Tales to Astonish Vol 1 10

Alternate Covers: Vintage Tales to Astonish Vol 1 #10 Published July, 1960 Editor-in-Chief Stan Lee Cover Artist Jack Kirby Steve Ditko Stan Goldberg Artie Simek "I Was Trapped by Titano, the Monster That Time Forgot!" Writer Stan Lee Larry Lieber Penciler Jack Kirby Inker Joe Sinnott Colourist Artie Simek Letterer Stan Goldberg "The Flying Saucer That Was" Letterer Typeset "Only I Know When the World Will End!" Writer Stan Lee Larry Lieber Penciler Don Heck Inker Don Heck Colourist Stan Goldberg Letterer Artie Simek "Something Lurks Inside!" Penciler Steve Ditko Inker Steve Ditko Colourist Stan Goldberg Letterer Artie Simek "What Was the Strange Power of Simon Trudd?" Writer Stan Lee Larry Lieber Penciler Jack Kirby Inker Christopher Rule Colourist Stan Goldberg Letterer Artie Simek Previous Issue Next Issue Tales to Astonish #9 Tales to Astonish #11

Appearing in "I Was Trapped by Titano, the Monster That Time Forgot!"

Featured Characters:

• Commander Hartnell (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

• US Navy
  • Bob
  • Dirk
  • Johnson

Antagonists:

• Titano (First appearance)

Other Characters:

• Makau

Races and Species:

• Humans

Locations:

• Atlantic Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• United States of America
  • Honolulu, Hawaii (Mentioned)
  • Alaska (Mentioned)
• Japan
• Arctic Ocean

Vehicles:

• U.S. Navy battleship
• Bathysphere
  
  

Synopsis for "I Was Trapped by Titano, the Monster That Time Forgot!"

A gigantic, mutant crab is sighted terrorizing various islands in the South Pacific. When the American military learn of this, they assign Commander Hartnell to put a stop to the crustacean threat that has become known as Titano. Hartnell's crew has several encounters with Titano and they eventually lure him to the Arctic. Hartnell maneuvers his ship so deftly that he manages to trap Titano between two giant glaciers.

Appearing in "The Flying Saucer That Was"

Featured Characters:

• George Ridley

Other Characters:

• Monroe Marks
• Dr. Willard Seldin
• Harry Landau
• Frank Ridley (Mentioned)
• Tommy Ridley (Mentioned)
• Helen Landau (Mentioned)

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Unrevealed alien race
  
  

Synopsis for "The Flying Saucer That Was"

A teacher frantically tries to convince people that he saw aliens, but it turns out that they are friendly and make him their ambassador.

Appearing in "Only I Know When the World Will End!"

Featured Characters:

• Kartu

Supporting Characters:

• Doctors
• Scientists

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Unrevealed alien race

Locations:

• North America
  • United States of America
    • Virginia
    • New York
      • New York City
• Europe
  • Russia
• Africa
• Asia
  • Hong Kong

Items:

• Telepathic Matter Transmitter
  
  

Synopsis for "Only I Know When the World Will End!"

The entire world is on a man hunt for a man named Kartu who has gone into hiding in a remote cave in Virginia. He explains he thought he was an alien who arrivd here by a Thought transmitter and that another planet is ging to crash into the earth and he goes to warn the authorities. They assume him crazy but before he can be properly confined he escapes, however a planet does crash into a different planet and they believe his story about being an alien. However by this time Kartu is beginning to believe them that he's not and has gone into deep hiding never to be found.

Appearing in "Something Lurks Inside!"

Featured Characters:

• Ted Carson

Antagonists:

• Unnamed Alien Spider Creatures

Other Characters:

• NASA

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Unrevealed alien race

Locations:

• Earth
• Planet X
  
  

Synopsis for "Something Lurks Inside!"

A space explorer lands on a planet he designates Planet X but finds it infested with vicious spider-creatures. He hurries back to his ship, but even sealed inside the smaller creatures have managed to use radio waves as a means of travel to make their way inside. The pilot flushes them to the surface of the craft, but not before one bites him, giving him an incurable fatal disease. He returns to Earth to warn them, but he cannot land because the creatures on the hull still live despite his efforts to kill them, and he cannot radio because the aliens could use the signal to arrive on Earth. He goes into orbit around Earth, refusing to respond to hailing frequencies, and this spooks the authorities so they launch a missile at him. Before the missile strikes, he jettisons his log in an escape pod. Once the people of Earth read his log, they realize he was a hero.

Appearing in "What Was the Strange Power of Simon Trudd?"

Featured Characters:

• Simon Drudd (Only appearance)^[1]

Supporting Characters:

• Drudd's Assistant

Other Characters:

• Police

Races and Species:

• Humans

Locations:

• United States of America

Items:

• De-Aging Serum
  
  

Synopsis for "What Was the Strange Power of Simon Trudd?"

Two scientists work on developing a youth serum, when they succeed, the older scientist forces the younger one into the freezer at gunpoint as he has no intention of sharing the boon with mankind. Instead, he wants to become immortal, accumulate more knowledge than anyone else and rule the world. Before the incarcerated scientist freezes to death, he manages to set off an alarm which brings the police. Since there is no sign of the old man, the police do not believe his story about a youth serum, but he knows that the formula must have worked too well taking the old man back to middle age, then young man, then child, then infant, then...?

Notes

• "I Was Trapped by Titano, the Monster That Time Forgot!" reprinted in Tower of Shadows #7
• "What Was the Strange Power of Simon Trudd?" reprinted in Fear #1
• "Only I Know When the World Will End" reprinted in Fear #1
• "Something Lurks Inside" reprinted in Fear #1

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