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Appearing in "The Thing That Devoured a Planet"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Adventures into Weird Worlds #2
(originally printed as The Iron Door)

Featured Characters:

  • People of Earth

Supporting Characters:

  • Karra

Antagonists:

  • Vashto

Races and Species:

Locations:

Items:

  • "The Mechanical Brain" (Book)

Synopsis for "The Thing That Devoured a Planet"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Adventures into Weird Worlds #2
(originally printed as The Iron Door)

In the future humankind relies heavily on machines, when it all begins to fail they put their faith in a man called Vashto. Vashto braves through the "Iron Door" and confronts what the people of Earth think the problem is which is a saboteur. Vashto shoots said saboteur and leaves him for dead as he flees. The people of earth enter the door and learn the man that was shot was Karra the one who built the machines and had been running them. He explains in his dying breath that Vashto was from Saturn and it was they who stalled his work. As he die Karra thinks to himself that it was his fault for allowing people to rely so much on machines and that perhaps it's better they die out this way.

Appearing in "Enter: the Machine Age"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Journey into Mystery #17
(originally printed without story title)
  • Appearances not yet listed

Synopsis for "Enter: the Machine Age"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Journey into Mystery #17
(originally printed without story title)
  • Synopsis not yet written

Appearing in "It Came from Beneath the Earth"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Adventures into Weird Worlds #12
(originally printed as Find the Pin and Pick It Up)

Featured Characters:

  • Professor Smoggs

Supporting Characters:

  • Haiti (Dog)

Antagonists:

  • Mr. Briggs

Other Characters:

  • Kali (Mr. Briggs' Servant)

Races and Species:

Items:

  • Devil Doll

Synopsis for "It Came from Beneath the Earth"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Adventures into Weird Worlds #12
(originally printed as Find the Pin and Pick It Up)

A man's neighbor gives his dog a load of buckshot when it trespasses, so he uses voodoo to get even with him. What he doesn't know is that his intended victim has a servant who is familiar with occult practices so the dying man begs the servant to teach him the secret of reincarnation so that he may have his revenge. The dog heals up well enough to go for a walk once more, so its owner stabs the voodoo doll through the heart, killing its likeness. Startlingly, the victim's soul transfers into the dog at the moment of death, which leaps at its owner's throat in order to claim revenge.

Appearing in "The Eye of Doom"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Mystic #6The Eye of Doom

Featured Characters:

  • Hoyt Gilpin (Main story and as }} {{Death in flashback)
  • Unnamed Weather Station Attendant (Death)

Supporting Characters:

  • Lon Ullrich (Main story and as }} {{Death in flashback)

Antagonists:

  • Venusian Floating Eyes (Main story and flashback)

Other Characters:

  • Venusian Rat (Only in flashback) (Death)

Races and Species:

Locations:

  • Earth (Main story and flashback)
    • Moon (Only in flashback)
    • Weather Station Building
  • Venus (Main story and flashback)

Vehicles:

  • Gilpin-Ullrich Spaceship

Synopsis for "The Eye of Doom"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Mystic #6The Eye of Doom

Floating eyes from Venus invade Earth.

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