Astonishing Tales #31
In "Twice Removed from Yesterday...", a man stumbles upon a crashed spaceship and deciphers a log revealing an alien’s plan to assume an Earthling’s form upon arrival. When he races to warn the Space Agency, the official he confronts—Professor Crater—draws a weapon, sparking a chilling realization. Written by Stan Lee and illustrated with moody precision by Gene Colan, with inks by Paul Reinman and colors by Janice Cohen, this eerie tale unfolds in a 25-cent comic from 1975. The cover, by Ed Hannigan and Bernie Wrightson, captures the story’s unsettling tone.
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A man finds a crashed spaceship and reads the log which shows that the alien was to take the form of an earthling when he lands. The man goes to the Space Agency to warn them but the person he talks to (Professor Crater) pulls a gun on him. The man assumes that Professor Crater must be the alien but then finds out that the log is written in another language so he must be the alien and he has helped himself to be caught.
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