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We can go now! We are safe! He was not believed! Let us return to our island and wait! Whether it be one more day, or another thousand years... when we receive the signal... we must be... ready!

—Unnamed Lithodia Rexian

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

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  • Unnamed Pilot (Main story and flashback)

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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.

Tales to Astonish Vol 1 5 001

Appearing in "The Inventor"

Reprint of the 2nd story from
Uncanny Tales #32

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Synopsis for "The Inventor"

Reprint of the 2nd story from
Uncanny Tales #32
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.

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

Featured Characters:

  • Krag (First appearance)

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  • Unidentified Alien Empire
    • Unnamed Alien Leader
    • Numerous unnamed aliens

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  • Organic "Spaceship"

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  • Unidentified alien species

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  • Krag's Spaceship

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 its pray to her.

Appearing in "I Can See Tomorrow!"

Featured Characters:

  • Willy Adams

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  • Unnamed Old Man

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  • Golden Camera

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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  • Spencer Worthington

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  • Tabby (Cat)
  • Mr. Johnson
  • Martha Worthington (Mentioned)

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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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  • Bureau of Planets

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  • Tim Korey's Spaceship

Synopsis for "I Landed on the Forbidden Planet!"

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 galaxy is too tiny for the inhabitants of Earth to see it.

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Trivia

  • The letter page of Rom #41 suggests that "I Was Trapped By the Things on Easter Island!" may have depicted an early appearance of the Dire Wraiths.

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