We begin with our cover-story, "The Gorilla Who Challenged the World," a six-page reprint from Strange Adventures #55 by Edmond Hamilton and Sy Barry. Dr. Jonas Mills isolates Mutaton, which increases the speed of evolution in . First he tries it out on a gorilla with amazing results, then on himself. As he mutates he realizes the potential danger in evolving a savage animal like the gorilla and creates an anti-Mutaton, but before he can use it on the gorilla, it realizes what he is planning and tricks Mills into drinking it himself.
The gorilla escapes and using a human mask begins to steal rare chemicals from sites all over the world. When he is unmasked during a robbery, the police begin searching for all gorillas in the area and end up in Dr. Mills lab, where the gorilla tells them that if they don't kill him, he will restore Dr. Mills mind to its former intelligence. He does so and is able to escape.
Next up is the conclusion of this story, "The Jungle Emperor," from Strange Adventures #56 and also by Edmond Hamilton and Sy Barry. When the gorilla uses the stolen chemicals to create vast quantities of the Mutaton he sends intelligent gorillas to the capitols of all countries demanding the submit to King Gorilla. Dr. Mills notices that when the gorilla's fly away they are running their jets too fast for anyone, even a gorilla to withstand the G's and surmises that King Gorilla dis not want to create competition and therefore is using robots for the other gorillas. Dr. Mills goes on TV ands says that he can defeat the gorilla and so King Gorilla fetches him to his hideout. Mills brought along a bottle of the antidote, but King Gorilla takes it from him and puts him in a cage. Dr. Mills creates a fire which shatters the antidote's glass container, He covers his face and when King Gorilla enters the room to put out the fire his inhales the vaporized antidote and then destroys the Mutaton so this can not happen again.
That is followed by "The Watchdogs of the Universe" a six-page reprint from Strange Adventures #62 by Otto Binder, Sid Greene and Joe Giella. A father tells his son a bedtime story of how he became a member of The Watchdogs of Space and helped save a world seemingly doomed to an ice age. In the story he received an award from the group for his quick thinking and after his son goes to sleep he pull the award out and admires it.
Last is "The Anti-Invasion Machine," another six-page3 story, this one reprinted from Strange Adventures #80 and by Gardner Fox and Carmine Infantino. When a peace-loving Plutonian lands on Earth and warns of a coming Plutonian invasion they allow him to set up his anti-invasion "sound machine" to thwart the incoming Plutonian ships. However, before he can use the machine, he dies mysteriously and no one on Earth knows how to us the machine. Luckily one man fi9gures out that the emissary and his machine were a hoax designed to keep Earth from using nuclear bombs against the Plutonians.
Edited by Julius Schwartz.
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