Tales to Astonish #31
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "When the Mummy Walks," a lone explorer stumbles upon a series of cryptic notes in an abandoned house, written in an alien tongue. The chilling text hints at a shapeshifting extraterrestrial posing as a human, using deception to prepare Earth for conquest—its identity eerily captured in a photograph of Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev. Written by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber, with art by Joe Sinnott and Paul Reinman, and a striking cover by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers, this 1962 tale blends Cold War tension with sci-fi dread in a standout issue from Marvel’s early years.
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A man looking through an abandoned house find notes in an alien language. They tell of an alien shapeshifter disguised as a human to undermine Earth before an invasion, and are accompanied by a photograph of the alien's human form, Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev.
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