Appearing in "What Happened in Dead Storage?"
Tales to Astonish #33
(originally printed as What Happened in... Dead Storage)
Featured Characters:
- Victor Marshall (Impersonates Koru)
Antagonists:
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earthspace
- Heaven (Referenced)
Synopsis for "What Happened in Dead Storage?"
Tales to Astonish #33
(originally printed as What Happened in... Dead Storage)
An actor from yesteryear longs to return to the stage, but no agents can offer him any work. Disheartened, he resolves put aside the past and packs up his mementos to place them in storage. As he is driving to the address he was given over the phone, he holds the note upside down and drives to the wrong address. When he enters the building, he finds it to be in reality a disguised spaceship of aliens planning an attack upon Earth. He quickly resolves to ambush the spy they are waiting upon, and using makeup, takes his place. He gives the finest performance of his life in convincing the aliens that he's infected with a deadly virus and they must leave this world while he remains behind in a noble act of self-sacrifice.
Appearing in "What Was the Staggering Secret of the 13th Floor"
Tales to Astonish #30
(originally printed as The Return of the Gorilla-Man)
Featured Characters:
- Gorilla-Man (Frank Radzik) (Possesses Gorilla's body in recap and main story)
Supporting Characters:
- Professor Stuyvesant
Antagonists:
- Gorilla (Possesses Franz Radzik's body only in recap)
Other Characters:
- Romanian Gendarmerie (Only in recap)
- Eric
- Academy of Science (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and recap)
- Europe (Main story and recap)
- Transylvania (Main story and recap)
- Franz Radzik's Castle (Only in recap)
- Europe (Main story and recap)
Items:
- Personality Swap Device (Only in recap)
Synopsis for "What Was the Staggering Secret of the 13th Floor"
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.
Appearing in "Forewarned Is Four-Armed!"
Chamber of Darkness #2
(originally printed as Forewarned Is Fore-Armed!)
Featured Characters:
- Carl Brock (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- Headstone P. Gravely (Host)
Antagonists:
- "Dr. Caruthers" (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Digger (Riderick Krupp) (Mentioned)
- Numerous unnamed Prison Guards (Main story and flashback)
- Unnamed Warden
- Unnamed Governor (Mentioned)
- Devil (Mentioned)
- Unidentified Police Department (Only in flashback)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Unrevealed alien race (Main story and flashback)
- Rats (Mentioned)
- Rabbits (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Earth
- United States of America
- Unnamed Prison
- United States of America
- Unnamed Planet (Only in flashback) (Vision or hallucination)
Items:
- Unnamed Alien Mind Helmet (Only in flashback) (Destroyed)
Vehicles:
- Alien Spacecrafts (Only in flashback)
Synopsis for "Forewarned Is Four-Armed!"
Chamber of Darkness #2
(originally printed as Forewarned Is Fore-Armed!)
Four-armed alien invaders from a doomed planet make use of an escaped convict to learn of Earth, but they fix it so that no one understands his speech when he tries to warn of the impending assault.