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Tales to Astonish Vol 1 6

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They come from the depths of the Earth... where the pressures are unbelievably heavy! Their atmosphere is made up of solid rock and they walk through it like we walk through air!!

—Professor George Ailen

Appearing in "I Saw the Invasion of the Stone Men"

Featured Characters:

  • Professor George Ailen

Antagonists:

  • Stone Men (First appearance)
    • Numerous unnamed stone men

Other Characters:

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Synopsis for "I Saw the Invasion of the Stone Men"

Two stone men rise from beneath the streets of New York city and cause a panic. A geologist who has warned people for years that life exists deep underground is taken for a traitor who is in league with the monsters by an angry mob. The scientist denies that he is in league with them, and since the creatures menace no one, he asks the army to leave them alone. Eventually the stone men retreat back below the surface, but the military are worried they will return in greater numbers. The geologist has realized that they will not return because they can see nothing on the surface and cannot breathe due to their having evolved in the high density of the Earth's crust and they were merely exploring.

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Appearing in "Patent Pending"

Reprint of the 3rd story from
Mystic #47

Synopsis for "Patent Pending"

Reprint of the 3rd story from
Mystic #47
A text story about a teenager inventing a mechanical potato peeler, but a supernatural figure stops him to preserve the culture of hand-peeling potatoes in kitchens.

Appearing in "I Was the Man Under Glass!"

Featured Characters:

  • Darius Cartwright (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)

Supporting Characters:

  • Galactic Empire
    • Numerous unnamed members

Other Characters:

  • Cartwright Rocket Ships, Inc. (Main story and flashback)
    • John Cartwright (Only in flashback)
  • Numerous unnamed Betalgeuseans

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Synopsis for "I Was the Man Under Glass!"

Darius Cartwright is a egotistic miser who believes to be above everyone else and so wishes to control an entire world which happens when given governorship of Betelgeuse II, a planet with an atmosphere without oxygen. Darius becomes a tyrant, cruelly ruling the amenable natives and isolating himself in a palace inside a glass dome where oxygen is pumped into for him to live comfortably. He indoctrinates the natives never to enter the dome, but this behavior comes as a curse when the oxygen system fails. Unable to fix it himself, Darius fails to persuade the natives to break his golden rule to come to his aid, so he contemplates on his failings as he resigns himself to die by suffocation.

Appearing in "I Laughed at the Great God, Pan!"

Featured Characters:

  • Norman

Supporting Characters:

  • Diane

Antagonists:

  • Pan (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)

Other Characters:

  • Numerous unnamed Olympians (Only in flashback)
  • Numerous unnamed Titans
  • Numerous unnamed Greek soldiers
  • Numerous unnamed Persian soldiers

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Synopsis for "I Laughed at the Great God, Pan!"

A man with his date at the museum laughs at the painting of Pan. The museum guard chastises him for it, and he leaves. Later, his date sees him on the street and asks him why his hair has fallen out. He doesn't tell her that, as they were leaving the museum, he looked back at the guard walking down the hall and saw that the man had cloven hooves.

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Appearing in "I Became a... Human Bomb!"

Featured Characters:

  • Unnamed Criminal

Other Characters:

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Items:

  • Guided Missile

Synopsis for "I Became a... Human Bomb!"

A criminal tries to steal a new guided missile to set a ransom for it, but after boarding the craft he discovers it's completely automatic with no controls inside.

Appearing in "I Was a Prisoner of the Living Statues!"

Featured Characters:

  • Kisumu

Supporting Characters:

  • Unidentified African Tribe
    • Ngami
    • Numerous unnamed members

Antagonists:

  • Numerous unnamed aliens

Other Characters:

  • Unnamed Exporter (Mentioned)

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Synopsis for "I Was a Prisoner of the Living Statues!"

A evil race of aliens invade a African tribe whose wooden statues resemble their own warriors, they force the tribe chief into replacing the statues with the aliens so to create a silent invasion after they are sold all over the world. Against his fellows wishes the chief complies but when the aliens are unable to contact their hidden force they cancel the attack and flee, the chief them explains that all the disguised aliens were covered with varnish before being sold and so are now paralyzed forever.

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