All this has taught me a lesson-- we must never rely too completely on machines! We must rely more on ourselves! For it is only man who has a conscience! Only man who can be trusted to know right from wrong!

—Professor Jonas Weems

Appearing in "Only Twelve of Us May Live!"

Featured Characters:

Sfeen

Supporting Characters:

Canopus Minor World Council
- Unnamed President
- Councilman Makka
- Numerous unnamed members
Urbaam

Other Characters:

Numerous unnamed inhabitants of Canopus Minor

Races and Species:

Unidentifiedalien species
Insects(Mentioned)

Locations:

Unidentified Galaxy
- Unidentified Star System
  - Canopus Minor(First appearance)(Apparent destruction)
  - Unidentified Planet(Apparent destruction)

Items:

Sfeen's Electromagnetic Ray

Vehicles:

Spacecraft

Synopsis for "Only Twelve of Us May Live!"

After a rogue planet threatens to destroy an alien planet a scientist creates a shrinking ray so all their inhabitants could embark the only available ship.

Appearing in "The Spirit"

Reprint of the 3rd story from
Astonishing #49

Featured Characters:

Bobby Davis(First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

Tom Davis(First appearance)(Bobby's Father)
Alice Davis(First appearance)(Bobby's Mother)

Other Characters:

George Washington(Mentioned)
Spirit of '76(First appearance; behind the scenes)(Ghost, soul or spirit)

Races and Species:

Humans
Ghosts(Behind the scenes)

Locations:

Earth-616
- Earth
  - United States of America

Events:

American Revolutionary War(Mentioned)

Synopsis for "The Spirit"

Reprint of the 3rd story from
Astonishing #49

After a flood the Davis family is forced to move to an old home, their son Bobby who's saddened by the lack of other kids on the street is encouraged to help clean out the attic until he's able to make friends.

While cleaning the attic he meets a ghost who was General George Washington's aide during theAmerican Revolutionary War. The ghost helped the boy clean the attic as well as told him stories of what transpired and what in the attic was worth keeping.

At first his parents didn't believe him but after visiting the attic and finding it clean and some old army orders they started to. They started to even more when they heard the sounds of conversation coming from the attic when the boy would go up their before bed. The Davis family never sold the house after that even after making enough money to move to a better section of town.

Appearing in "Beware of Tomorrow!"

Featured Characters:

Mike Wells

Supporting Characters:

Stranger

Other Characters:

Unidentified Police Station
- Unnamed Sergeant
- Unnamed Police Officer
World News
- Unnamed Editor
- Joe
United States Army
- Unnamed Colonel

Races and Species:

Humans

Locations:

Earth
- United States of America
  - Mt. Kolmar
    - Mount Kolmar Observatory
  - Arizona

Items:

Mechanical Mole

Synopsis for "Beware of Tomorrow!"

A time traveler attempts to give three warnings of impending disasters to people in the past, but he is scorned and ridiculed every time. He returns to the future telling the one newsreporter that was willing to listen to him that the past cannot be changed in any way or there will be no future.

Appearing in "The Stranger in Space!"

Featured Characters:

Frank Mason(Past)

Supporting Characters:

Frank Mason(Future)

Races and Species:

Humans

Locations:

Earth-Unknown
- Milky Way
  - Unidentified Space Station
  - Earth(Mentioned)
    - United States of America(Mentioned)
      - Maine(Mentioned)
        Belfast(Mentioned)
  - Jupiter(Mentioned)

Vehicles:

X-671

Synopsis for "The Stranger in Space!"

A astronaut enters a time warp and ends up meeting his own self from the future.

Appearing in "Shadows in the Night!"

Featured Characters:

Elias Burbank

Supporting Characters:

Excelsior Soap Corporation
- Two unnamed employees

Races and Species:

Unidentifiedalien species

Locations:

Unidentified Dimension
Earth(Mentioned)

Items:

Elias Burbank's Transporting Machine

Synopsis for "Shadows in the Night!"

A scientist tries to prove his theory that there is an invisible world of people existing alongside us. But after he's even unable to send himself there the scientist gives up reaching that world...Earth!

Appearing in "He Made the Machines Go Mad!"

Featured Characters:

Professor Jonas Weems

Antagonists:

XTT-4

Races and Species:

Locations:

Earth-Unknown
- Earth

Items:

Impulse Tracer

Synopsis for "He Made the Machines Go Mad!"

An evil humanoid robot tries to use his powers to make all world machines go mad in order to become a dictator. However his creator tracks him down and is able to destroy the robot.

Notes

"The Stranger in Space!" is reprinted inStrange Tales Annual #1 &Vault of Evil #20.

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2."The Spirit"

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3. "Beware of Tomorrow!"

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4. "The Stranger in Space!"

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5. "Shadows in the Night!"

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Appearing in "Only Twelve of Us May Live!"

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Appearing in "The Spirit"

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Appearing in "Beware of Tomorrow!"

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Appearing in "The Stranger in Space!"

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Appearing in "Shadows in the Night!"

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