Appearing in "When the Mummy Walks"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Mummy That Walks (First appearance; dies)
- Jason Wilkes (First appearance; dies)
Other Characters:
- Lord Randolph (First appearance)
- Mr. Carstairs (Gloria's Father) (First appearance)
Races and Species:
Locations:
Synopsis for "When the Mummy Walks"
A man has a theory that the Egyptian pyramids where built as copies of single large pyramid that was built as a prison to contain some menace. He travels to Egypt to locate the lost pyramid and succeeds in finding it. Unknown to him, his assistant is plotting to kill him and grab the glory of the discovery for himself. When the man penetrates the inner chamber, he discovers a huge mummy lying on a stone slab. The assistant sets off explosive charges to seal the man in the crypt with the mummy, and the mummy stirs, awoken by the sound of the explosion. The mummy scoffs at his 'prison' theory, stating "I built this myself as I am an alien to your world, though my memory is clouded after my long sleep and I cannot recall why." The mummy attacks the man and he hides, but the mummy knocks a hole into the pyramid wall. When they emerge, the assistant dies of fright at the shock of the sight and the mummy recalls too late that this planet's atmosphere is poisonous to him which is why he built the pyramid shelter. The mummy topples dead in the sand and the man is saved.
Appearing in "Dead Planet"
Featured Characters:
- Henry Pym (First appearance) (Origin revealed) (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- Ants (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Various unnamed scientists (Main story and flashback)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Sol (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- North America (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- New Jersey
- Henry Pym's laboratory (First appearance)
- Science convention (Main story and flashback)
- New Jersey
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- North America (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
Items:
- Pym Particles (First appearance)
Synopsis for "Dead Planet"
Doctor Henry Pym declares success! He has successfully used his reducing serum to shrink a chair to doll size and used his enlarging serum to return it to normal size. Pym had been ridiculed months ago by his peers for his outlandish theories but has now perfected a pair of serums capable of changing the size of any object. Confident that his serums work, Pym tests them on himself.
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Placing a few drops of reducing serum on his arm, Henry Pym quickly shrinks. Now ant-sized, he realizes that he left the enlarging serum on the window sill; it might as well be on the moon. He goes out into the yard. Ants sense his presence and move toward him. Pym, still not thinking clearly, runs into an ant hill. Fleeing blindly through the tunnels, he falls into a shaft and lands in a pool of honey. Hopelessly trapped, he spots an ant crawling towards him. To Pym’s surprise, the ant pulls him free from the honey and lets him go unharmed. More ants appear. Pym notices a matchstick set in the ground and, hoping to create a diversion, throws a pebble at it. His aim is true, and the match lights.
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Pym fashions a lasso and climbs up to a ledge. There, another ant grabs him in its mandibles. Pym uses judo to flip the ant over the ledge and scrambles upward. Once out of the ant hill, with the colony in hot pursuit, he sees the friendly ant who saved him earlier. He points upward to tell the ant where he needs to go. The ant climbs the wall with Pym aboard. He wades into the test tube with the serum and immediately returns to normal. Convinced that his invention is dangerous, he dumps his serums down the drain.
Appearing in "They Vanished Forever!"
Featured Characters:
- Daily Herald
- Frank Taylor
Supporting Characters:
- Helen Taylor
Antagonists:
- Unnamed Alien
Other Characters:
- United States Army
- Numerous unnamed professional wrestlers
- Lefty (Baseball Player)
- United States Government
- Government of Russia
- Igor (Weight Lifter)
- Unnamed Golf Professional
- Unnamed Animal Trainer
- Numerous unnamed chess players
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earthspace
- Earth
- North America
- Brazil (Mentioned)
- Europe
- Pacific Ocean
- Japan (Mentioned)
- Earth
- Heaven (Invoked)
Synopsis for "They Vanished Forever!"
An alien lands on Earth and issues a challenge to best any man at any contest or the Earth will be invaded. The alien is tested at various sports and games and defeats all comers until one man takes him out to a secluded cave and challenges the alien to sport of sleeping for which he holds the record of one million years. The alien proposes to sleep for two million years. Guards are set up around the cave to keep any from disturbing the creature and the man's formerly nagging wife is eternally grateful to him for saving Earth.
