Strange Tales #68

(April 1959)

Last Warning--Evacuate Earth! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Joe Sinnott (signed)

Inks:

Joe Sinnott (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-172

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Makka

Synopsis:

A gaseous alien arrives on Earth to warn people to evacuate before its race invades. It attempts to communicate with humans telepathically, but they disregard his warning as madness or a trick. Convinced that the humans' lack of fear is due to some impenetrable defence, the alien leaves and warns its people to call off the invasion.

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the second person.

Mystery Trip (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Joe Maneely

Inks:

Joe Maneely

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

K-266

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Tommy Pidgeon; Goober Jones; Rosie; Uncle Pete

Synopsis:

Tommy's uncle returns from a space journey needing to re-learn how to walk on earth instead of floating.

Reprinted:

• from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #46 (August 1956)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

The Creatures from the Bottomless Pit! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks:

Steve Ditko (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-150

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

Serge Kemplet; Kloto

Synopsis:

A man descends in a bathysphere into a pit so deep that he is surprised to find a waterless cavern beneath it occupied by elves banished long ago by a wizard. They stole the magic ball that kept Atlantis safe from the waves and so a sorcerer cast a spell that would send them to the deepest pit in the Earth. They offer to make the man ruler of humans if he returns them to the surface would. He agrees, but then has second thoughts about unleashing their mischief upon unsuspecting humanity and destroys the bathysphere, accepting underground exile in the process.

Test Pilot! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Christopher Rule

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-168

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Ralph Preston (only appearance)

Synopsis:

A rocketship test pilot in the year 2089 takes an experimental rocket on a test flight. He faces an oxygen leak caused by a collision, alien raiders and other hazards before returning safely to Earth.

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the second person.

Next Stop--Mars! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Carl Burgos

Inks:

Carl Burgos

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-176

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Shorty; Walter Lanson

Synopsis:

A short child mocked for his height takes comfort from his one friend and his love of airplanes. He is rejected by the air force because of his height, but when his friend designs an experimental rocket that can only be piloted by a short man he becomes the first man on Mars.

Trapped In Tomorrow! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

John Buscema

Inks:

John Buscema

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-171

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Willy Phelps

Synopsis:

A man spends twenty years building a time machine in order to use knowledge of the future to enrich himself. He travels to 2010 and memorizes stock market and horse race information from the newspaper archives. When he tries to return to the past, however, he finds that he accidentally left his time machine in a futuristic garbage processor, and it has been disintegrated.

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the second person. This story is retold in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #9 (May 1960) as "Time on My Hands!" drawn by John Forte.