Tales to Astonish #4

(July 1959)

I Was a Prisoner of the Martians! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Joe Sinnott (signed)

Inks:

Joe Sinnott (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

[T-247]

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Darius Wolf; Miss Smyth; Malcolm Avery

Synopsis:

A bullying director is kidnapped by Martians using the science fiction movie he's filming as a cover. They're forced to land because of a malfunction, and explain that they'll have to let him go...if one of the actors or crew that he abused tries to rescue him.

Reprints:

• in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #21 (January 1973)
• in Capitaine America (Editions Héritage, 1970 series) #23 ([Juillet 1973])
• in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #115 (2 Settembre 1975) [as "Imprigionato dai marziani", Italian translation]
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([January] 2006)

Indexer Notes

Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

Masquerade (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

G-750

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

Tommy; Kitty Blake; Old King Cole

Synopsis:

A man with no imagination is invited to a costume party by his girlfriend, but stumbles across real fairy-tale folk instead.

Reprints:

• from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #38 (October 1955)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([January] 2006)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

My Forbidden Paintings! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Don Heck

Inks:

Don Heck

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-249

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

Ashley Crane

Synopsis:

A painter buys a magic brush with the power to make three paintings become real. He makes himself handsome and a famous painter. Finally he makes himself dictator of a European country, but one of his paintings inspires the people to revolt and depose him, leaving him imprisoned.

Reprints:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([January] 2006)
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #142 ([no date])

I Made Time Stand Still (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Editing:

?

Job Number:

T-250?

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Sydney Burr

Synopsis:

An inventor accidentally makes time stand still, leaving himself the only person able to move. He robs everyone before restarting time, but it turns out all the frozen people could see what he did and he is arrested.

Reprints:

• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #199 ([no date - circa 1978])
• in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #20 (December 1972)
• in Fantomet (Semic, 1976 series) #1/1985 (uke 1 1985) [as "Tidsmaskinen", Norwegian translation]
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([January] 2006)
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #217 ([no date])

Indexer Notes

Job number speculative based on other stories in this issue and the lack of any contemporary Marvel story with this number.

I Love a Mermaid! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Carl Burgos

Inks:

Carl Burgos

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-251

Content Information

Genre:

fantasy

Characters:

Alethea

Synopsis:

A man always drawn to the sea falls in love with a mermaid. When he dives under the water to pursue her, he realizes that he is also a merman, and his yearning for the sea was a yearning for home.

Reprints:

• in Giant-Size Chillers (Marvel, 1975 series) #2 (May 1975)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([January] 2006)

Indexer Notes

Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Art credits from Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish, formerly Bob Forgione was credited.

The Man Who Floats in Space! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks:

Steve Ditko (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-248

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Capt. Racer; Bogane

Synopsis:

Space pirates get the idea of using an empty space suit floating in space as a decoy to lure in unsuspecting freighters to be ambushed, but an intelligence operative hides in the space suit to signal the space patrol when they get close, and together they apprehend the leader of the space pirates.

Reprints:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([January] 2006)

Indexer Notes

Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.