Tales to Astonish 1959 #21 - 3.5 - $75.00
The mental essence of an alien bent on global conquest takes over a steam shovel and is defeated by an elephant.
A man's fascination with history leads him to build a time machine and travel to the past, but when he sees the dangers of time travel he destroys the machine and blueprints.
An infinite loop story about a monster who repeatedly steps out of a movie screen.
A dentist in 2030 discovers that his patient is a robot from Mars and calls the police. The Martian robot is stopped, and the dentist is relieved, since he wants nothing to stop the infiltration of Venusian robots like him.
Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. On-sale date from 1961 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
- Trull! The Inhuman! - Narrated in the first person. The story differs from others like it because the hero does not try to win the affection of the previously shrewish female, but instead gives her the cold shoulder at the end.
- Time Machine - Text story with illustration. Narrated in the first person.
- It Happened On "The Silent Screen" - Story credited to Stan Lee in issue #26 (December 1961). Stan must have wondered about the appeal of this type of story because he specifically asks for reader comment at the end of it.
- Open Wider, Please - Narrated in the first person.
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