Item Biography
"I Found Monstrom! The Dweller in the Black Swamp!"
Reprinted from Tales to Astonish (1959) #11.
A writer takes his family to the Black Swamp, where legends of a resident monster have existed for ages. When the writer's son stirs up the beast from the depths, the local townspeople react in fear and drive the monster back, unaware that it is a sentient being, patiently awaiting the time when it can request aid in repairing its spaceship. 7 pages.
"I Am the Man Who Will...Destroy Your World!"
Reprinted from Strange Tales (1951) #71.
Mool was the Emperor of an alien race that appeared human, but were eternal by means of an annual bath in their planet's rejuvenating waters. They decide to infiltrate and take over Earth, but Mool falls in love and directs his race to abandon their quest. 5 pages.
"I-Am-the-Genie!"
Reprinted from Tales to Astonish (1959) #8.
An ex-con finds a genie-in-a-bottle, and foolishly wishes for riches and revenge. He then gets the bright idea to wish himself to have all the power of the genie, but fails to foresee that servitude comes with the power. 6 pages.
"I Was Face-to-Face With the Forbidden Robot!"
Reprinted from Tales to Astonish (1959) #11.
A man has a scheme to gain esteem by capturing a rogue robot, but learns that the robot possesses nobler virtues than he does. 6 pages.
"What Was the Strange Power of Simon Drudd!!"
Reprinted from Tales to Astonish (1959) #10.
Simon Drudd is an aging scientist who invents a serum to reverse aging that goes wrong. Once started, it doesn't stop, and they only find his empty lab coat on the floor where he winked out of existance. 5 pages.
"Something Lurks Inside!"
Reprinted from Tales to Astonish (1959) #10.
The first astronaut to tour alien worlds fails to complete his return trip, instead circling the planet silently until he drops a capsule. Thinking it a bomb, the earth replies by blowing him out of the sky. The capsule contains his journal about how his ship became infected on an alien world, and how he could never return to Earth. 5 pages.
"Only I Know When the World Will End!!!"
Reprinted from Tales to Astonish (1959) #10.
A man is found who claims to be an alien with the power to travel telepathically from planet to planet, but who got lost in a space/time warp. When he discovers where he is, he gets distraught, claiming that the planet will be destroyed in two days time. He is treated as a lunatic, and escapes on the way to the sanitarium. Two days later, a planet in a neighboring galaxy is destroyed in the exact fashion he described. 6 pages.
"I Fought the Man Who Couldn't Be Killed"
Reprinted from Strange Tales (1951) #71.
A convict, tired of all the years in the slammer, escapes and goes on crime spree. When a policeman give chase, the man is amazed at the policeman's abilities. He had been in jail so long, he didn't realize that the police had switched to using robots, and he never stood a chance. 4 pages.
"Mummex---King of the Mummies!"
Reprinted from Tales to Astonish (1959) #8.
Archeologists in Egypt uncover a gargantuan mummy buried in the sands, which abruptly comes to life. It searches the pyramids before uncovering a space craft in the sands and departing. Part of an interstellar missing persons bureau, it was seeking lost space travelers. 6 pages.