(August 1957)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- 20th Century Comic Corp.
- Brand:
- Atlas [wireframe globe]
- Editing:
- Stan Lee
- Format:
- 4 Color; Standard Golden Age US; Newsprint; Saddle-Stitched; On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Indicia: ASTONISHING is published monthly by 20th Century Comic Corp. OFFICE OF PUBLICATION: 655 MADISON AVE., NEW YORK, N.Y. SECOND-CLASS MAIL PRIVILEGES AUTHORIZED AT NEW YORK, N.Y. Additional entry at Canton, Ohio. Copyright 1957 by 20th Century Comic Corp., 655 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. Vo1. 1, No. 63, August 1957 issue. Arthur Marchand, Circulation Director. Price 10ยข per copy. Subscription rate $1.45 for 12 issues including postage. No similarity between any of the names, characters, person, and/or institutions appearing in this magazine with those of any living or dead person or institution is intended, and any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental. Monroe Froelich, Jr., Business Manager. Printed in the U.S.A.
A Tender Tale of Love
comic story / 4 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Richard Doxsee
- Inks:
- Richard Doxsee
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- M-89
Content Information
- Synopsis:
- A man looking to marry money rents a room in a house where all the occupants are ghosts. When he falls for one of the tenants and she tells him he has a rival, he tries to murder the rival, but fails because he's already dead.
Indexer Notes
Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.
The Secret beyond Belief!
comic story / 4 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- George Woodbridge
- Inks:
- George Woodbridge
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- M-135
Content Information
- Synopsis:
- A scientist invents a rejuvenation process and a fellow scientist wants him to share it with the world, but the man refuses because the creative people who have gone through the process are no longer productive as they have all the time in the world to perfect their craft but never finish anything.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #17 (November 1975)
Indexer Notes
Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.
The Terrible Toy!
comic story / 4 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Bob Forgione
- Inks:
- Bob Forgione
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- M-124
Content Information
- Synopsis:
- People fear aliens who have appeared in the skies, but when a father seeks a lost toy for a beloved son, the humans realize that their shared bonds of compassion unite them and the aliens.
Indexer Notes
Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.
The Room That Wasn't There
comic story / 3 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Perlin
- Inks:
- Don Perlin
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- M-91
Content Information
- Synopsis:
- A man sees a reflection of himself in a mirror thirty years hence occupying a dingy room and resolves to change his destiny through acquiring money by crime. He is arrested and sentenced to life in jail where he realizes the mirror had displayed to him his jail cell.
Indexer Notes
Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.
Zeke, the Wonder
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Heck ?
- Inks:
- Don Heck ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- J-929
Content Information
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #29 (August 1956) [as "Zeke, the Wonder"]
Indexer Notes
Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.
A Piece of Rope!
comic story / 4 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Bob Forgione ?
- Inks:
- Jack Abel ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- M-26
Content Information
- Synopsis:
- A mountain climber is bothered by guilt when he cuts a rope securing him to his partner who fell, so he goes back to retrieve the body, only to find that his partner survived the fall. At this time, the rope that he been unable to remove from himself, drops off.
Indexer Notes
Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.
The Girl with the Evil Eyes!
comic story / 4 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Fred Kida ?
- Inks:
- Fred Kida ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- M-165
Content Information
- Synopsis:
- A man finds a voodoo amulet that is said to allow one to see into the future. He has a dream that his brother will introduce him to a woman he plans to marry, but the girl is evil and tries to seduce the other brother into killing his brother so that she can marry him and inherit the money. After he wakes up, the dream events play out in real life up to the point the man introduces the girl to his brother, but the story ends asking the reader what the brother should do.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #21 (March 1976)
Indexer Notes
Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.
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