Strange Tales #68
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"Last Warning—Evacuate Earth!" is a standout tale from Strange Tales #68 (1959), featuring a haunting descent into Earth’s deepest chasm, where a forgotten race of banished elves awaits. Written and illustrated with striking precision by Steve Ditko—his signature style evident in both pencils and inks, with Stan Goldberg’s colors and Artie Simek’s lettering adding to the eerie atmosphere—this story blends mythic dread with a moral crossroads. The cover, by Jack Kirby and Christopher Rule, captures the moment of revelation with dynamic flair, setting the stage for a tale that lingers long after the final page.
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A man descends in a bathysphere into a pit so deep that he is surprised to find a waterless cavern beneath it occupied by elves banished long ago by a wizard. They stole the magic ball that kept Atlantis safe from the waves and so a sorcerer cast a spell that would send them to the deepest pit in the Earth. They offer to make the man ruler of humans if he returns them to the surface would. He agrees, but then has second thoughts about unleashing their mischief upon unsuspecting humanity and destroys the bathysphere, accepting underground exile in the process.
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