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Synopsis

Four men escape a plane crash unharmed, decide they are living on borrowed time and vow to use it challenging the unknown. In their first case, they’re asked to open the four chambers of an ancient box. The chambers release: a stone giant that Prof. destroys by pure thought, a sun that freezes by consuming nearby heat that Red traps in a vacuum chamber, and a device that snarls things in plastic ribbons but is controlled by a dial on its container. Morelian opens the fourth and removes a ring, claiming the box says it contains immortality. He is wrong: immortality was in the box, not the ring.

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• Showcase #1
• Showcase #2
• Showcase #3
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Credits

Script

Paul Kupperberg, Jack Schiff, Arnold Drake, Robert Kanigher, John Broome, Jerry Coleman, Otto Binder, Dave Wood, Gardner Fox

Pencils

John Prentice, Win Mortimer, Carmine Infantino, Jack Kirby, Al Plastino, Ruben Moreira, Gil Kane, Mike Sekowsky, Irv Novick, Russ Heath, Wayne Boring, Bob Brown

Inks

John Prentice, Win Mortimer, Joe Kubert, Jack Kirby, Al Plastino, Bruno Premiani, Frank Giacoia, Joe Giella, Gil Kane, Irv Novick, Ruben Moreira, Russ Heath, Stan Kaye, Bob Brown

Colours

Tom McCraw

Letters

Ben Oda

Associate editor, collected edition

Robert Greenberger, Paul Kupperberg, Neal Pozner

Black fill-ins

Rosalind Kirby

Co-plot, uncredited

Edmond Hamilton

Editor, collected edition

Bob Kahan

Plot, script

Jack Kirby

Script rewrite

Dave Wood