Appearing in "Moomba"
Featured Characters:
- Frank
Supporting Characters:
- Balubbi Tribe
Antagonists:
- Moomba (First appearance)
- Moomba's Legion
Other Characters:
- African Tribes
- Pygmies
- United States Army
- United Nations
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Sol
- Earth
- Africa
- North America
- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- United Nations Building
- New York City
- New York
- United States of America
- Asia
- Europe
- Earth
Vehicles:
- Moomba Spacecraft
Synopsis for "Moomba"
An explorer discovers that native African wood carvings are actually an advance fifth column invasion force under the command of their leader named Moomba. Moomba gives his command to strike and all the carvings get up and begin to herd and intimidate their human owners as the wood they are crafted of is so dense that neither fire nor any other human weapons can defeat them. Using unknown means, a native African witch doctor defeats Moomba and extracts a promise from him to leave Earth along with all of his warriors.
Appearing in "The Green Man"
Spellbound #2.
Featured Characters:
- Barney
Races and Species:
Synopsis for "The Green Man"
Spellbound #2.
A former pilot can't get anyone to believe his story about the fatal radium poisoning he picked up from an alien, and so keeps spreading it.
Appearing in "Less Than Human"
Featured Characters:
- John Harris
Supporting Characters:
- Billy Harris
- Roby
- Alice Harris
Other Characters:
- Service Robots
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Unnamed Reality
- United States of America - 21st Century
- United States of America - 21st Century
Synopsis for "Less Than Human"
In the future a man rallies against the existence of robots but changes ways when one sacrifices himself to save his son's life.
Appearing in "The Voice from Nowhere"
Featured Characters:
- Astronaut (Unnamed)
Supporting Characters:
- Asteroid (Unnamed)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Fourth Galaxy (Mentioned)
- Vegas (Mentioned)
Vehicles:
- Spaceship
Synopsis for "The Voice from Nowhere"

The pilot of a rocket ship lands on what he takes to be an asteroid in order to make repairs but is perplexed when he hears a voice seemingly from nowhere pleading to him to help a lost and hungry traveler. He looks all over the "asteroid" but cannot find the source of the pleading and asks if the speaker is invisible. The voice replies no, the man can see him, why won't he help? Since the voice says that it is lost, the man asks "Where are you from?" and the voice replies "From the fourth galaxy". The pilot gestures in the direction of the named galaxy and the grateful voice utters "You've saved me human." After the man lift-offs in his rocket ship, he realizes that what he took for an asteroid was actually an alien life form as it moves away from him under its own power.
Notes
- "Moomba" is reprinted in Chamber of Chills #25 & Creatures on the Loose #11.
- "Less Than Human" is reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl #22.
- "The Voice From Nowhere" is reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl #14.
See Also
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- Comics
- 1961
- 1961, September
- Silver-Age
- Tales to Astonish Vol 1
- Stan Lee/Editor-in-Chief
- Jack Kirby/Cover Artist
- Dick Ayers/Cover Artist
- Stan Goldberg/Cover Artist
- Artie Simek/Cover Artist
- Larry Lieber/Writer
- Jack Kirby/Penciler
- Dick Ayers/Inker
- Stan Goldberg/Colourist
- Artie Simek/Letterer
- Stan Lee/Editor
- Reprints
- Spellbound Vol 1 2/Reprints
- Stan Lee/Writer
- Don Heck/Penciler
- Don Heck/Inker
- Steve Ditko/Penciler
- Steve Ditko/Inker
- Ray Holloway/Letterer
- Katu (Witch Doctor) (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Moomba (Earth-616)/Appearances
- United States Army (Earth-616)/Appearances
- United Nations (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Homo sapiens/Appearances
- Lions/Appearances
- Donkeys/Appearances
- Sol/Appearances
- Earth/Appearances
- Africa/Appearances
- North America/Appearances
- United States of America/Appearances
- New York (State)/Appearances
- New York City/Appearances
- Asia/Appearances
- Europe/Appearances
- Robots/Appearances