Astonishing #54

(October 1956)

The Old Man's Secret! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Sid Greene

Inks:

Sid Greene

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

K263

Content Information

Genre:

Fantasy

Synopsis:

A man crosses the mountains of Tibet in order to gain the secret of immortality. He meets a young man and an old man and convinces the young man to let him take the old man back to civilization with him in order to analyze his body chemistry. When he gets back, his friend, whom has met the couple before, tells him that he brought back the wrong man. He brought back the immortal man's son.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #16 (April 1975) [-1 page]

Indexer Notes

John Giunta credit changed based on information from www.atlastales.com. [Mike Nielsen 3/2010].

Credit information from www.atlastales.com.

Nightmare at Noon! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Angelo Torres

Inks:

Angelo Torres

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

K223

Content Information

Genre:

fantasy

Synopsis:

When a woman threatens to leave a man unless he sells his island for cash, he has a vision of a woman being threatened by pirates. He defeats the pirates, and as a reward she gives him a ring and a promise to return someday as the vision fades. When he comes to he finds he still has the ring and the client the real estate broker brings in to show the island is the spitting image of the woman from his vision.

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• in Worlds Unknown (Marvel, 1973 series) #1 (May 1973)

Man with Wings! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bob Forgione

Inks:

Jack Abel

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

K-208

Content Information

Genre:

fantasy

Synopsis:

Leonardo Da Vinci has nightmares about being able to fly.

Indexer Notes

Credit information from www.atlastales.com.

No Trespassing! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Hy Fleishman

Inks:

Hy Fleishman

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

K211

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Synopsis:

When a rich man finds a beam of light shining on his property with healing properties, he fences it off and charges five thousand dollars for access. The beam turns out to be an alien weapon test and, when increased to full power, wipes out the man's estate reducing him to poverty.

Indexer Notes

Credit information from www.atlastales.com.

Discovery (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Marie Severin

Inks:

Marie Sevein

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

K-479

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

Chauncey; Zeke; Muscles Magee

Synopsis:

A scrawny man is given a magic candy bar that confers great strength, but he discovers that he already posesses more strength than he suspects.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #67 (February 1959)
• in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #86 (July 1961)
• in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #83 (August 1962)
• in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #105 (February 1963)
• in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #42 (June 1963)
• in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #23 (?)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration. Joe Maneely credit changed based on information from www.atlastales.com. [Mike Nielsen 3/2010]

The World of Flame! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Charles F. Miller

Inks:

Charles F. Miller

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

K231

Content Information

Genre:

Science Fiction

Synopsis:

A giant wave tosses a ship up to the sun.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Amazing Adventures (Marvel, 1970 series) #26 (September 1974)
• in L' Uomo Ragno [Collana Super-Eroi] (Editoriale Corno, 1970 series) #187 (30 Giugno 1977)

When the Walls Close In! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bob Brown ?

Inks:

Bob Brown ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

K222

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Synopsis:

An escaped war criminal feels claustrophobia until his guilt makes him confess.

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• in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #9 (April 1975)

Indexer Notes

Credit information from www.atlastales.com.