Tales to Astonish #22

In "I Dared to Battle the Crawling Creature! [, Part 1]," teenager Walter Carter pilots a drill-pod deep beneath the earth, uncovering a hidden tribe and a terrifying, ancient horror. With quick thinking and nerve, he lures the Crawling Creature to the surface, using the landscape to trap it—then vanishes into silence, guarding the secret of what he found.

In "I Dared to Battle the Crawling Creature, Part 2," teenager Walter Carter ventures deep beneath the earth in a drill-pod, only to uncover a hidden tribe and a monstrous, crawling entity that threatens them. With quick thinking and courage, he devises a plan to lure the creature to the surface and trap it in a narrow canyon, shielding the tribe from its wrath—all while keeping the truth buried beneath the soil.

A struggling writer acquires a secondhand typewriter that stubbornly types only one message: "Help!" followed by an address, no matter what keys he presses. Curious and unsettled, he follows the address to a crumbling intersection, where he discovers the typewriter’s former owner trapped in the wreckage of a recent, deadly crash.

Max Kole, a second-string drummer consumed by envy, turns to a local gypsy for help in outshining his bandmate—only to find his wish comes at a terrible price. When the gypsy finally casts her spell after being threatened, Max’s talent explodes, but his triumph is haunted by a chilling truth: he can never stop playing.