Tales to Astonish #39
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Vengeance of the Scarlet Beetle!", a boy’s new Civil War toy soldier takes on a life of its own when an otherworldly invader from the sixth dimension attacks his home—only to vanish mysteriously after the lights go out. The next morning, the boy discovers the alien prisoner trapped in his model stockade, guarded by the very toy he’d placed there the night before. Written by Stan Lee and illustrated by Steve Ditko, with colors by Stan Goldberg and letters by Artie Simek, this eerie tale blends childhood imagination with cosmic intrusion, all framed by Jack Kirby’s dynamic cover and Dick Ayers’ sharp inks.
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A boy who enjoys toy soldiers buys a new civil war figure to place in his prisoner of war stockade. That evening, he and his father are attacked by an invader from the sixth dimension. Suddenly, the lights go out, and when they turn the lights back on, the invader has disappeared. They chalk it up to some sort of unusual shared dream, and go back to sleep. The following morning when the boy wakes up and peers into his model stockade, he sees the invader languishing in the cell guarded over by the toy soldier.
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