Amazing Stories of Suspense #223
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "High Level Visitor," Jack Kirby delivers a striking tale of alien invasion and unlikely diplomacy, set on a remote Pacific island where a tribal chief uncovers a hidden extraterrestrial threat beneath a volcano. With Kirby’s bold storytelling and Wally Wood’s dynamic inks, the story unfolds with a quiet tension as the chief makes a desperate, calculated choice—selling his island to the U.S. for nuclear tests to destroy the invaders. Bill Fraccio’s cover, inked by Dick Giordano, captures the story’s eerie, high-stakes atmosphere in a single, haunting image.
In "The Creatures in the Volcano," a Pacific island chief stumbles upon a secret beneath the volcano—aliens preparing to take over Earth. Fearing his people won’t believe him, he makes a desperate deal with the U.S. to allow nuclear tests on his island, unaware of the full cost of his choice.
In "The Prison Planet!" from *Amazing Stories of Suspense* #223, Earth—once a penal colony for Mars—has evolved into a self-sustaining world where its people have forgotten their origins, while Mars, their mother planet, has become a utopia only to fall victim to an alien invasion. The story unfolds across two worlds in stark contrast, tracing the fate of a civilization that never knew it was exiled.
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