Astonishing
#58
(February 1957)
Marvel,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1956
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- 20th Century Comic Corp.
- Brand
-
Atlas [black & white]
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Danger in the Streets!
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
-
in Misterios del Gato Negro (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1953 series) #117 -
in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #2 (1963), #133 ([circa 1973 - 1974]), #161 ([circa 1977 - 1978]), #199 ([circa 1982 - 1983])
-
Indexer Notes
Coloring credit confirmed by Goldberg.
Danger in the Streets
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Carl Wessler
- Pencils
- John Forte (signed)
- Inks
- John Forte (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Letterese (sourced)
- Job Number
- K-928
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- An atomic accident gives a researcher the ability to transmute objects into uranium.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #2 (1963), #133 ([circa 1973 - 1974]), #161 ([circa 1977 - 1978])
-
Indexer Notes
Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
The Dragon's Roar!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- L86
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- A communist general decides to make an example of defiant villagers who celebrate the new year against his orders by building a dragon float with machine gunners inside to open fire upon the revelers. When the float gets to the center of the parade another dragon appears which the communist soldiers take to be another float, but it is real and attacks and destroys them, sparing the villagers.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #62
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #1 (1963), #134 ([circa 1973 - 1974]), #167 ([circa 1978 - 1979]) [black and white]
-
The Endless Journey
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- L-039
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- When a chemist invents a serum that lets anyone will themselves to be elsewhere, it gets stolen by an escaped convict. The serum works imperfectly, however, and he finds himself bouncing from place to place without any means of permanently staying.
- Reprints
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #47
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #2 (1963)
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #193 ([circa 1983 - 1984])
-
Indexer Notes
Pete Morisi credit changed based on information from www.atlastales.com. [Mike Nielsen 3/2010]
Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
Grotesque!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- K-979
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A man threatened by a giant owl turns out to be the unintentional victim of a scientist disposing of an imperfect reducing serum.
- Reprints
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #62
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #1 (1963)
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #136 ([circa 1972 - 1973]), #204 ([circa 1982 - 1983]) [Black and white]
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Indexer Notes
Pencils credit and Job Number information from www.atlastales.com. Inks credit from Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.
The Inventor
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- J-215
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- 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
-
from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #47 (May 1956) [as "The Inventor"] - in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #23
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #1 (1963), #134 ([circa 1973 - 1974])
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #111 ([circa 1975 - 1976])
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #145 ([circa 1976 - 1977])
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #167 ([circa 1978 - 1979]) [black and white]
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #140 ([circa 1979 - 1980])
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #239 ([circa 1987 - 1988])
-
The Night of May 10th!
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- L-051
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- In the year 4956 a janitor working next to a time machine unintentionally averts some disasters in the year 1956.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #53 [Black and white.], #2 (1963), #133 ([circa 1973 - 1974]), #161 ([circa 1977 - 1978])
- in America's Greatest Comics (AC, 2002 series) #6 (2003)
-
The Secret!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- K183
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- A man gains his fortune by selling mud in beauty treatments gathered for him by mermaids.
- Reprints
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #20
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #1 (1963), #134 ([circa 1973 - 1974]), #167 ([circa 1978 - 1979]) [black and white]
-
Indexer Notes
Credit from www.atlastales.com.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Danger in the Streets!
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1.
Danger in the Streets
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2.
The Dragon's Roar!
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3.
The Endless Journey
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4.
Grotesque!
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5.
The Inventor
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6.
The Night of May 10th!
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7.
The Secret!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Bill Borre
- Nick Caputo
- Merlin Haas
- Katy Hayhurst
- Matthew Head
- Ethan Hoddes
- Michael Hoskin
- Steve Jenner
- Donald Dale Milne
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Per Sandell
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
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