XOWComics.com

Content Items (15 total)

The Aliens Who Captured Earth!

Illustration on Cover, Front

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

Tales of Suspense #3 published May 1959
was The Aliens Who Captured Earth! [Illustration on Cover, Front]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

[untitled]

Blank Page(s) on Interior Page(s)

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

The Aliens Who Conquered Earth

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Darius Christopher

First Line: The snow glistens brightly on this clear November day in the year 2058 as...

Synopsis: Alien invaders panic Earth with powerful distintegrating weapons, but when the president of Earth confronts them he is immune to their rays because of his own faith.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: T-196

Notes: Narrated in the second person.

I Found the Perfect Hiding Place in Space!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Zachariah Stubbs

First Line: Oh, if only I hadn't done it!

Synopsis: A miser in the future hides his money on a remote asteroid. He carefully maps the location of the money on the asteroid, but realizes once he returns to Earth that he cannot find the asteroid that he landed on.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Job Number: T-212

I Escaped to the Stars

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Harry Wolf

First Line: My name is Harry Wolf and right now, back on Earth, everybody's talking about me!

Synopsis: A burglar in the 31st century is sentenced to lifetime solitary confinement. He is taken to a spaceport, where he escapes in an automated rocket that will never return to Earth, thinking that he has evaded the sentence and might one day land on another planet. This was the plan all along, since this enlightened society leaves even the worst criminals hope.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: T-211

I Spent Eternity in a Deep Freeze!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Joe Sykes; Martha Sykes

First Line: It was midnight!

Synopsis: A petty criminal volunteers to be sent in deep freeze to the end of the universe and back. When he awakens he finds that he has looped through space and time and it now in an alternate dimension when he can not be seen or heard.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Job Number: T-141

My Forbidden Paintings!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Ashley Crane

First Line: The old man warned me!

Synopsis: A painter buys a magic brush with the power to make three paintings become real. He makes himself handsome and a famous painter. Finally he makes himself dictator of a European country, but one of his paintings inspires the people to revolt and depose him, leaving him imprisoned.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: T-249

Beware! Of the Ghastly Glass!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Bruno

First Line: Twilight! Two shadowy figures prowl the streets, searching, seeking...

Synopsis: A man kills to gain possession of a magic crystal that grants him four wishes, but even his carefully worded wishes backfire, stranding him on the Moon.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-54

Notes: Narrated in the third person. Although the story is unsigned Nick Caputo suspects that Stan Lee may be the author, as examined in his blog:

http://nick-caputo.blogspot.com/2011/11/who-authored-ditko.html

Strange Mission

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Alfred Pook; Harold; Dr. Smith

Synopsis: A man becomes confused over directions to the dentist and as a result accidentally pilots an expedition to claim a new planet.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: K-440

I Found the Nightmare Note

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Joe Baxter; Spencer Worthington

First Line: My name is Joe Baxter... and I was the assistant to the owner of a...

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.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Job Number: T-334

Notes: Story is pages 21-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).

I Landed on the Forbidden Planet!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Tim Korey

First Line: In the early 21st century, for some unknown reason, a planet just outside our...

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.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: T-339

I Am the Victim of the Sorcerer!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Joe

First Line: You can never escape me!

Synopsis: A bedraggled man wanders through a misty night, unsure of his identity. He is finally forced to return to his prison in a painting, where he has been trapped since betraying a sorcerer.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-31

I Lived a Ghost Story!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy, horror

Character(s): Mr. Howard; John Lang

First Line: You say you don't believe in ghosts?

Synopsis: A real estate agent tries to dissuade a man from buying a haunted house, but he insists on spending a night there. He is chased from the house by spirits and is scared off, which relieves the agent, since he is one of the ghosts, and wouldn't want to have to share their home.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Job Number: T-477

[untitled]

Blank Page(s) on Interior Page(s)

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Companion Comics in This Series

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: House ad for the Alan Class range of comics. Back cover.