Tales of the Unexpected #95 is an issue of the series Tales of the Unexpected (Volume 1) with a cover date of June, 1966. It was published on April 19, 1966.
Synopsis for "The Secret of Chameleo-Man"
A man awakens dressed in a strange suit with no memory of his identity. He keeps hearing an announcers voice reverberating out of nowhere referring to him as Chameleo-Man. He battles an aquatic like creature that resembles a goldfish and then transforms into a purple tentacle creature to rescue a spaceship that seems stuck between two cliffs. The announcers voice then mentions that Chameleo man is off to another world as he feels a change coming on. He is then transported to an arena where he finds himself in a shape of a warrior dinosaur battling a three headed creature. He defeats the creature and gets transported to other planets where he takes the form of a sea turtle, a hawk and a giant lobster while performing various rescue missions. He finally returns back to earth where he assumes his human form and rescues the planet from invading aliens by crashing a temple on top of them. He decides to follow the sound of the voice that he has been hearing which leads him to a television studio. He finds two producers there working on an animated character tv show using an unusual electrical camera. One of the men remarks that when he narrates the story of Chameleo man, he feels that the character somehow comes alive. The two men decide to retire for the night and switch off the camera. As they do so, Chameleo man starts to fade and disappear. He then realizes that he was just a figment of the directors imagination and he never really existed.
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Synopsis for "The Blackout Beast"
A curator at a museum is confronted by his fiancée. She accuses him of having no emotion, he is a loner with no friends. The woman insists on returning her engagement ring back to him. Jeff Wallace admits that friends only want you then they have need of something and that he is better off without them. As the couple argues, the lights in the museum suddenly go out. They then witness the statue of a darkness idol as it comes to life and crashes out through the museum window. The couple pursues the dark monster as it wrecks havoc on the city. The creature seems immune to bullets but they notice that it is sensitive to light. Wallace corners the creature in the tunnels of a subway and immerses it with a bright spotlight. The creature fades and things return back to normal. Wallace declares that he himself has been living in a sort of darkness. He noticed how people were helping each other during the crises and has a new outlook on humanity. The woman then asks Wallace to slip the engagement ring back on her finger so she can see it sparkle in the light.
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Synopsis for "I Was a Prisoner of Death"
A man named Webster finds a vial in a recently excavated tomb in Egypt. The vial has an inscription which indicates that it might grant the user immortality but that it also comes with a curse. As Victor Webster clutches the vial, a green gaseous mass enters the room unseen by human eyes. The clouds envelops the vial as Victor Webster drinks the contents. He feels no different but he then places his hand over a flame and feels no pain. Webster then goes outside and witnesses a girder collapse. He rushes in to rescue a worker as debris falls on top of him harmlessly. He shields the worker as they walk to safety. As a crowd gathers, Webster notices a strange character dressed in a green robe but pays him no special attention. He then boards an airplane but during the trip it goes down in flames and crashes. Webster does his best to help rescue as many of the passengers as possible since he is totally unharmed. As the plane blows up he notices the strange character in green once again but he quickly disappears. The next situation finds Webster rescuing a man as he is about to be carried away down a waterfall. Webster protects the victim as they fall down into the rocks and the green figure appears once again. The figure upset because Webster has been helping victims cheat death and he cannot claim them. Webster realizes that he is speaking to death himself but he feels confident that he cannot be harmed since he is immortal. The figure then shackles Webster with a bolt like strap making him a prisoner of death. As they walk through the crowds, people start to drop and collapse into a coma. Death is delighted because he will soon claim them all. Webster then realizes that he himself is casting this spell over everyone making them fair game for death. He reasons that this must be the curse referred to by the vial he drank. Death had been following him all along. He then wishes that he could be mortal again and Death starts to disappear. Apparently the green gaseous cloud had heard Websters wish and exited his body. Everyone then starts to recover from their coma and Webster returns to his normal self. The green cloud then leaves in search of its next host.
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