appearing in "The Unwanted!"

Reprint of the 4th story from
Marvel Tales #125

Featured Characters:

  • Colonists
    • Derk
    • Mark
    • Numerous unnamed colonists

Antagonists:

Other Characters:

  • Neils (Corpse, skeleton or other remains)

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Synopsis for "The Unwanted!"

Reprint of the 4th story from
Marvel Tales #125

Human colonists are forced off Mars and so attempt to return to Earth only to be rejected by the cavemen remnants left after atomic war. They go into orbit around Earth and wait for the cavemen to evolve to the point that they will no longer be considered another race.

Appearing in "Murdock's Brain!"

Reprint of the 6th story from
Marvel Tales #126

Featured Characters:

  • Professor Murdock

Supporting Characters:

  • Professor Hastings

Other Characters:

  • Unnamed Premier

Races and Species:

Locations:

Synopsis for "Murdock's Brain!"

Reprint of the 6th story from
Marvel Tales #126

Murdock invents a serum that will preserve his brain even though his body appears dead because he hopes to avoid atomic war that is impending. Peace breaks out and scientific advances occur that allow immortality, but Murdock lies in a coffin appearing dead but really just thinking, immobile.

Notes

  • Story 2 I Was Kidnapped by a Flying Saucer!
    • original title was The Little Men

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