Tales to Astonish 1959 #14 - 3.0 - $20.00

A scientist's formula makes an ant giant and super-intelligent. The ant wants to conquer the world, but is killed by a giant ant-eater.

An old-fashioned shopkeeper unwittingly saves the life of a boy from Mechanica when her remedy oil lubricates the gears in his brain.

In a black magic book, a thief finds instructions for creating a time machine which runs on electricity, but after robbing people in the 18th century and attempting to return to the 20th, he realizes he is stuck in the past because there is no electricity in the 18th century.

A Martian is sent to Earth to kidnap a human scientist who has invented a weapon that Mars wants to use against Jupiter. The Martian is beaten by the scientist, who turns out to be a Jovian agent setting a trap to capture a live Martian.

Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements (pages 2, 9, 15, 19, 25, 27, 33-36 of comic including inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover); pages of comic not numbered. All new stories are narrated in the first person unless otherwise specified. On-sale date from 1960 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

• Krang! - Steve Ditko (in letter to Chris Boyko, 6 December 2014) stated that he does not know who inked the cover and did not do any work on this cover. Nick Caputo believes Ditko is mistaken as the inking correlates exactly to his concurrent inking on his own stories and over other Kirby covers in this period. Nick also suspects that Ditko added the three figures crawling on Krang.
• I Created Krang! The Most Fantastic Monster The World Has Ever Known!, Chapter One - This is one of the first two 'feature-length' (13 page) monster stories published by Marvel (the other was "I Was the Slave of the Living Hulk!" published simultaneously in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #62). Three months later, two-part, 13(and occasionally 18 page) stories would headline all four Marvel SF anthologies. The following year a fifth title (Amazing Adventures, 1961 series)would follow the format. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 3-7, 10-11 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 7).
• Krang!: Chapter Two - Story is pages 12-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 8 to 13).
• The Remedy Oil - Text story with two illustrations. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
• Behold! I Am the Master of Time! - Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. This story is retold in issue #29 (March 1962) as "What Happened to Harry?" drawn by Dick Ayers. Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
• The Thing in Human Form! - Narrated in the third person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).