Tales to Astonish #6

(November 1959)

I Saw the Invasion of the Stone Men (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks:

Steve Ditko (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-383

Content Information

Genre:

monsters

Characters:

Prof. George Ailen

Synopsis:

Stone men rise out of the ground and set off a panic. A geologist realizes that the creatures are just explorers and will return underground on their own.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (1962)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

Indexer Notes

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

Patent Pending (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

J-215

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

inventor; Joe; Timothy Braun

Synopsis:

A teenager is inventing a mechanical potato peeler, but a supernatural figure stops him to preserve the culture of hand-peeling potatoes in kitchens.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #47 (May 1956)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

I Was the Man Under Glass! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Joe Sinnott (signed)

Inks:

Joe Sinnott (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-377

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Darius Cartwright; John Cartwright

Synopsis:

An arrogant businessman becomes governor of an alien planet and lives in an oxygen-filled dome, forbidding the natives from entering. When his oxygen pump breaks he has so thoroughly frightened them that none will come to his aid, and he slowly runs out of air.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

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

I Laughed at the Great God, Pan! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Christopher Rule

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-385

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

Norman; Diane; Pan

Synopsis:

A man with his date at the museum laughs at the painting of Pan. The museum guard chastises him for it, and he leaves. Later, his date sees him on the street and asks him why his hair has fallen out. He doesn't tell her that, as they were leaving the museum, he looked back at the guard walking down the hall and saw that the man had cloven hooves.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #17 (No Date [circa 1963])
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #156 ([None Listed]) [original title: I Laughed at the Great God, Pan!]

Indexer Notes

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

I Became a...Human Bomb! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Paul Reinman (signed)

Inks:

Paul Reinman (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-386

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Synopsis:

A criminal sneaks aboard an experimental nuclear missile planning to hijack it and sell it to the Soviets, but after the rocket launches he discovers that it lacks internal control.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (1962)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

Indexer Notes

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

I Was a Prisoner of the Living Statues! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

John Forte (signed)

Inks:

John Forte (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-384

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Kisumu; Ngami

Synopsis:

Alien invaders disguise themselves as wooden statues from and African village to infiltrate the homes of the wealthy and powerful, but their plans fail because the coats of varnish added by the exporters immobilize them.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #17 (No Date [circa 1963])
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #156 ([None Listed]) [original title: I Was a Prisoner of the Living Statues!]