Secrets of the Unknown #100
In "Too Many Super Heroes," Jack Kirby’s bold art and Steve Ditko’s sharp inks bring to life a cosmic twist on the first human spaceflight: an exiled gaseous alien, Kragoom, plans to possess the first astronaut to reclaim Earth, only to find his host is a fraud who faked his way into the mission. Trapped in the mind of a man unraveling under the strain of space, Kragoom’s conquest begins to unravel as amnesia sets in—leaving both alien and human adrift in the void. The story’s cover, by Paul Reinman, captures the tension of that uneasy union.
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An exiled gaseous alien criminal named Kragoom waits in Earth orbit for the first human astronaut in order to enter his body and possess his mind, returning to Earth as a conqueror. However, the first astronaut turns out to be a wealthy cheat who paid a safecracker to obtain the test results from NASA's selection process and altered them so that he would be chosen as the first astronaut. He is unable to cope with space travel and develops amnesia under the stress. Kragoom, trapped in the human's mind, suffers the same fate as the spacecraft returns to Earth.
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