Let Sleeping Giants Get Their Own Alarm Clock

Amazing colossal men aren't a new concept from the atomic age but Sleeping Giant from Mysteries Of Unexplored Worlds #40 turns the peculiarity up to 11. Starring the satirically named Captain Adam Chase of the space patrol, the reportedly raving madman tells a space newsman about a routine assignment that sent him straight to the space loony bin. Chase was buzzing around for a new planet for humans to colonize, the first one was too poisonous, the second has kaiju frogs, the third was too hot, and the next was too cold. Chase finally finds his Goldilocks choice on Mentalla II as it looks just right, even though there is a rocky terrain that resembles a giant human shape. Adam lands to investigate the humanoid pile of pebble, and spends the night outside in his sleeping bag, only to be rudely awakened by the granite Goliath which turns out to be a large living being. Capt. Chase books out of there in his rocket just barely escaping getting turned into the giant's new action figure set, even though his return to Earth gets him locked away in a cosmic cuckoo's nest. The snarky asylum guards mock the poor dope from outside his cell telling him that the space patrol already set up a colony on that planet and nothing bad has happened...yet! The story concludes with the clear-cut twist ending where the guards hear on the radio that the latest supply ship sent to Mentalla II vanished and Chase laughing his flipping head off at the irony of it all. Space madness is a customary cliche in sci-fi comics, nevertheless you'd think that not every report of close encounters on alien worlds wouldn't automatically warrant the explorer being labeled a screwed-up spaceball. The unerring thing about the comic is that the fleshy giant with yellow undies shown on the cover doesn't match the walking mountain depicted on the inside.