Item Biography
"I Was Captured by the Creature from Krogarr!"
Penciled by Jack Kirby & inked by Dick Ayers.
Reprints Tales to Astonish (Vol 1) #25.
Joe Hanson was lazy, and it drove his wife mad. He wouldn't work or pay the bills, but one day as he watches TV, an alien scientist cuts into the signal and gives Joe directions for rewiring his TV set to turn it into a dimensional rift. The alien comes through, seizes Joe, and returns home to prove his new technology. The alien is of a cruel, conquering race, and Joe knows his goose is cooked, until he fades away and returns to Earth. There he finds his wife scolding him because the electricity was cut off for non-payment, saving Joe's life.
7 pages.
"Midnight on Haunted Hill"
Penciled by Jack Kirby & inked by Sol Brodsky.
Reprinted from Tales to Astonish (Vol 1) #28.
Young Billy likes to lose himself in fantasy comics, but his dad makes him hunt down his dog, who has gone missing in the rain. He finds his dog in a field, just in time to witness an alien space ship drop off a prisoner for a one-year sentence of exile. He can't make out the figure, but runs to tell his parents. When they return to check his story, there is a gnarled old tree on the spot, nothing else. The boy becomes a joke, yet the spot has notoriety for tourists, who, one year later, are privileged to see the ship return, and the tree board it, its sentence served.
6 pages.
"Where Walks the Werewolf"
Written by Len Wein, penciled & inked by Reed Crandall.
A doctor means to help his friend, an artist who is going blind. They kill a wild wolf in order to harvest its eye lenses for the artist, but soon after the operation, it is apparent that the wolf they had caught was a werewolf, and now the artist has the heart of the beast, and seeks his revenge.
7 pages.
Cover art by Jack Kirby & Marie Severin.