A greedy businessman bullies a scientist into giving him a device that can give humans the 1,000-year lifespan of a giant redwood. He ignores the scientist's warnings and uses the ray on himself alone in his mansion, finding to his horror that the ray also renders its subject as immobile as a redwood.
Stan Lee is tentatively credited as writer on the basis of his plot credit for another version of this story in issue Journey into Mystery #103 (April 1964).
A boy looks for elves under a rock but his mother convinces him to stop believing in them and so loses out on a great fortune when the elves transmute the stones that the boy has left into gold nuggets.