Astonishing #10

(March 1952)

The Man Who Owned a Ghost! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Everett ?

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Bill Everett

Job Number

9491

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

A dead man summons a ghost to haunt his wife's house so her guests will leave and he can kill her, but she confesses to him that he is already dead because she killed him the previous evening and he realizes that the ghost he has summoned is his own.

Reprints

• in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #6 (October 1974)
• in Curse of the Weird (Marvel, 1993 series) #1 (December 1993)

Indexer Notes

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Time-Stream Rescue (Table of Contents: 2)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

? (illustration)

Inks

? (illustration)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

9685

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Harold Bevinson; Prof. Rall; Gen. George Washington (cameo)

Synopsis

A scientist and his friend build a time machine and witness several historical events, almost accidentally killing George Washington in the process.

Reprints

• in Journey into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1950 series) #23 (December 1953) [as "The First Time Machine"]
• in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #9 (May 1960)
which is reprinted
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([January] 2006)

Indexer Notes

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I Solved the Problem! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Mac L. Pakula (signed)

Inks

Mac L. Pakula (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

9503?

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Dr. Fell; Dr. Caldron

Synopsis

As the Earth is threatened by lack of food from overpopulation, Dr. Fell develops a plant which can grow very easily and provide food, but it grows so rapidly that it begins strangling out all human life.

Keywords

Majorca

Indexer Notes

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The Walking Dead! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Al Eadeh (signed)

Inks

Al Eadeh (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Joe Letterese

Job Number

9519

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

A scientist succeeds in reanimating the dead and then kills himself out of regret.

Reprints

• in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #31 (September 1974)
• in Book of the Dead (Marvel, 1993 series) #3 (February 1994)
• in Gespenster Geschichten (Bastei Verlag, 1974 series) #1086

Indexer Notes

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Melvin and the Martian (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Joe Sinnott (signed)

Inks

Joe Sinnott (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

9487

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Melvin; Aada

Synopsis

Aada is captured and the weak-willed Melvin seems to let him escape, but the ship Aada steals to return to Mars is actually a powerful h-bomb and it destroys the entire red planet.

Keywords

atomic bomb; Mars

Only an Insect! (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Pete Morisi (signed)

Inks

Pete Morisi (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

9483

Genre

horror-suspense; science fiction

Synopsis

A scientist's assistant who tortures insects for kicks gets his just deserts when he knocks over a shrinking compound which then affects him.

Reprints

• in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #14 (October 1974)

Indexer Notes

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