Astounding Stories #173
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Sleeping Giant," Hobbs returns from vacation with a mysterious silence that unsettles his coworkers—this time, his tall tales aren’t just disbelief, they’re a cover for something far stranger. A 1984 Alan Class comic, the story unfolds with quiet unease, illustrated in bold, expressive lines by Emil Gershwin, whose art brings a grounded tension to a tale of alien encounters and unspoken secrets. The cover, a striking collaboration by Dick Giordano, captures the eerie stillness of a man who’s seen too much.
Jo, a longtime office fixture known for spinning tall tales about his vacations, returns from a trip with a quiet intensity that unsettles his coworkers. This year, the story he won’t tell is the one that changed everything—his sudden, unexplained disappearance and return, leaving only silence in his wake.
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