Appearing in "Alone Against Arcturus!"
Featured Characters:
- Morbius (Main story and recap)
Supporting Characters:
- Lord I (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Arcturans (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Daemond (Only in recap)
- Caretakers of Arcturus (Only in recap)
- Balkatar (Only in recap)
- King Gerark (Only in recap)
- Arcturan mutants (First appearance)
- Arcturans (Only in flashback)
Locations:
- Arcturus IV (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Land Within (Only in recap)
Synopsis for "Alone Against Arcturus!"
After passing through the wall in The Land Within, Morbius awakens on a strange planet hungering for blood. After wandering for days, he finds a young couple and attacks the man but is horrified to discover that he is not human. He reminisces about what’s happened thus far, then attacks and drains the woman, though not enough to kill her.
Travelling to a city in the distance, he is met by a mental projection of Lord I, Potentate of Arcuturus. Emerging from the shadows, Lord I explains that Morbius is to remain on Arcturus because the Caretakers cannot be allowed to complete their work on Earth. I explains that the Caretakers are the ancestors of the Arcturans, and that the tampering that was done caused an escalating war over the genetic future of their race. This war ended in nuclear annihilation. Most survivors went mad and fled the cities, living in tribes that have forgotten how they even came to be. Lord I and his fellow mutants had been created to be a super-intelligent and incredibly long-lived super-race but had been changed by the radioactive fallout that massively mutated their bodies, and left them all wishing to die.
Unwilling to believe Lord I’s statement, Morbius grabs a nearby woman and threatens to kill her. He is astounded as the Arcturans stand by silently and allow him to drain her completely. Realizing that this is the future in store for humanity, Morbius agrees that the Caretakers must die.
Appearing in "The Last Stop"
World of Fantasy #10
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Synopsis for "The Last Stop"
World of Fantasy #10
A driver feels guilty for not stopping to help a man he hits and so each successive day the truck he drives parks itself in front of a cemetery. He confesses to the police and the mechanics who check his truck inform him that the engine comes from a hearse so it was merely force of habit that the truck went to the cemetery every day.