Tales to Astonish #5

(September 1959)

I Was Trapped by the Things on Easter Island! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Christopher Rule

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-327

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Synopsis:

A pilot crash lands on Easter Island where he observes the statues rise out of the ground and discuss invasion plans of their home planet and the enslavement of Earthmen. He flees the pursuit of the statues and attempts to warn the proper authorities, but no one believes him. Eventually he begins to doubt his story as well, and unobserved, the statues who had been following him return to Easter island safe in the knowledge that no one would believe such an outlandish tale.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #24 (October 1973)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

Indexer Notes

Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

The Inventor (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

F-889

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Ned Carter; Mr. Jonas

Synopsis:

A disgruntled janitor's obsessive effort to create a sweeping robot costs him his job and ends in failure, but only because he sees no use for a perpetual motion machine.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #32 (June 1955)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

I Am the Menace from Outer Space! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Joe Sinnott (signed)

Inks:

Joe Sinnott (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-324

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Krag

Synopsis:

An alien race sends a scout to Earth prior to their invasion, but when he investigates a mysterious space ship he is trapped and crushed, as the ship is actually a living being. The aliens believe he has been captured and call off the invasion.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

Indexer Notes

Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

I Can See Tomorrow! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Don Heck

Inks:

Don Heck

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-330

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

Willy Adams

Synopsis:

A burglar steals a golden camera that takes pictures of tomorrow. He uses it to get information on the stock market and horse races, but when he photographs himself he realizes that he has no tomorrow.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

Indexer Notes

Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

I Found the Nightmare Note (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Al Williamson (signed)

Inks:

Al Williamson (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-334

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Joe Baxter; Spencer Worthington

Synopsis:

An assistant at a record store devises a sound that will make a person unconscious, planning to use it to rob a wealthy customer. When the man doesn't pass out the crook thinks he failed, not knowing that the customer was deaf, and only bought records for his wife.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #142 ([no date])
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #142 ([no date])

I Landed on the Forbidden Planet! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks:

Steve Ditko (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-339

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Tim Korey

Synopsis:

A space pilot visits a nearby planet, but finds that it is inhabited by giants, and so is too dangerous. He gets away, happy that his own universe is too tiny for the inhabitants of Earth to see it.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #142 ([no date])

Indexer Notes

This story is similar to "The Changeling", drawn by Jack Kirby, in Tales of Suspense #23.