Tales to Astonish #5
September 1959 · 0.10 USD · 36 pages
On sale 1959-05-05
Rated Approved by the Comics Code Authority
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.
Credits
- Script
- Stan Lee, Larry Lieber
- Plot
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby, Joe Sinnott, Don Heck, Al Williamson, Steve Ditko
- Inks
- Christopher Rule, Joe Sinnott, Don Heck, Al Williamson, Steve Ditko
- Colours
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Editor
- Stan Lee
Notes
Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements (pages 2, 9, 15, 19, 25, 27, 33-36 of comic including inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover); pages of comic not numbered. All new stories are narrated in the first person. Indicia date is October 1959. On-sale date from 1959 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
Reprinted from
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