Tales to Astonish #26

(December 1961)

Look Out!! Here Come the...Four-Armed Men! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Dick Ayers

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-402

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

"Anne Morgan"; William Cartwright; Bruno

Synopsis:

An explorer learns of an invasion of four-armed aliens. His nurse tells him his bodyguard is one of the aliens, but he realizes that she is the real alien.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #8 (March 1971)
• in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #19 (November 1975)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #3

The Weatherman (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Joe Maneely

Inks:

Joe Maneely

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

K-71

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

Willie Wimms; Hugh Wimms

Synopsis:

In the future, young boy's afternoon is nearly ruined by a scheduled rainstorm, but when he runs into the rainmaker's magical assistant, he gets a delay.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #49 (August 1956)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

He Walked Through Walls! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-403

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

Silas Birch; Charles J. Cragmore

Synopsis:

A stranger performs feats of magic, and offers anything that people might want if they sign a contract. He helps a disgruntled clerk steal money and get away, but the clerk is stranded on an island forever.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #4 (July 1971)
which is reprinted
• in L' Incroyable Hulk (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #56 ([Mars 1976])
• in L' Incroyable Hulk (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #56 ([Mars 1976]) [as "Le passe-muraille!", French translation]
• in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #22 [25 cent cover price] (May 1976)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #3

Run, Rocky, Run! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee ?

Pencils:

Bob Forgione

Inks:

Bob Forgione

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-405

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Rocky Jordan

Synopsis:

A criminal on the run plans to stow-away on the experimental rocket he reads about, but finds out too late that is an advanced miniature rocket that cannot carry a pilot.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #8 (March 1971)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #3

Indexer Notes

The last page includes an advertisement for the Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series). Retold as a Tales of the Watcher story as "Run, Roco, Run" by Stan Lee and Howard Purcell in Silver Surfer (Marvel, 1968 series) #5 (April 1969). Stan Lee given a tentative writer's credit based on his authoriship of the retelling.

Dream World (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee

Pencils:

Steve Ditko

Inks:

Steve Ditko

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-380

Content Information

Genre:

horror

Synopsis:

A man repeatedly dreams that his bed is levitating, and can’t tell if he’s dreaming or not.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #8 (March 1971)
• in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #19 (November 1975)
• in Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko (Marvel, 2005 series) #[nn] (2005)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #3

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the second person. This story is presented, according to a caption, because of positive response to "The Silent Screen" in issue #21 (July 1961), a similarly structured story. The last page carries an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko. Stan Lee adopts Cartesian philosophical skepticism regarding dreams.