Tales to Astonish
#43
[No Price]
(May 1963)
Marvel,
1959 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- [0.12 USD]
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Vista Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [under character box]
- Printer
- The Eastern Color Printing Co., Waterbury, Conn.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
Printed without cover price and without cover month, perhaps accidentally. Distribution could have been regional, but indicia indicates United Kingdom distribution and therefore on-sale date would be in-determinant. Price is from indicia.
This issue is a variant of Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #43. There exist further variants:
This issue is a variant of Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #43. There exist further variants:
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The Mad Master of Time!
Ant-Man / comic story / 13 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (credited) (plot); Larry Lieber (credited) (script)
- Pencils
- Don Heck (credited)
- Inks
- Don Heck (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ray Holloway (credited)
- Job Number
- X-125
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Thousands of footsteps tread daily upon the sidewalks of Center City...
- Feature Logo
The Astonishing Ant-Man- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; Time Master [Elias Weems] (introduction, origin); Tommy Weems
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- A scientist forced to retire makes a device to artificially age others and holds the city hostage. Ant-Man can't stop him, but when he accidentally ages his own grandson he repents and reverses the damage.
- Reprints
-
in Der Eiserne (BSV - Williams, 1975 series) #12 -
in HIP Classics (Classics/Williams, 1969 series) #19164 (1971) - in Hit Comics Die Spinne (BSV - Williams, 1971 series) #226
- in Der Eiserne (BSV - Williams, 1975 series) #11 ([August 1976])
-
in Hulk Comic (Marvel UK, 1979 series) #16 (13 June 1979) [Extensively edited to bring the story length down to 2 pages. Prints pages 1-3; page 4, panels 2-5], #17 ([27] June 1979) [Extensively edited to bring the story length down to 2 pages. Prints page 4, panels 1 & 7; pages 5-7], #18 (July 4 1979) [Extensively edited to bring the story length down to 2 pages. Prints pages 8-9; page 10, panels 1-5], #19 (11 July 1979) [Extensively edited to bring the story length down to 2 pages. Prints page 10, panel 6; page 11; page 12, panels 2-7; page 13] -
in Captain America (Arédit-Artima, 1979 series) #17 - Bombes sur l'Amérique (mai 1982) -
in Essential Ant-Man (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (February 2002) [black and white] - in Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([March] 2006)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man (Marvel, 2013 series) #1 ([December] 2013)
-
in Marvel Gold. El Hombre Hormiga: ¡El Hombre en el Hormiguero! (Panini España, 2015 series) (Junio 2015) - in Ant-Man / Giant-Man Epic Collection (Marvel, 2015 series) #1 - The Man in the Ant Hill (2015)
- in Ant-Man: Ant-iversary (Marvel, 2023 series) ([January] 2023)
- in Ant-Man Fourmi-versaire (Panini France, 2023 series) (février 2023)
-
- Keywords
- Center City
Indexer Notes
The Time Master never appears again, Ant-Man still operates in "Center City".
Lady Luck
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- [G-377]
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Lester counted up all his cards and gave the number to the scorekeeper.
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Lester Ford; Marie Ford; Lady Luck
- Synopsis
- A businessman doesn’t believe in luck, but several beneficial encounters with an old lady change his mind.
- Reprints
- from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #136 (July 1955)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
Frankie's Fast Ball!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (credited) (plot); Larry Lieber (credited) (script)
- Pencils
- Larry Lieber (credited)
- Inks
- Sol Brodsky (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Frankie Jones could throw the fastest ball in the world!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Frankie Jones; Mr. Jones; Mrs. Jones
- Synopsis
- A boy gains extraordinary physical and mental abilities due to his parents' exposure to radiation. He wants to play baseball, but his fastball punches a hole in a tree and would damage a catcher.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #36 (1964 ?)
- in Hit Comics Die Spinne (BSV - Williams, 1971 series) #233
-
in L'Étonnant Spider-Man (Editions Héritage, 1969 series) #14 (septembre 1972) - in Conan le Barbare (Arédit-Artima, 1979 series) #10 - La secte du serpent ([octobre] 1981)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #4 ([January] 2012)
-
Indexer Notes
This is a retelling of "The Rookie" from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #131 (February 1955). The idea of radiation granting super-powers to unborn children was a major part of early X-Men stories.
My Fatal Mistake!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed as
Stan Lee [early- to mid-career]) - Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. DITKO)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. DITKO)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-818
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I am the only human on Earth ever to defeat the mighty Cosmo...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Yates; Cosmo
- Synopsis
- A man is bitter because he has been replaced by a computer and must take a job servicing it. It is ensconced in an air-tight clean room with a door that is opened after fifteen minutes allotted for servicing purposes. When the man enters the room, he gets the idea to sabotage the machine so that it will make mistakes and he can get his old job back, but he damages the circuits that allow the machine to open the door after the fifteen minutes of oxygen are used up.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #36 (1964 ?)
- in Hit Comics Die fantastischen Vier (BSV - Williams, 1970 series) #234
- in De Vier Verdedigers Classics (Classics/Williams, 1971 series) #55 (1972)
- in Capitaine America (Editions Héritage, 1970 series) #13 ([Septembre 1972])
- in L'Incroyable Hulk (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #42 ([janvier 1975]) [N&B [B&W]]
- in Thor (Arédit-Artima, 1977 series) #17 (janvier 1982) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #4 ([January] 2012)
- in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #2 (2019)
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Indexer Notes
Per Cory Sedlmeier on the Marvel Masterworks Message Board, "TTA #43's 'My Fatal Mistake!' doesn't have a job number listed, but a little research makes me feel comfortable saying that it was probably V-818."
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