Are You Sure You're From Earth?

A terrible miscalculation in size can be a real bummer when you're planning to assault another planet, and this shows in spades in Chalton's Space Adventures 41 with another Bill Molno-drawn sci-fi oddity. I Am From Earth introduces us to the Zebra People of Karas on an alien world who were planning to in attack Earth, but then they get a surprise when an Earthling representing shows up in his big rocket and it turns out that humans are at five times as big compared to Karas' striped citizens. Introducing himself as William Robb, this captain of Earth's space force picks up one of the Zebra People as if they were an action figure and puts him down giving him the pet name of Ed as he starts to go all Godzilla on Karas. They aliens send their flying saucers after him and start shooting like planes on King Kong hitting him with everything from heat rays to nuclear blasts all of which have no effect on the invulnerable human. Captain Robb picks up Ed again and demands the Zebra People surrender to which the pattern-skinned aliens wholeheartedly agree to. Their leaders send a message boy to inform Robb of their peace plans, but it's revealed that Robb is really a giant robot piloted by a Tony Stark lookalike no bigger than the other Zebra People who tells the boy to keep the secret of their similar height in order to keep the peace. The striped boy agrees, and years later the secret behind the giant robot was revealed but Earthlings and the city of Karas learned to live in peace. The giant robot got turned into monument put in the middle of the rebuilt Karas to remind the Zebra People that they were all duped into giving up. While a battle between colossal robots and flying saucers would have been epic, this 5-page Silver Age story cut out the intense Roland Emmerich action just so they could have the same old watered down "peace among worlds" schtick.