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    Tales to Astonish #5

    Tales to Astonish » Tales to Astonish #5 - I Was Trapped By The Things On Easter Island! released by Marvel on September 1959.

    An anthology of stories involving alien invasions and thieves using science fiction gadgets.

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    I Was Trapped By The Things On Easter Island! last edited by Vlad3008 on 11/27/22 01:23AM View full history

    A pilot crash-lands on an island where everything is completely backwards…

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    • I Was Trapped By The Things On Easter Island! - (unknown) When a pilot crash lands on Easter Island he learns that the statues there are actually aliens!
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    • I Am the Menace from Outer Space! - (unknown) an alien named Krag is chosen to scout Earth for a possible invasion.
    • I Can See Tomorrow! - (unknown) a thief steals a camera that can photograph the future!
    • I Found the Nightmare Note - (Williamson) a hi-fi salesman discovers a note that can render listeners unconscious.
    • I Landed On The Forbidden Planet - (Ditko) an explorer lands on a planet that has been mandated forbidden.
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    Exemplary Issue of Tales to Astonish 0

    A Marvel classic from the days before superheroes predominated! Tales to Astonish #5 is a fun package. It has some of the best art of the early issues of the comic, and the stories hold up pretty well more than a half century later.It's only recently been discovered that the statues of giant heads on Easter Island actually do have bodies beneath the ground. The writers had no way of knowing this back in 1959, which makes the story 'I Was Trapped by the Things on Easter Island!' all the more enjo...

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