Sinister Tales #128
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "I Was Trapped By Titano the Monster That Time Forgot!", Stan Lee and Steve Ditko deliver a clever twist on alien invasion tropes, where 150 Martian saucers descend on Earth, seemingly inert—until their true nature is revealed in a mind-bending revelation. The story unfolds through a series of eerie, meticulously drawn sequences, with Jack Kirby’s dynamic cover setting the tone for a tale where perception and reality blur.
In "I Was Trapped By Titano the Monster That Time Forgot!" from Sinister Tales #128, Commander Hartnell leads a desperate mission to stop the colossal, ancient crab known as Titano, whose rampage across the South Pacific has drawn military attention. With cunning and precision, Hartnell outmaneuvers the beast, driving it into the Arctic's frozen depths where he traps it between towering glaciers.
In "Only I Know When the World Will End!!!", a man claiming to be an alien from another world warns that a planet will soon collide with Earth—only to be dismissed as mad. After escaping custody, he retreats to a cave, convinced his own mind has broken, unaware that astronomers are tracking the very collision he predicted.
In "I Know the Secret of the Flying Saucer!" from Sinister Tales #128, fifteen Martian saucers descend silently upon Earth, their purpose unknown. When scientists and soldiers finally enter the craft after they open their ports, they find no crew—only the unsettling truth that the saucers themselves are the Martians, quietly absorbing human knowledge.
In "A Phantom In the Sky!" from Sinister Tales #128, a Nazi pilot stumbles through a dimensional rift in pursuit of a mysterious dirigible, only to return to his war-torn Germany decades older than when he left—his mission complete, but his world irrevocably changed.
In "Robot on the Rampage!" from Sinister Tales #128 (1974), a lighthouse keeper’s experimental robot turns hostile, forcing the man to outwit it by locking it outside—only to find that the salty sea air quickly corrodes the machine, turning its threat to dust in hours. The story’s quiet tension and clever twist on mechanical rebellion make for a sharp, self-contained sci-fi tale.
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↩ Reprints Marvel Tales #151 (1956), Tales to Astonish #10 (1960), Tales of Suspense #11 (1960), Tales to Astonish #18 (1961)
Reprinted in Amazing Stories of Suspense #135 (1974)
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