Tales to Astonish #6
In "I Saw the Invasion of the Stone Men," a man’s evening at the museum takes a bizarre turn when a moment of laughter at a painting of Pan leads to an unsettling encounter with the museum guard—only to have his date notice something deeply wrong when he returns to the street. Written by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber, with Jack Kirby’s dynamic art and Christopher Rule’s sharp inks, this eerie tale from 1959 builds quiet dread with a single, chilling detail: the guard’s hooves. The cover by Jack Kirby and George Klein captures the story’s unsettling mood perfectly.
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A man with his date at the museum laughs at the painting of Pan. The museum guard chastises him for it, and he leaves. Later, his date sees him on the street and asks him why his hair has fallen out. He doesn't tell her that, as they were leaving the museum, he looked back at the guard walking down the hall and saw that the man had cloven hooves.
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