Astonishing
#63
(August 1957)
Marvel,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- 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)
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 10¢ 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.
Piece of Rope!
cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bill Everett (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Everett (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
-
in Misterios del Gato Negro (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1953 series) #104 -
in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #10 (1962), #142 ([circa 1973 - 1974]), #179 ([circa 1978 - 1979]), #215 ([circa 1983 - 1984])
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Indexer Notes
Coloring credit confirmed by Goldberg.
A Tender Tale of Love
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Carl Wessler
- Pencils
- Richard Doxsee (signed)
- Inks
- Richard Doxsee (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- M-89
- 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.
- Reprints
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #10 (1962), #179 ([circa 1978 - 1979])
-
Indexer Notes
Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group. Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
The Secret Beyond Belief!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- George Woodbridge (signed)
- Inks
- George Woodbridge (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- M-135
- 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
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
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bob Forgione (signed)
- Inks
- Bob Forgione (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Rosen (sourced)
- Job Number
- M-124
- 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.
- Reprints
- in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #19
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #10 (1962), #179 ([circa 1978 - 1979])
-
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
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Don Perlin (signed)
- Inks
- Don Perlin (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- M-91
- 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.
- Reprints
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
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Don Heck ?
- Inks
- Don Heck ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- J-929
- Reprints
-
from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #29 (August 1956) [as "Zeke, the Wonder"] - in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #10 (1962)
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #12 (1963 ?)
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #33 (1968 ?), #195 ([circa 1988 - 1989])
-
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
- Job Number
- M-26
- 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.
- Reprints
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #10 (1962), #179 ([circa 1978 - 1979])
-
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
- Job Number
- M-165
- 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
Indexer Notes
Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Piece of Rope!
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1.
A Tender Tale of Love
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2.
The Secret Beyond Belief!
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3.
The Terrible Toy!
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4.
The Room That Wasn't There
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5.
Zeke, the Wonder
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6.
A Piece of Rope!
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7.
The Girl with the Evil Eyes!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Bill Borre
- Nick Caputo
- Mickey Coalwell
- Matthew Head
- Ethan Hoddes
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
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