Tales to Astonish Vol 1 5

Alternate Covers: Vintage Tales to Astonish Vol 1 #5 Published September, 1959 Editor-in-Chief Stan Lee Cover Artist Jack Kirby Christopher Rule Stan Goldberg Artie Simek "I Was Trapped by the Things on Easter Island!" Writer Stan Lee Penciler Jack Kirby Inker Christopher Rule "I Am the Menace from Outer Space!" Penciler Joe Sinnott "I Can See Tomorrow!" Penciler Don Heck "I Found the Nightmare Note" Penciler Al Williamson "I Landed on the Forbidden Planet!" Penciler Steve Ditko Inker Steve Ditko Previous Issue Next Issue Tales to Astonish #4 Tales to Astonish #6

Appearing in "I Was Trapped by the Things on Easter Island!"

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• Lithodia Rexians

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Synopsis for "I Was Trapped by the Things on Easter Island!"

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.

Appearing in "I Am the Menace from Outer Space!"

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Synopsis for "I Am the Menace from Outer Space!"

An alien scout is sent to earth to grab information for a invasion, in route he sees a better crafted spaceship and decides to take it for his people, however the "ship" is revealed as a living creature who took that shape to lure it's pray to her.

Appearing in "I Can See Tomorrow!"

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Synopsis for "I Can See Tomorrow!"

Thief Willy Adams steals a magic camera with the power to show the future, he profits from it by betting in horse races but when Willy photographs himself he finds there might be no tomorrow for him

Appearing in "I Found the Nightmare Note"

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Synopsis for "I Found the Nightmare Note"

A criminal invents a special sound wave device to make a man unconscious in order to steal people but when he tests it on a elderly man and fails he decides to be honest from now on while unaware his target is deaf

Appearing in "I Landed on the Forbidden Planet!"

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Synopsis for "I Landed on the Forbidden Planet!"

This is pretty much the same story as "The Changling" in Tales of Suspense #23 with the difference here the traveler's home planet is close to Earth rather than far off.

Notes

• "I Was Trapped By the Things on Easter Island!" reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell #24

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