Manic Monday Bonus--Intergalactic Conquerors Are Stupid!!

One of the joys of being an early Marvel Universe scientist is that you can have any damn stupid theory in the world, and still get taken seriously.

Take, for example, Paul Kentworth:

Sure, right, OK.

Well, after several pages of romance, adventure and intrigue:

Uhhh, so the bad news is: theory completely wrong. No Nobel for you, Paul.

Oh, and you're going to die now...

But fortunately for Paul (and the Earth)...aliens are bone-stupid:

So, those aliens in Signs who invaded Earth even though water killed them---it wasn't just that they were stupid. All alien invaders chose to invade planets that are almost immediately poisonous to them! Someone owes M. Night Shyamalan an apology for mocking that particular plot point!!

Oh, one other thing:

Archaeologists, even when they're completely wrong, always get the girl!!

From Tales To Astonish #31 (1962)

Best Cover You've Never Seen--Tales To Astonish #8 (1960)

Pencils by Jack Kirby. Inks by Steve Ditko. Colors by Stan Goldberg.