The Moral Figures of the Bear
 
Each character-monster is a component of the human mind, showed deliberately in a vivid way in order to catch the attention. Here are the fundamental features:
 
Joseph Stefano gets on well with a Chromoite straight from "The Mice".
The Warmonger Ones:
The Hundred Days of the Dragon - O.B.I.T.
Corpus Earthling - Nightmare - The Zanti Misfits
The Invisibles - The Mice - Don' t Open Till Doomsday
ZZZZZ - Specimen: Unknown - The Special One
Demon With A Glass Hand - Keeper of the Purple Twilight
The Scientist Ones:
The Architects of Fear - Fun and Games - A Feasibility Study
The Probe
The Utopian Ones:
The Galaxy Being - The Bellero Shield - The Inheritors
 The Philosopher Ones:
The Sixth Finger - Controlled Experiment
The Humanitarian Ones:
Second Chance - Moonstone - The Inheritors
The Fugitive Ones:
The Galaxy Being - The Zanti Misfits - The Bellero Shield
Don't Open Till Doomsday - Moonstone
The Machiavellian Ones:
The Architects of Fear - Nightmare - The Chameleon
The Defeatist Ones:
The Man Who Was Never Born - The Borderland
It Crawled Out of the Woodwork - Soldier
Production And Decay of Strange Particles
Demon With A Glass Hand
"Moonstone"
The Thetan from "The Architects of Fear" next to Joseph Cotten.
   
   
The Nature of the Bear
 
Each monster is a distortion of one mythical or biological element known to man:
 
Ikar from "Keeper of the Purple Twilight" enjoys reading "Famous Monsters".
The Devil Pattern:
Nightmare - Fun and Games
The Ant Pattern:
The Zanti Misfits - The Mutant
The Cerebral Viscera Pattern:
The Mice - The Guests - The Brain of Colonel Barham
The Bird Pattern:
Second Chance - The Duplicate Man
The Energy Pattern:
The Man With The Power - It Crawled Out of the Woodwork
Production and Decay of trange Particules
The Light Pattern:
The Galaxy Being - The Bellero Shield
The Hydrocephalic Pattern:
The Architects of Fear - The Sixth Finger
Keeper of the Purple Twilight
The Lava Pattern:
The Man Who Was Never Born - A Feasibility Study
The Eyeball Pattern:
O.B.I.T. - Don't Open Till Doomsday - Moonstone
The Mineral/Vegetal Pattern:
Corpus Earthling - Specimen: Unknown - Counterweight
The Bug-Eyed Monster Pattern:
The Children of Spider County - The Mutant
The Branchiae Pattern:
The Special One - The Chameleon
Keeper of the Purple Twilight
The Negative Pattern:
The Galaxy Being - The Premonition
The Bacterium Pattern:
A Feasibility Study - The Probe