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Series: Tales to Astonish

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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Tales to Astonish
Issue: 5
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: September 1959
Volume: 1

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Owner: Southerncross

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TALES TO ASTONISH #5
Owner: Pawwauw Comics

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Story Title: The Things on Easter Island! - cover
Pages:1
Genre:science fiction


Story Title: I Was Trapped by the Things on Easter Island! - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:science fiction
Synopsis: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.


Story Title: The Inventor - text story
Pages:2
Letters:typeset
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Ned Carter; Mr. Jonas
Synopsis: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.


Story Title: I Am the Menace from Outer Space! - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Krag
Synopsis:An alien race sends a scout to Earth prior to their invasion, but when he investigates a mysterious space ship he is trapped and crushed, as the ship is actually a living being. The aliens believe he has been captured and call off the invasion.


Story Title: I Can See Tomorrow! - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Willy Adams
Synopsis:A burglar steals a golden camera that takes pictures of tomorrow. He uses it to get information on the stock market and horse races, but when he photographs himself he realizes that he has no tomorrow.


Story Title: I Found the Nightmare Note - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Joe Baxter; Spencer Worthington
Synopsis:An assistant at a record store devises a sound that will make a person unconscious, planning to use it to rob a wealthy customer. When the man doesn't pass out the crook thinks he failed, not knowing that the customer was deaf, and only bought records for his wife.


Story Title: I Landed on the Forbidden Planet! - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Tim Korey
Synopsis: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 universe is too tiny for the inhabitants of Earth to see it.


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